Now Wunderpark International School is a bilingual primary school, which started, as the EDDE award tells us, “as a children's studio, which was opened in 2013 by the wife of billionaire Alexei Mordashov Marina, 23 kilometers along the Novorizhskoe highway”. The studio has grown into an elementary school located behind the fence of the Pavlovskaya Sloboda cottage village: it is housed in a spacious traditional-style building with many pitched roofs, and suffice it to say about the status of the institution, for example, in the first picture that is found on the network, we see helipad, and training costs this much. Meanwhile, for New Riga, not far from Moscow, this is rather a rule, there are a lot of expensive villages here and, presumably, there is demand.
The natural next step for a successful developing educational institution is the construction of a secondary school for 200 students on the Istra coast, north of the village of Knyazhie Ozero between the coast and Molodezhnaya Street, which provides excellent transport accessibility.
It was decided to build the school building modern and according to the latest developments in the design of modern schools, the concept was developed by the Archstruktura bureau of Anton Nagavitsin.
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zooming 1/3 View from the river. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 2/3 Wunderpark School © Archstruktura
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zooming 3/3 Wunderpark School © Archstruktura
The heart of the school is the atrium, which unites five "rays" of functional blocks. In the center of it there is an amphitheater with a support in the form of the letter W - Wunderpark, below it is a dressing room. On the ground floor, three "beams" adjoining the atrium are reduced to "petals": they house drawing, music and a universal studio. Sliding partitions allow transforming this space, adjusting it for different purposes: for performances, graduation balls, film screenings. But most of the time, the atrium is a place for socializing and relaxing during breaks.
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zooming 1/5 Atrium. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 2/5 Scenario for the transformation of the atrium: performance. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 3/5 Scenario for the transformation of the atrium: recreation. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 4/5 Scenario for the transformation of the atrium: the prom. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 5/5 Amphitheater. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
The longest beam houses the dining room on the first floor and the gym on the second. The entire next wide beam is the elementary school, with playrooms, speech therapist and psychologist offices, workshops, and an extended day group. Three beams above the "petals" - high school classrooms and classrooms.
The space, thus, turned out to be multi-level, similar to the urban one. There is the main square, and there are streets, walking along which you can observe different types and activities: you can go through the library, look, like in a showcase, into the window of the teachers' room, from the upper rows of the amphitheater to watch the work of the painting class, go in for a bite to eat.
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zooming 1/6 Axonometry 1st floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 2/6 Axonometry 2nd floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 3/6 Axonometry 3rd floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 4/6 Plan of the 1st floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 5/6 Plan of the 2nd floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 6/6 Plan of the 3rd floor. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
If the internal organization of a building is entirely subordinate to the structure of school life, then outside it reacts more to the environment - the relief, the river, the natural naturalness of the place. Architects use natural materials - brick, concrete, glass, wood - "which do not imitate anything, reflect the essence of their work in the structure of the building." Curved planes of stained-glass windows repeat the plasticity of the relief.
The two largest "beams" are turned towards the road and are connected by a smooth bend, forming the main facade with a wide portal. A stadium will be built next to the school and safe pedestrian traffic will be organized.
The opening is scheduled for September 1, 2020.
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zooming 1/3 General plan. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
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zooming 2/3 Wunderpark School © Archstruktura
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zooming 3/3 Seasonal practice areas. School Wunderpark © Archstruktura / provided by PR-studio "PEOPLE"
