Lesesaal

The existing school is brick and generous. The annex is neither. It is a long concrete room with a clerestory of north light and a single oak table that runs the length of the floor.

Books live in a low wall of shelves so that the room remains a room, not a stack. The light is even. There is no view to manage — only the work of reading.

The join to the old building is a threshold of the same width as a classroom door. You leave one century and sit down in another without ceremony.