The Aussie demountable classroom is getting a German makeover to give them clean air with year-round constant temperatures.
A new, upgraded type of demountable classroom is being installed at the German International School in Terrey Hills.
Few are as comfortable, though, as the three award-winning mobile classrooms designed by NSW architectural practice Betti & Knut for Sydney’s German International School in Terrey Hills. They are the first in Australia to meet the international Passive House standard. The students like the smell of the new classrooms. To German visitors, the layers of imported solid spruce wood in the walls “smells like home”, said architect Knut Menden. Used in saunas, spruce also absorbs moisture.
Since being completed last year, the classrooms have won a range of awards, including the education category of the 2022 Sustainability Awards, and were shortlisted for this year’s regional architect awards, the Inde award.Menden said the project had been a chance to rethink the idea of established demountables and develop a sustainable solution at a similar cost and speedy time frame. Their new prototype, S.e.ed.
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