The smart ones learn in the garden

An outstanding example of this innovative learning environment is the wooden Barcelona Pavilion. This wooden pavilion will serve as an open-air classroom for many pupils in the future. The Spittal an der Drau vocational school, the competence center for carpentry, carpentry technology and prefabricated house construction, was commissioned with the implementation of this octagonal pavilion. As part of a school project, initial drafts were planned and work began on the implementation. 

For the structural timber construction, the decision was made to use glued laminated timber made of larch in visible quality and instead of roof boarding, 3-layer panels were mounted on the top of the rafters. The glulam components were processed exactly according to plan in our joinery service center. As part of an excursion, a second class of apprentice carpenters from the vocational school in Spittal an der Drau visited us with their teacher Mr. Schwarzenbacher and were able to experience the progress of the project at first hand. We carried out the joinery work in their presence and were able to draw on the expert support of the trainee carpenters. The octagonal purlin crown was joined together using corner sheet connections. In the upper third of the roof construction, a rafter change was provided on each side of the roof, which was connected to the side of the hip rafters using dovetail joints. Two standard rafters were then inserted into these rafter changes on each side of the roof, which in turn were connected to the rafter changes using dovetail joints. The headbands, as bracing for the construction, were integrated into the purlin crown and the columns using tenons.

The eight corner pillars and the central pillar were glued, planed and cut by the carpentry apprentices at the Spittal an der Drau vocational school from solid larch posts, which first had to be trimmed and trimmed, in the carpentry workshop at the Spittal vocational school. The students then chiseled the mortises into the pillars for the connection of the head bands. The fasteners for assembling the construction were also screwed onto the timbers by the carpentry apprentices from the Spittal an der Drau vocational school in the school's carpentry workshop.

We are convinced that this learning space offers the pupils a unique learning experience and are delighted that we were able to be involved as a project partner.