Planned for roughly 1,000 pupils, this new secondary school is situated on the periphery of Eching, north of Munich. Because of its somewhat out-of-the-way position between the suburban railway station and a housing area outside the town centre, the architects decided to design the school as an autonomous urban entity. The layout comprises a series of tracts turned at right angles to each other, as a result of which the ensemble seems to consist of a number of separate buildings. The strips are wrapped around two courtyards – a forecourt and a playground – each of which is demarcated on its open side by a series of steps.