Marie Curie High School

In the municipality of Dallgow-Döberitz on the outskirts of Berlin, the issue of urbanity and densification was put into practice on a property situated at the transition from town to open landscape. The small-scale structure of the adjacent building development presented a particular challenge in terms of the scale of the large educational institution. A common platform joins the two L-form classroom wings, in the middle of which are the central common areas for communicative and social activities: a ground-level inner courtyard and an elevated recreation deck on the roof of the gymnasium, which is recessed into the slope. Various lines of sight create visual connections between the school’s different spaces – the interior with the exterior, the school from the elevated perspective of the recreation deck with the adjacent neighbourhood and the Brandenburg landscape.