How can a school feel spacious and green in a big city, while making students feel independent as well as protected?
Branching out aims to materialize these contradictions for the students and educators who will spend their days on the Albert-Gutzmann Campus in Wedding, Berlin.
Layers of school restructuring have left their mark on the existing campus, draining open spaces of the lush x potentials and reducing the quality of spaces available to students. The school buildings are all ripe for major renovations, just in time to redesign spaces to support the school’s growing specialization in educating students on the autism spectrum, cohabiting with the spatial qualities and materiality of wooden structures.
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