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Text in German. When the synod of the Westphalian Evangelical
Church made the decision to build the school in about 20 years ago,
this was accompanied by a large number of hopes and desires that -
formulated as a commission - were expressed in the foundation stone
document that was walled up when building started in 1997. It runs
like this: "The Evangelical Church of Westphalia, by establishing
the comprehensive school in a district with particular need for
renewal would like to set a sign of hope and help to prepare young
people to deal with the urgent problems of our day. For this reason
the school's educational work will focus on the following three
points: the school should be a meeting-place, making it possible
for young people coming from various nations and practicing
different religions to live together peacefully; the school is to
be an ecological place of learning, and enable young people to look
after the creation that has been entrusted to mankind; and the
school should open up to the district in which it is sited, and
become a cultural centre. "The architects conceived the school as a
little town, with the key aims of achieving diversity,
sophistication and responsibility taken on by the users themselves.
Hence the individual sections were all planned independently by
colleagues of Peter Hubner and his plus+ bauplanung practice, with
active participation by all the pupils involved. As the building
was for a new foundation, it was possible to involve a whole year
consisting of 130 pupils in planning and designing their own
teaching area throughout the six-year building phase. Each year has
a housing group, and each of the five classes has its own house
inside it. Each house has its own entrance, its own cloakroom with
toilets attached, a large gallery, a terrace and a garden. The book
shows the entire process from developing the educational programme
via the competition, planning and realisation including the
participation processes to the everyday running of the school. It
is a must for anyone interested in new educational concepts.
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