Campus Rauner

The old Rauner primary school from the 1960s, a sprawling conglomerate of pitched-roof buildings and corridors, was largely demolished. In its place, a compact new building was constructed, which opened in 2018 with Learning House 1 for the Rauner Community School. This was followed in 2021 by Lernhaus 2 for the Teck secondary school, while the remaining existing buildings in the south of the campus were renovated.

The rooms are not designed for frontal teaching, but encourage a variety of learning methods. Three to four large learning and course rooms each form a cluster, supplemented by smaller, shared differentiation rooms with individual workstations and group tables for four to eight pupils. A spacious corridor connects the learning rooms and can be used as a multifunctional learning zone. It also offers views of the green atrium or the northern schoolyard.

The concrete surfaces of the new buildings look like conventional exposed concrete surfaces, but 6,000 m³ of recycled concrete, 30% of which was recycled construction waste, was used here. The use of recycled concrete has been mandatory for public construction projects in Kirchheim since 2014. To ensure that the surfaces remain uniform, the grain size of the recycled material must not be larger than 16 mm. The recycled concrete was obtained entirely from the demolished part of the school. The Heinrich Feeß company carried out the demolition and produced the recycled concrete for the new building directly from the demolished materials. Since 2023, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment has been supporting the use of recycled concrete with a funding programme.