Renovation with conversion and extension Neues Gymnasium Nürnberg

Project description

The Neue Gymnasium Nürnberg (NGN) is to be expanded from its current 23 classes to a 4.5-form grammar school (3 humanities/language classes and 1.5 music classes) with 41 classes for approx. 1,025 pupils and approx. 100 teachers. The all-day area will be designed that around 20% of pupils can be looked after there. 

The two existing buildings, the main building and the gymnasiums, are listed buildings and will be preserved. The existing main building will be dismantled around the two towers and the 1977 extension so that the room program can be accommodated on the site. The gymnasiums will be gutted and converted into an “art house” with theater, art rooms, workroom and library as a house-in-house solution. The specialist classes and the lower school area will each be housed in a new building. Sports areas and a kitchen-cafeteria as well as a counseling center will be created for joint use in the area of the Martin-Behaim-Gymnasium. The old janitor's house (mold infestation), the detached pavilion and the changing room/outdoor sports building will be demolished. Until the new areas in the lower school building are completed, the changing rooms and sanitary facilities in the sports caretaker's house will be housed in interim containers together with the replacement classrooms in the pavilion to be demolished. In the area of the existing bicycle parking spaces on the sports field, a small single-storey structure will be built for field maintenance and sports equipment with a partial roof over the new bicycle parking spaces.

The first construction phase consists of the new construction of the specialist classroom building with the chemistry, biology and physics areas along Weddigenstraße, the new construction of the lower school building with lower school, learning landscapes, changing rooms, outdoor sports and lower school library in the east of the property and the conversion of the gymnasiums with a “house-in-house solution” to accommodate the art rooms, workroom, multi-purpose room, theater room, photo lab, IT training room and upper school library to form the new art building.

The second construction phase includes the general refurbishment of the listed main building with the demolition work and the refurbishment of the IZBB with conversion into an all-day area with a school café.

As part of the project, the Fischbach stream adjacent to the NGN building site will be renaturalized.