A wood campus for Baar
04.06.2020
The Wiesental school in the canton of Zug is being adapted to today's needs with a replacement building. The new school building will one day accommodate 560 children. Timbatec is responsible for the statics and fire protection of the wooden building planned by the architectural firm Penzisbettini.
A competition was held at the end of 2018 to find a suitable for the new replacement building on the existing site of the Wiesental school in Baar. Baar was sought. "Domino" is the name of the winning project. The design of the school complex consisting of four buildings was designed by the architectural firm Penzisbettini from Zurich. Timbatec already supported the architects during the competition phase with their know-how in the field of fire protection and statics. Today we are to be involved in the project as a specialist planner.Construction of the first construction of the first stage is scheduled to start in 2022. parts of the building to the Minergie-P-Eco standard will be put into operation.
The school building complex consists of four buildings. The east building is particularly exciting, with the gymnasium in the basement and the classrooms above. and the classrooms above.
The south and west buildings are each two-story wooden buildings with a reinforced concrete basement. In these buildings contain the school rooms, the canteen, a janitor's apartment and technical and technical rooms. The auditorium and the media center are located in the one-story and slightly recessed north building.
The main building east is 96 meters long and 28 meters wide. meters wide. The two basement floors made of reinforced concrete contain the technical equipment, a gymnasium and the underground parking garage. Above this are three floors of wood for for school operations. Above the triple gymnasium there is a two-story truss spans the triple gymnasium as a supporting structure. This will be one of the largest wooden trusses ever built in Switzerland.
The primary structure (blue) spans the gymnasium with a width of gymnasium with a width of around 33 meters.
Wood - the right building material for school buildings
Today, school buildings are built of wood. The
school in Wiesental is a good example of how this is possible and makes
educational buildings is possible and makes sense. Wood is a naturally renewable raw material that requires only solar energy and water for its production.
only solar energy and water for its production. Harvesting and processing
are carried out with very little energy, and the material also stores CO2. One
cubic meter of wood relieves the atmosphere of around one ton of this greenhouse gas. Because:
Thanks to photosynthesis, trees convert CO2 into oxygen and carbon as they grow.
carbon.
Wooden buildings are not only more ecological, but are usually also completed more quickly. Thanks to the high degree of prefabrication, even large projects grow quickly and are available to the available to students sooner than comparable projects made from other building materials. Today, progressive communities build their school buildings from wood.