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Gloggnitz School Center in Austria
30 Jun 2020
Gloggnitz School Center
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Location: Gloggnitz, Austria

photo © Hertha Hurnaus
Gloggnitz is a municipality with 6000 inhabitants. 80 km southwest of Vienna, it lies very picturesquely at the foot of the Rax in the Austrian Prealps. Gloggnitz is an industrial town and regional center, which like all rural communities must struggle with a dying village center. Therefore, the small town decided to bundle its 3 so far separate schools (elementary school, new middle school, special educational center) in the Schulgasse in an attractive, common new building and to strengthen so the location. Two existing buildings were demolished in order to give the new building the greatest possible presence in the town center. This decision is a clear commitment of the municipality to education and youth, which makes Gloggnitz in the future also for young families more attractive.

photo © David Boureau
2015 the municipality announced a competition for the Gloggnitz School Center – a contemporary, future-capable school center, whose educational guidance motive is the co-operation, the exchange between pupils, teachers and parents, as well as the mutual support and assistance.
The school center offers special teaching units: a music school, a training workshop equipped with workbenches, a well-equipped teac...