Pitkäkan­gas School

Ren­o­va­tion pro­gram alliance

The Pitkäkan­gas school, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the "Oulu school" style, had reached the age of ren­o­va­tion. The City of Oulu chose a pro­gram alliance as the project form for the site. The ren­o­va­tion project of the huge build­ing com­plex was divid­ed into six phas­es, which made it pos­si­ble for edu­ca­tion to con­tin­ue dur­ing the ren­o­va­tion. Only a small num­ber of the pupils had to take turns in tem­po­rary facil­i­ties.

The design work was car­ried out in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Mart­ti Kar­sikas, the building's orig­i­nal archi­tect. The ele­ments added to the exist­ing build­ings and the new inte­ri­or archi­tec­ture respect the orig­i­nal design lan­guage. From a ped­a­gog­i­cal point of view, the changes pro­vid­ed the premis­es with the flex­i­bil­i­ty and adapt­abil­i­ty the new cur­ricu­lum requires from learn­ing envi­ron­ments.