GATCHINA, RUSSIA
School
A general education institution with a capacity of 825 students
Awards for the project:

Silver diploma of the international competition “Golden Trezzini” in the category “Best implemented project of a public building or structure”

Школа в Гатчине, Красивая школа, архитектура, БИП, BIP, БалтИнвест-проект
The first school designed by our team. Looking back, we realize what a step forward we took thanks to this project, and with what enthusiasm and anxiety we went through all the stages of developing this facility. Getting acquainted with new ideas, selecting the most successful design solutions, and ultimately — a holistic and harmonious project — the result of enormous work not only by architects, but also by designers, engineers, technologists, and specialists in fire safety, insolation, and acoustics. Due to the lack of our own developed analogues, we tried to take everything into account from scratch.
Школа в Гатчине, Красивая школа, архитектура, БИП, BIP, БалтИнвест-проект
To enhance the architectural expressiveness of the facades, it was decided to develop several combinations of plaster and curtain wall facades. Yellow facade panels emphasize the protruding volumes of the stairwells, with dark gray inserts that unite the windows into a single rhythm. The main entrance group is accentuated by a vertical red stripe running from the first to the third floor. In contrast to the clean lines of the rest of the building, the volume of the sports hall is designed using facade panels with a wood texture and stained‑glass windows of varying heights, featuring yellow decorative casings.
The stepped shape of the sloping roof of the large sports hall adds extra dynamism to the facades.

The building’s layout was created using the “rays” of two four‑storey blocks of educational buildings and a block of the sports hall, which are united at the intersection by the atrium space.

This shape ensured the best functional and lighting characteristics of the rooms. Thanks to it, an unofficial name for the project — “Y‑school” — took root firmly within our team.
The building is 4‑storey and has the following parameters:

− the total area of the building is 16,690 m²;

− the construction volume of the building is 76,246 m³;

− the height of the building is 21.035 m;

− the floor height is 1.57 m;

− the building footprint area is 4,587 m².
Школа в Гатчине, Красивая школа, архитектура, БИП, BIP, БалтИнвест-проект