Ground-breaking ceremony for a primary school with daycare facility and indoor swimming pool in Frankfurt-Riedberg

In the north of Frankfurt, the new residential district of Frank­furt-Riedberg is currently under construction; in the long term, it will provide living space and facilities for around 15.000 inhabitants.

The construction of the second primary school in the district officially began with a ground-breaking ceremony on 27th March in the presence of Sarah Sor­ge, head of Frankfurt’s Education Department, and Fried­helm Flug, Managing Director of the urban development company HA Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH.

The school forms part of a building complex that also includes a daycare center, a hall for school sports and an indoor swimming pool. The primary school will accommodate around 420 children in four classes per grade level. The daycare center, designed for children from 0 to 6 years, completes the range of educational and child care services.

The three long buildings, each a maximum of two floors high, were designed by MGF Architekten GmbH. They are grouped around a schoolyard with facilities for outdoor sports to form a small campus. All the buildings are made of concrete and comply with the specifications for passive buildings. Design features include arcades which provide external access to the upper floors.

KREBS+KIEFER Darmstadt was responsible for checking the structural design of the entire complex and for construction supervision. The checking engineer was Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Günter Ernst.