The Clay School is an Integrated Secondary School with a special musical orientation.
The building has an approximately square floor plan. With a clear cubature it asserts itself as a solid hold in an undifferentiated urban environment. That is the purpose of a school which provides protection for learning and growing up together.
The wave-like deformation of the facade opens up the idea of making the inside of the school perceptible on the outside without questioning the building as a protective space: With the waves, everything, that is said, articulated, sung and performed, is transmitted abstractedly through the outer wall. The events penetrate to the outside and transform the facade into a vibrating membrane.
Arsis and Thesis are originally opposing concepts of Greek metering, which describe the raising and lowering of beats. In music, they denote unaccented and accented beat parts, up and downbeat.
The nature of the building enclosing faced brickwork and the waves (shaped blocks) are identical in colour play
and in the surface structure. Waves and building form a unit.
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