In the course of an intensive process of public review, the municipality decided against relocating the school building and community hall in favour of refurbishment. The four-room elementary school had sufficient teaching space at its disposal; what was missing were auxiliary rooms. The existing community hall was also obsolete. Consequently, the classrooms were left intact, but the rest of the building was demolished. The masonry classrooms were furnished with wood ceilings and a new building envelope. New rooms made of wood now line the street side section of the building, whereby the original proportions remain largely intact. Given the short construction time, the new hall had to be built of wood as well. A cubic mass with a flat roof adjoins the gable-roofed wing; it has been inserted crosswise below the eaves of the old building and abuts the street. [...]

Principal: Gemeinde Bizau

Completition: 1999

Project management: DI Rolf Ennulat
Planning: DI Stefan Hiebeler, DI Nives Pavkovic
Cost planning: Bmst. Ing Norbert Kaufmann
Girder planning: M+G Ingenieure, DI Josef Galehr, Feldkirch
Heating Ventilation Sanitary planning: GMI Ingenieure, Dornbirn
Electrical planning: Ing. Willi Meusburger, Bezau
Building physics / Acoustics: DI Dr. Lothar Künz ZT GmbH, Hard, Ing. Karl Brüstle, Dornbirn