Herbert Hoover School in Berlin’s Wedding district has a special focus on theatre; this is why the teachers and students wanted an outdoor stage. The project began with a concept week in which various school classes worked on this topic. A small group of students from different classes then developed a design for the stage construction. The project week programme also included an excursion, constructing a model, surveying the school yard and experiments on the site of the future stage.We developed the construction plan from the preliminary design and in 2015, the first construction phase began. The stage was built together with the students over a two-weeks period. There was a ’topping out’ ceremony with theatre performances and then the students took over the stage as a place to chill out at breaktime. During the second construction phase in 2016, wooden platforms were built to create audience seating.
Students exchange ideas
Children help with the construction
Illustration
Model of a student’s idea
Stage in use
Students on the stage
Open-air theatre in the school yard
Students on the stage
The stage from above
Wooden seating platforms
Landscape Architecture: Gruppe F
Other designers involved in the design of landscape: Bauereignis
Project Location: Pankstraße 18, Mitte District Administration, Berlin, Germany
Design year: 2014
Year Built: 2016
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