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The problems with the two buildings intended for pupils’ accommodation stemmed, to start with, from their ground plan: it was dominated by central corridors extending throughout their entire length and accessed by two staircases each. This spatial configuration, at first sight unfavourably reminiscent of barracks architecture, needed to be broken up. As the individual rooms were too deep, we shortened each of them by means of a short hallway. We then fitted a wet area, a kitchen and a dining area into the space now freed up in the original hallway. In so doing, that enabled us to connect two apartments to one staircase. Because of the façade’s strict rhythm, and in the interest of getting enough light, some of the rooms are configured on a slant. Large apertures were cut into the walls between the new hallways and the kitchens and dining rooms, making it possible to view into the rooms.
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