User:Smedra/sandbox

Götabergsskolan
by the architect Adrian Crispin Peterson (known under the name Adrian Peterson)

Götabergsskolan (Gotaberg school) is a five floor building, the façade clad in light yellow bricks. The building is 107 years old and was upon completion one of Gothenburg’s largest elementary schools. Götabergsskolan was purpose built as an elementary school, designed to house about 1,000 students. The building was built between 1903 and 1906 by the architect Adrian Crispin Peterson (known under the name Adrian Peterson). The building is located in central Gothenburg in the Landala neighbourhood. Since 2002 the building houses the International School of the Gothenburg Region as well as the International High School of the Gothenburg Region. Hence it once again is used as it was originally intended.

History
Götabergsskolan was built from 1903- 1906 and the opening of the school was in the autumn semester of 1906. The building was one of the largest elementary schools in Gothenburg and is unusually well preserved. The principal of the school at that time was Dan Zander. In 1908, the king of Sweden, Gustav V, visited Götabergsskolan.

Adrian C. Peterson (Adrian Crispin Peterson, born year 1835 in Sweden) was a Swedish architect. Adrian C. Peterson studied at the Academy of Fine Arts "(Swedish: Konstakademien)" in Stockholm. A C. Peterson graduated in 1866 and became an architect. 1872 he moved to Gothenburg and settled there. He has been largely engaged in this city’s buildings, where the design of Götabergsskolan is one of them.

Currently the building is used as a municipal elementary and high school, the International Highschool of Gothenburg Region (IHGR). The school was founded 2001, and the opening of the school was on August the 19th 2002. The school teach in English, but follow the Swedish curriculum. The school offer the following programs: the Natural Science Program, the Social Science Program and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB Diploma). The numbers of students are 310, and the number of teachers are 25.

Design and construction
The design of the Götaberg school has been an influence on other architects. Buildings in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Freetown Christiania mimic Götabergsskolan’s appearance. The school’s roof is a sheet-covered gable roof with turret structures. The façade is covered with light yellow and light brown bricks arranged in random patterns, mostly in the moldings and around doors and windows. The entrances are framed with heavy brick and the main entrance has original doors with rich decorations.

The building was constructed to have special rooms for different school subjects. The natural Sciences halls were built in a special way and they had enough space for chemistry, physics and biology materials: They also had amphitheater benches arranged for students and special demonstration table for the teachers.

They built two sports halls; one was a normal sports hall and the other one was an indoor swimming pool. The former sports halls building was rebuilt in the 1980s. Now it houses canteens for the two schools at Götaberg as well as of neighbouring high school Hvitfeldtska.