Frydenberg Skole

Unique Glass Panels Create Refreshingly Colorful Environment

Though juggling 64 double glazed units of laminated glass proved to be a bit of a challenge to install in this project, the results are more than satisfactory. The inner pane of glass is tempered with a unique ceramic print in a circular pattern. The outer pane is laminated with Vanceva® color interlayers and printed with the image of hands. The visual design should accommodate all teaching rooms facing the school’s internal atrium with a cafeteria and an open auditorium. It was desirable to create screening of teaching in the rooms, but also let through movement and light according to fire regulations. Hands were used as a visual element to soften the monumental architectural expression.

Frydenberg school was built on a former transformer factory which was built in the years 1936. Hands are emerging as an organic forest that filters light and displays, and are in the history of the origin of the factory hall. The design reinforced the school’s ambition to be a school where diversity and unity are paramount. The school has a high non-Norwegian ethnic student body, and hands that were used reflected this. In contrast to the large forms, is a dense circular layers in the glass walls of abstract cells.