The new Havel inclusive primary school was designed by the architecture studios Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos and Magén Arquitectos a town in the Spandau district on the outskirts of the city of Berlin The area where the project is located is characterized by its industrial activity and its canals close to the Havel River The proposal proposes a primary school with an integration program for special education students and a sports hall for independent use from the center The project follows a continuous layout but is divided into two volumes corresponding to the uses of classrooms and pavilion concentrating on the western area of ​​the plot creating an open courtyard but protected from the street.  The studios Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos and Magén Arquitectos introduced a single-storey volume to unify the two volumes that correspond to the uses of classroom and pavilion turning the building into a sculptural ensemble The rectangular primary school has its programme distributed over three floors and is located on the edge of the plot The volume of the pavilion moves away from the edge of the street turning with respect to the axis of the school creating a plaza that acts as the main access to the buildings and exterior spaces of the project the colour black is used on the ground floor differentiating it from the rest of the white-grey brick façade The façades of the school are structured thanks to the large windows projected in grouped horizontal bands that adapt to the interior uses The façades of the pavilion use the same brick cladding as in the school introducing a zinc sheet cladding in the upper area Havel primary school by Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos + Magén Arquitectos Project description by Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos + Magén Arquitectos The inclusive primary school with sports hall is located at the intersection of Goltzstrasse and Mertensstrasse in the Hakenfelde district of Spandau This is an area with industrial uses and canals close to the Havel river an urban project called “Wasserstadt Berlin-Oberhavel” was developed which sought to combine residential and mixed use as well as public facilities The project develops a Line 4 primary school – with 1st to 6th grades – with integration of inclusive special education students; a Sports Hall which can be used independently of the school; and the urbanization of outdoor spaces The built volume is concentrated on the west side of the plot thus creating a large open playground inside the plot The building is designed as a continuous building corresponding to the classroom and sports hall uses articulated by the porch and the entrance hall The volume of the primary school is designed as a three-storey located directly along the edge of the Goltzstrasse building and occupying the urban space The smaller volume of the sports hall is also rectangular but it is set back from the street and rotates in relation to the school creating an open square facing the street where the main entrances and access routes to the buildings and the exterior spaces of the school are located The rotation of the sports hall reflects the directional references existing in the surroundings: the Maselake Canal the layout of Mertensstrasse and the green areas of the Pepitahöfe residential area acting as a hinge between both public spaces links the green area located at the end of the canal with the boulevard of the residential area The volumes of the sports hall and the school are connected by a single-storey volume that mediates between the different spatial references and transforms the mass of the building into a cubic sculptural ensemble The rotundity of the building's volume is accentuated by the white-grey facing bricks The plinth of the school building is distinguished from the rest of the Klinker façade by its anthracite black colour and by the relief in the form of horizontal brick bands The façade of the classroom building is structured by the large-format windows of the classrooms subdivided vertically and whose format can also be easily adapted to other uses (administration these windows project in grouped horizontal bands the Klinker cladding continues in the form of a lattice in front of the windows The same white-grey brick cladding as on the upper floors of the school was used on the base of the sports hall while zinc sheet cladding was used on the upper part of the hall Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos + Magén Arquitectos Gardening.- Laura Jeschke Landscape planning.Structure.- Ruffert Ingenieure.Installations.- Ingenieurbüro Thomas.Acoustic conditioning.- Akustiklabor Berlin.Thermal envelope and acoustic insulation.- Müller bbM.Connections.- Horn & Müller.Construction management.- aim-Architekten.Fire prevention.- KLW Ingenieure Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen Tjark Spille. Sulitze Muñoz Arquitectos is a Spanish-German architectural studio with projects and works in different countries in Europe founded in 2011 by Holger Sulitze and David Muñoz The studio has participated in projects and works of different scales and typologies the studio has participated in retail projects for different brands and in rehabilitation conditioning and fit-out projects for offices of various sizes The hotel portfolio includes more than 25 hotels an original hotel concept that forms the most exclusive and disruptive segment of the NH Hotels chain the studio has a long list of works for public bodies both Spanish and German such as the German Archaeological Institute or the Goethe Institute The firm's educational programme is particularly important in its work the first prize was awarded to the Goltz-Mertensstraße Primary School in Berlin Archive Architecture This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page By 2020-10-06T05:00:00+01:00 GERMANY: Deusche Bahn has started work on reinstatement of the 4·5 km Berlin S-Bahn branch to Siemensstadt which has been disused for around 40 years the so-called Siemensbahn diverged from the circular Ringbahn at Jungfernheide and ran north over the River Spree to Wernerwerk and the viaduct carrying the line over the river was subsequently demolished The Berlin Senate voted to support reactivation of the line after Siemens AG announced in 2018 that it was planning to develop a research campus and 3 000 homes on its former factory site DB and the city signed an agreement in June 2019 to fund a feasibility study to assess what work would be required The first section of the branch from Jungfernheide to Gartenfeld is scheduled to reopen in 2026 with the remaining section to Hakenfelde expected to follow by 2029 as part of Berlin’s i2030 expansion project ‘The Siemensbahn is one of the most exciting lines within the i2030 project’ ‘It is not only important for the Siemensstadt 2.0 development but also provides a perspective for the wider Spandau residential area We are strengthening the attractiveness of environmentally and climate-friendly transport modes that metropolises urgently need in order to remain livable.’ DB Board Member for Infrastructure Ronald Pofalla added that the project ‘shows that we are seriously interested in revitalising disused railway lines the Land of Berlin and DB have agreed that this line is important for public transport GERMANY: The Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen has confirmed €17m of funding to enable the introduction of a passenger service on the 10 km Niederrheinbahn route between Moers and Kamp-Lintfort from 2026 the third largest German town without a rail connection GERMANY: The Marburg-Biedenkopf local authority has commissioned consultancy Ederlog to study the potential reopening of the Ohmtalbahn GERMANY: The Länder of Berlin and Brandenburg have signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn to finance studies for a project to increase capacity on the 23 km Spandau – Nauen section of the Berlin – Hamburg corridor including a proposed extension of the Berlin S-Bahn to Finkenkrug Site powered by Webvision Cloud