Lehtikangas Elementary School | Alt Architects
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The first thing one sees when approaching the Lehtikangas Elementary School is a canyon-like space built with grey brick robust and distinguished, yet inviting. As one steps inside the meandering gorge, it transforms into a functional core, a common restaurant space, that is the center of the building and its architectural highlight. The see-through, organically flowing space invites the visitors to wander into the building.
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Lehtikangas multifunctional building houses a school, a regional library and a kindergarten. The new building replaces a school that previously stood on the site and combines some of the other public functions of the area. Its architecture stems from the interplay between two rational halves divided by a free-form gorge-like opening. Courtesy of Alt Architects – Model
The library near the entrance supports independent information gathering.Visitors and Library goers are welcome into the public parts of the building as well ? comfy sofas beguile visitors to linger for a while and study the collection at their leisure. North of the gorge is the primary and upper comprehensive schools.
Courtesy of Alt Architects – Photographs : Ville Pekka Ikola / alt
On the southern side are the kindergarten, auxiliary spaces, and facilities for physical education, as well as wood and metalworking shops. Combining and grouping th...
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