School for Curative Pedagogy HPT Biel, extension and total refurbishment 2015-2017

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Architects: bauzeit architekten

Location: Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Area: 5536.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Yves André

Architecture: bauzeit architekten, Biel-Bienne

Site Management: bauzeit architekten, Biel-Bienne

Artistic Design And Signalling: Susanne Dubs, Magglingen

Collaboration (Architect Of The Building 1974): Georg Habermann (former Andry&Habermann)

Structural Engineer: Tschopp Ingenieure GmbH/ Ignaczewski, Bern

Building Services / Building Physics: enerconom AG, Solothurn
Landscape Architecture: bauzeit architekten, Biel-Bienne

Client: Stiftung Heilpädagogische Tagesschule Biel

© Yves André

School for Curative Pedagogy HPT Biel, extension and total refurbishment 2015-2017 The school for curative pedagogy HPT Biel is a special school for children aged 4 to 18 years who need a special learning environment due to their mental and/or physical disabilities. With 116 children, it is one of the three largest special schools in the canton?s Bern. The school building from 1974 has been extended on three sides. The extensions are based on the existing basic grid of equilateral triangles.

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