Higher School of National Finances at Speyer», Germany

Abstract

The total building program connected with this School comprises the following: 1. The Higher School itself, which has an auditorium, lecture halls, main lecture hall, rooms for scientific work done by professors and their assistants, and the usual administrative offices. 2. Living quarters for the professors and students, living rooms, a club and a flat for the porter. 3. A bar and the kitchen. 4. Garage, servicing station and a bicycle shed. The Higher School is built on a single level, around a central patio-style garden, with a pond in the middle. The library, lecture halls, and working rooms are arranged to face this inner open space. The main lecture hall rises in tiers, to facilitate the view of the speaker, and its roof emerges considerably above the level of the rest of the building, as a dominant feature. The living accommodation is housed in a four storey building. The ground floor contains the club, living rooms, and the professors and porter's flats. The upper three floors are taken up with the students rooms. These are single and double rooms. This project is simply proportioned, and the volumes and planes are very clearly differentiated, to achieve a space pattern of very clearcut outline.