Interior
As also seen from the outside, the VELUX roof windows create cutout sections of daylight in the facades. Inside, under the sloping roof, class- and meeting rooms offer an open and inviting space despite the modest furniture.
Interior
As also seen from the outside, the VELUX roof windows create cutout sections of daylight in the facades. Inside, under the sloping roof, class- and meeting rooms offer an open and inviting space despite the modest furniture.
Interior
As also seen from the outside, the VELUX roof windows create cutout sections of daylight in the facades. Inside, under the sloping roof, class- and meeting rooms offer an open and inviting space despite the modest furniture.
Materials and construction
In the eastern part of Poland there are huge forest areas and timber production and here, in the Wielkopolska region at the big factory in Gniesno, the VELUX roof windows have been produced by local Polish workers.
The windows are placed in regularly repeated vertical bands as an essential part of the elegant facades and embrace the gable roof construction. The 30 degrees metal roof, zinc with a beautiful pewter-like dustiness, continues to the corners where the wooden construction meets the metal.
Economy
The building has primarily been financed by the Barka Foundation, which is a private Danish foundation supporting social projects in Poland. It has been very important for the Foundation that the Barka School should have a Danish partner, Kofoed School in Copenhagen, since the school is based on a well-respected Danish idea and social model.
‘Though the people at Kofoed School in Copenhagen have not supported this building project financially, they certainly have given much inspiration and support in the foundation’s daily work.
The Barka Foundation does not support the daily operation, but have strongly supported the building project’, explains Ewa Sodowski from the Barka Foundation. The School, therefore, has to rely on financial support primarily from Danish companies and industries. A huge grant from the VELUX Foundations made it possible to start the project. Other Danish supporters were Grundfos, Nykredit, Lego, TKDevelopment, Danfoss, Danske Bank, Novo Nordisk and Group4Falck plus Dom Vikingów in Poznan.
Concept and function
The Barka School in Poznan, a socalled Centre of Social Integration(CIS), is a place where long-term unemployed can upgrade their skills and qualifications, and get vocational and theoretical training which will enable them to go back to work in normal jobs based on the market structures. The School has currently over 200 students, and more than 800 are waiting to be admitted. The Barka Foundation is about to establish more Centres of Social Integration in Poznan and other cities, so this is just the beginning of a bigger process. Barka means ‘lifeboat’, and that is precisely what people without many opportunities in life need in order to get a grip and a firm basis in their everyday life again. In that respect, the new school with its adult educational training programs was needed for those who had almost ‘drowned’ – or found themselves in a critical situation and had been left behind.
The Barka Foundation
The Barka Mutual Support Foundation is a non-governmental organization established in 1989 as a response to the increasing social problems during the transformation years in Poland. Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski wanted to create conditions offering the forgotten and unwanted – people who mightbe regarded as dispirited or ‘crooked’ characters – a chance for personal growth and social development. The overall task of the foundation has been to create a program for development of a social support system in Poland similar to systems found in other countries like e.g. Denmark, where the Kofoed School in Copenhagen is a well-known partner/sister organization based on the same principles. The objective is, therefore, to create a system supporting the integration of the outcasts of society.
An architectural lifeboat providing social care. Homeless and unemployed people are social groups in strong need of various forms of help. The foundation-based Barka Koefoed School in Poland is offering such support in form of shelter and educational training.
Materials and construction
In the eastern part of Poland there are huge forest areas and timber production and here, in the Wielkopolska region at the big factory in Gniesno, the VELUX roof windows have been produced by local Polish workers.
The windows are placed in regularly repeated vertical bands as an essential part of the elegant facades and embrace the gable roof construction. The 30 degrees metal roof, zinc with a beautiful pewter-like dustiness, continues to the corners where the wooden construction meets the metal.
Economy
The building has primarily been financed by the Barka Foundation, which is a private Danish foundation supporting social projects in Poland. It has been very important for the Foundation that the Barka School should have a Danish partner, Kofoed School in Copenhagen, since the school is based on a well-respected Danish idea and social model.
‘Though the people at Kofoed School in Copenhagen have not supported this building project financially, they certainly have given much inspiration and support in the foundation’s daily work.
The Barka Foundation does not support the daily operation, but have strongly supported the building project’, explains Ewa Sodowski from the Barka Foundation. The School, therefore, has to rely on financial support primarily from Danish companies and industries. A huge grant from the VELUX Foundations made it possible to start the project. Other Danish supporters were Grundfos, Nykredit, Lego, TKDevelopment, Danfoss, Danske Bank, Novo Nordisk and Group4Falck plus Dom Vikingów in Poznan.
An architectural lifeboat providing social care. Homeless and unemployed people are social groups in strong need of various forms of help. The foundation-based Barka Koefoed School in Poland is offering such support in form of shelter and educational training.
Concept and function
The Barka School in Poznan, a socalled Centre of Social Integration(CIS), is a place where long-term unemployed can upgrade their skills and qualifications, and get vocational and theoretical training which will enable them to go back to work in normal jobs based on the market structures. The School has currently over 200 students, and more than 800 are waiting to be admitted. The Barka Foundation is about to establish more Centres of Social Integration in Poznan and other cities, so this is just the beginning of a bigger process. Barka means ‘lifeboat’, and that is precisely what people without many opportunities in life need in order to get a grip and a firm basis in their everyday life again. In that respect, the new school with its adult educational training programs was needed for those who had almost ‘drowned’ – or found themselves in a critical situation and had been left behind.
The Barka Foundation
The Barka Mutual Support Foundation is a non-governmental organization established in 1989 as a response to the increasing social problems during the transformation years in Poland. Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski wanted to create conditions offering the forgotten and unwanted – people who mightbe regarded as dispirited or ‘crooked’ characters – a chance for personal growth and social development. The overall task of the foundation has been to create a program for development of a social support system in Poland similar to systems found in other countries like e.g. Denmark, where the Kofoed School in Copenhagen is a well-known partner/sister organization based on the same principles. The objective is, therefore, to create a system supporting the integration of the outcasts of society.
Materials and construction
In the eastern part of Poland there are huge forest areas and timber production and here, in the Wielkopolska region at the big factory in Gniesno, the VELUX roof windows have been produced by local Polish workers.
The windows are placed in regularly repeated vertical bands as an essential part of the elegant facades and embrace the gable roof construction. The 30 degrees metal roof, zinc with a beautiful pewter-like dustiness, continues to the corners where the wooden construction meets the metal.
Economy
The building has primarily been financed by the Barka Foundation, which is a private Danish foundation supporting social projects in Poland. It has been very important for the Foundation that the Barka School should have a Danish partner, Kofoed School in Copenhagen, since the school is based on a well-respected Danish idea and social model.
‘Though the people at Kofoed School in Copenhagen have not supported this building project financially, they certainly have given much inspiration and support in the foundation’s daily work.
The Barka Foundation does not support the daily operation, but have strongly supported the building project’, explains Ewa Sodowski from the Barka Foundation. The School, therefore, has to rely on financial support primarily from Danish companies and industries. A huge grant from the VELUX Foundations made it possible to start the project. Other Danish supporters were Grundfos, Nykredit, Lego, TKDevelopment, Danfoss, Danske Bank, Novo Nordisk and Group4Falck plus Dom Vikingów in Poznan.
An architectural lifeboat providing social care. Homeless and unemployed people are social groups in strong need of various forms of help. The foundation-based Barka Koefoed School in Poland is offering such support in form of shelter and educational training.
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