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School for 1st - 8th grade
Zagreb outskirts
2006





The competition brief asked for a school building that accommodates 600 children in a two-shift system.

The proposed compact building has an entrance hall accessible from two neighborhoods served by this school.

The school‘s structure is steel with colored metal clad panels and exterior braces for lateral forces that can be high in this area.

Social functions are on the top floor so that the children can see and be seen from the neighborhood.















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 1 multifunctional space
2 teachers room
3 headmasters room
4 computer room
5 library
6 dining room
7 service elevator
8 dining terrace
9 terrace with glass pavers
10 voids above corridor below
third floor


1 void above sports hall
2 gallery to sports hall
3 gallery to entrance hall with elevators
4 restroom and storage
5 5th - 8th grade classrooms
6 1st - 4th grade classroom
7 corridor with opening to corridor below
8 service elevator
9 ring gallery with shading panels
second floor


1 entrance porch
2 windbreak
3 entrance hall
4 gathering space for visitors
5 void above sports hall
6 restrooms
7 cloakrooms
8 5th - 8th grade classrooms
9 1st - 4th grade classrooms
10 corridor with benches in the middle

ground/first floor

 11 service elevator

1 two part dividable sports hall
2 telescopic bleachers
3 services
4 storage
5 diagnostics and measurements
6 changing rooms
7 "dirty" corridor
8 "clean" corridor
9 practice hall
10 kitchen and service yard
basement



1 entrance from Sopnica neighborhood
2 entrance from Retkovica neighborhood
3 new bridge over Sopnica sping
4 access road to parking and service yard
5 1.6 m high masonry wall
6 service yard at basement level
7 play area during pick up time
8 jumping truck
9 75 m running truck
10 jungle gym
11 school park with artificial hill
12 pavilion
13 school plaza
14 benches for waiting and resting
15 flower beds
16 bicycle stands
17 outdoor little soccer field
18 interior entrance
19 interior sports hall
20 visitors gathering space for sports hall
21 classrooms' corridors
22 outdoor classrooms
site plan, with existing building
 site plan, after existing building has been removed

site plan


view from visitor's space
elevation NE


elevation SW
elevation NW


elevation SE


view of entrance hall

view from classroom corridor view from the north corner of soccer field


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Credits:
Design: Zoka Zola
Paolo Dalla Tor, Adi Kohn, Jerico Prater, Dorothea Schulz, Zenovia Toloudi