New construction of boarding school Försterschule, Lyss

The project
The architects did not prescribe how the 4 residential buildings for 100 students are constructed, but only what requirements they had to meet. The rest - creative performance competition. An unusual method and also not quite fair. Because good ideas are not paid, although the effort is enormous. In the end, the project was carried out in a wooden element construction system. The element size is matched to each room; a measure for better sound insulation between the rooms. The balconies are suspended from the outside with steel rods on single or double girders.

The construction method
Horizontal wood-based panels on each floor transfer the horizontal forces into the walls. Wind forces are dissipated into the foundation via planking on both sides of the exterior walls with gypsum fiberboard. The efficiency of the series was impressively demonstrated here. Thus, of the 104 x occurring wall type, 2 pieces were produced on the first day, and 12 pieces on the last day. The assembly time was also different. The assembly of the 4 identical buildings took 15 days for the first one, and 6.5 days for the last one. Publications: DETAIL Magazine for Architecture + Building Detail 7/1997German Building Magazine DBZ 9/1997Hochparterre Extended Offprint from HP 4/1997Brochure International Forester School, HFF Lyss 1999