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Gjerdrum Secondary School

Gjerdrum Secondary School, Gjerdrum, Competition, 1st prize The National Building Quality Award “Best building of the year”, 2010

Gjerdrum Secondary School won the prestigious National Building Quality Award for 2010. From the Jury Report: ”Gjerdrum Secondary School represents an innovative attitude as a learning-arena and meeting place. The building contributes to a successful demonstration of how contemporary architectural expression can renew itself”. The building’s exterior makes use of abstract forms. With a low volume of just one-floor and a tilted granite-façade to the south, - also to be used as grandstand for the sport fields with its integrated seating - the building appears as a constructed “plateau” in the landscape. The additional facades are precise compositions of colorful surfaces and windows which enhance the building’s horizontal character. The roof surface’s potential as a fifth façade is realized through a clear geometric main form and sculptured ventilation-towers in coloured glass. With short distances and close to no corridors, the plan provides an environment with efficient solutions, -as it invites to activity and use. The combination of generous, open areas and rooms as separate volumes – “houses” within the larger structure - create a dynamic and spacious environment. Some of the rooms are “Inverse”: outdoor-atriums cut out of the building mass, that allow daylight to penetrate deep into the building. The main entrance leads into a circular open schoolyard atrium in the centre of the building structure. Different parts of the school can be closed to create spaces that can be used separately at night time. Outdoor areas of different qualities, both urban and green – contrast and supplement each other. Both outdoor and indoor the school is universally designed for disabled. The sustainability quality is of highest rate.

Gjerdrum Secondary School

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  • Gjerdrum Municipality, Norway
  • Kristin Jarmund Architects

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