Signal-red and authentically wooden
Junior Traffic School in Stuttgart by ASP Architekten
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With their new building by Stuttgart’s Westbahnhof railway station, ASP Architekten combine dynamic shapes and vivid colours with an authentic material impression. The Junior Traffic School in Vogelsang replaces the first facility of its kind in Germany, which was created in 1953 at Diakonissenplatz, which is closer to the city centre.
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The architects have responded to the heterogeneous environment of building-materials shops, various club headquarters, a residential road and densely encroaching forested area with a single-storey wooden building whose long facades and roof symbolize movement with a constant interplay of ascending and descending diagonals.
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The facade formwork of pre-greyed larch set at a 45-degree angle accentuates the dynamic impression. Recesses in the facade and a passageway through the building – it leads to the parking lot and allows emergency vehicles to access the facility – stand out from the wooden building facade in signal red.
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Altogether, the Junior Traffic School covers 500 m² of net area and is divided into four sections. A spacious lobby with cloakrooms and seating, as well as a classroom and sanitary spaces, are available to the children. The police officers stationed at the school have their own area with an office, kitchenette, dressing rooms and a wooden terrace that juts from the southeast side of the building. This spatial program is completed with a workshop, a storage room, a bicycle room, a drying room for wet clothes and a first-aid room.
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Continuous, authentic and pure: these were the architects’ guiding principles for the indoor materials. An insulated exposed-concrete floor slab with an oiled and polished screed of hard aggregate with no further floor covering serves as a foundation for the wooden structure. The walls and hollow-box ceilings are clad with oiled spruce panels in a semi-gloss finish. On the ceilings, these have been perforated for the sake of better indoor acoustics, as have the ceilings in the cloakroom area, where the holes serve as holders for wooden pegs that the children playfully reposition in order to hang up their clothes.
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The traffic course located on the north side of the new building is where young users can not only practice following the rules of the road, but also learn to control their own wheels. Apart from asphalt stretches, this course also features areas with sand, gravel and cobblestones as well as a railway line that must be crossed.
Architecture: asp Architekten
Client: Amt für Liegenschaften und Wohnen, vertreten durch das Hochbauamt Stuttgart
Location: Unter dem Birkenkopf 30, 70197 Stuttgart (DE)
Structural engineering: w-hp Ingenieure
Landscape architecture: gla | gessweinlandschaftsarchitekten
Building services engineering: HE plantechnik
Timber construction: Holzbau Schaible
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