When city officials approached architects NKBAK in late 2013 to design a temporary building for the campus of the European School Frankfurt (ESF), they were more concerned with speed than “an interesting architectural solution,” says firm principal Andreas Krawczyk. A large contingent of European Central Bank employees and their families were poised to move to the German city in the next year, threatening to overcrowd the already at-capacity ESF, which offers pre-K-through-12 instruction for the children of staff at European Union institutions. In such situations, Frankfurt often builds schools out of shipping containers, but Krawczyk and his partner, Nicole Kerstin Berganski, hoped to provide a more innovative alternative, convincing the client to consider other modular systems.
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