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When it came to designing a combined primary and secondary school in Stuttgart, local architect Aldinger & Aldinger was more than happy to dispense with its sleek modern style and return to nature in what senior partner J枚rg Aldinger calls 鈥漚n adventure into organic design methods鈥�.

This wasn鈥檛 a pure whim. The school is located in the suburb of Waldorf, where anthropologist Rudolf Steiner established his first residential community in harmony with nature in the twenties. It replaces the community鈥檚 original school, which had been converted.

However, the architect didn鈥檛 want to replicate Steiner鈥檚 style, which looks, in Aldinger鈥檚 words, 鈥渁s if it grew out of the earth鈥�.

鈥淲e wanted to know how the movement of children could be translated into a choreography of spaces and built forms,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e looked closely at how children walk, how light comes into a building and how colours change with the seasons.鈥�

The resulting building is a concoction of irregular forms and spaces that flow into each other. Large irregular windows, many of them wrapped around corners, bring in daylight and views out to the surrounding woodland.

The external walls are clad in larch battens, and these are also given an organic twist. On some surfaces, two layers of battens criss-cross at varying angles. 鈥淚t makes a dynamic facade that is always changing in the light,鈥� says Aldinger.

鈥淭he pupils like the building very much,鈥� he adds. 鈥淏ut some of the teachers criticised us for breaking the severe Steiner rules of building design. They wanted the building to be solidly rooted in the ground, and we turned it upside down with rooms that cantilevered outwards, like branches of a tree鈥� 鈥� a mark of disobedience that will surely add to the pupils鈥� enjoyment of the building.