This secondary school on the outskirts of Freising makes an urban impact amidst a rag-bag of low residential and trade buildings. The large volume is divided between three right-angled sections that articulate the school‘s functions logically. The two-storey band containing the classrooms towers above the two other low sections of the building. The school yard forms the central point of the complex. It is between the sports hall and the main building, which are held together by two lateral roofs, framing the two open sides of the school yard visually and spatially. The front roof forms the entrance to the school: the effect it makes is of a town gate, inviting pupils, teachers and visitors into the yard, which also functions as a forecourt. To the left is the sports hall, whose bottom section is sunk into the site, to make the volume less conspicuous. On the right a cube – half outside and half inside the building – acts as a porch at the main entrance to the school. The double doors in light timber stand out clearly from the aluminium cube and the black metal lines of the post-and-rail facade.