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News • News • 16 Feb 2022
KAAN Architecten complete a building for people and dedicated to the Earth
Located on a hill overlooking the valley and the city of Tübingen, the Geo- and Environmental Centre (GUZ), is part of a southern expansion at Morgenstelle Campus (Eberhard Karls University). The expansion brings together the previously scattered departments of the Earth Sciences Faculty and the Institute for Ground Water in a manner that fosters exchange between individual departments in the building and other natural sciences faculties located nearby. Designed by KAAN Architecten, the project is the result of an international competition.
Brigida Gonzalez
With a total height of six storeys and a 100 x 50 m footprint, the low and elongated volume of the building is partly recessed into the sloping site with the form enclosing tw... More
Project • By S4A | Space4Architecture • Primary Schools
New Losbates School
The new Losbates school is an opportunity to give the community of Louňovice, Štíhlice, Babice, Thovec and Svojetice a new magnet center for social interaction, where learning, arts and sports share common grounds in a dynamic and interactive way.
The organic shapes of both the individual function volumes as well as the central ring connecting them, allows for flawless circulation, guaranteeing inclusiveness of all parts into a single, new cultural hub.
Here the library, with its central courtyard, becomes the center and focal point around which the school, auditorium, gym, cafeteria, and art school revolve.The circular volumes, which individually enclose one or more functions, not only negate the front-back hierarchy of mos... More