The New School Campus in Allmend offers a coherent learning landscape shaped by structure, material and nature. Two compact volumes extend the existing urban grid into a sequence of interconnected outdoor spaces.  Flexible learning clusters are organised within a clear structural grid, allowing open, adaptable floor plans. Generous balconies and shared spaces blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, bringing learning closer to nature.

The sequence begins with a four-storey school building accommodating all shared facilities. Set slightly further back is a three-storey kindergarten building. Both buildings are articulated by precisely positioned recesses at their corners, creating sheltered outdoor classrooms and framed views towards the surrounding landscape and Lake Zurich.

A prefabricated timber skeleton combined with load-bearing rammed earth vaulted ceilings defines the building character. The interplay of exposed timber, textured earth and a carefully articulated façade creates a warm, robust and sustainable learning environment.

The project’s guiding principle is to use as little technological equipment as possible, only as much as necessary. This results in durable, robust, and resource-efficient buildings with high spatial quality and great adaptability for future generations.