The new college preparatory high school in Diedorf is to be a wood-construction »plus energy« building, which means the school for some 930 students will generate more energy than it uses. At the same time, a pedagogical architecture with »open learning landscapes«, is intended to support the use of new learning concepts. A new type of wood-concrete composite floor system will improve the heating capacity and the sound insulation, and so aid in creating an optimal »sound curtain« for all learning situations. A central ventilation system with a highly effective heat- and moisture recovery mechanism, an air-conditioning system which works by means of evaporative cooling and thus uses less electricity, and optimal daylight utilization will guarantee good learning conditions and save energy at the same time – as will the highly-insulated building envelope. Energy will be generated by a photovoltaic system and a wood pellet boiler, so that the renewable energy sources sunlight and wood may be used.
The decision for wood construction will not only enable the use of renewable raw materials, but will also result in a relatively short building time: due to a high degree of prefabrication, major portions of the building process will take place in a weather-protected environment and thus free from interruption. In order to validate the achievement of these goals within the planned ecological and economic framework, the construction phase beginning in 2013 will be accompanied by a two-year concurrently-running monitoring process.
Project Operation:
Landkreis Augsburg
Prinzregentenplatz 4
86150 Augsburg
Telefon 0821 3102-0
poststelle@lra-a.bayern.de
www.landkreis-augsburg.de
Project Coordination:
kplan AG
Aktiengesellschaft für Projektentwicklung und Gesamtplanung,
Abensberg
www.kplan.de
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Architekten Florian Nagler Architekten GmbH,
München
www.nagler-architekten.de
Architekten Hermann Kaufmann ZT GmbH,
Schwarzach (Österreich)
www.hermann-kaufmann.at
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