The Alphabet

The idea, that the new living room should extend beyond the existing classroom into the adjunct corridor and visually connect with the existing library on the lower floor, has been present since the very beginning of scheme design. In this way, we added almost 40 m² of usable surfaces for playing and socializing.

The new leisure place is designed as an open Alphabet field, where big scale letters take over the functions of classical furniture elements. Soft and movable letters become cushions for sitting and assembling whereas hard and fixed letters take over the function of storage areas and space dividers that create smaller sub units for rest, socializing and sports. Here you can play billiards, chess or throw darts, you can read, sleep or watch a movie, do your homework, hang out with your friends, eat your snack, play mini basketball, listen to the music, observe the people in the library below.

Even though the fixed letters take over the function of space dividers, they also connect all three spatial units into a whole, as they simultaneously hide all the structural elements within them. In this way you do not see any other structural support in the living room, only large-scale Alphabet letters that with its uncommonness surprises and excites the pupils and creates a unique space for socializing, where for a brief moment, one can forget about daily school assignments.