Transylvania International School

Quadratum Architecture

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Ready to Build (Permitted Projects) – Culture. Education. Display

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Romania

Company Name

Quadratum Architecture

 

COMPANY COUNTRY:

Romania

ARCHITECTURAL CREDITS

Quadratum Architecture, arch. Patricia Sturzoiu, arch. Emanuel Vișan, arch. Ioana Dăescu, arch. Raluca Nistor, arch. Cătălin Dibu

Project Team
Aventus Design (Structure), eng. Alexandru Pintilie, Addict Engineering (MEP), eng. Teodor Angelescu, eng. Alin Ungureanu, eng. Cosmin Scrieciu
CLIENT OR OWNER NAME:

Holistic Christian Education Association

Project Name:
Transylvania International School
Project Country:

Romania

Project City:
Brasov
Project Category:
Culture. Education. Display
Project Area:
2350
Completion Date:
Project overview

Thirteen classrooms, a two-group kindergarten and administration on a 6,680 m² Brașov plot once requisitioned as a military depot. A narrow plan sent the courtyard into the section: two offset C-shaped volumes yield a 500 m² sheltered court, a classroom terrace above, and five kinds of outside. Hall, kitchen and sports hall are shared with a restored 1930s centre next door, so the greatest saving is the building left unbuilt.

Project history
The association behind the school opened with seven pupils in the 2018–19 year, teaching small English-language groups in rented rooms in Brașov. Enrolment reached 65 by 2020–21 and now runs from preschool into high school, which sent the client looking for ground of its own. Design began in 2021 on a plot requisitioned under communism and held as a military depot. The client also rents the restored 1930s event centre on the neighbouring plot, and that tenancy shaped the brief: the school builds the classrooms, kindergarten and administration it uniquely needs and borrows hall, kitchen and sports hall from next door. Construction began in December 2025 and the structure is now rising. The completed campus will hold 250 children in groups of 15 to 18, giving a school that has grown for eight years inside borrowed rooms a building of its own, on ground the town was once closed out of.