Plattenbau 2POS SBR80 Erfurt No.1

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Author: MeisterMonis

Last revision: 22 Aug, 2021 at 10:50 UTC

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Hello Folks,

today marks the completion of a project I haven’t touched in about 11 months. A typical East German school from the early eighties.
This building type marks the peak of East German standardized schools, combining all previous knowledge from its predecessors.

Background info:

The depicted building was of the "Erfurt" sub-type, being Halle-Silberhöhe’s 13th school in 1982.
Around 25 years later the building was demolished, leaving no remains left of this school type in Halle.
Here is a historic picture from March 31st 1989 of this same exact school:
[commons.wikimedia.org]

And here is the same school shortly before its demolition[mapio.net]

Schulbaureihe 80 (school series 80) is the name of this school design, with its subversions from Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Rostock, Erfurt and a single experimental design built in Weimar.
All sub-versions combined, a total of around 200 schools were built in the years 1980 to 1990.

This design here was created in the city of Erfurt, where the most common East German school designs originated from.
One I already recreated, the "Plattenbau School Type Erfurt double".

The building is primarily made up of standardized prefab panels of the "WBS70"-variety with an increased ceiling height of 3.3 meters.
This color scheme here is rather unique, as nearly all subsequently built schools didn’t use the red and white prefab panels, but rather beige panels decorated with tiles.
The "2POS" part of the name indicates the number of classes per individual grade, so two full 30-student classes per grade 8, 9, 10 and so on.
POS, in this case, is not the abbreviation for a common English insult, but instead for "Polytechnische Oberschule" (polytechnic secondary school), so a school mostly focused on technic related subjects.

This building usually has basement classrooms under the 3-floor building with a 4th row of windows below the zero level.
I deliberately chose not to recreate them, as the game really isn’t really made for this kind of detail. Even without this detail, I think the school still retains its original look.

In-game:

The school can be found under its name "ERF 2POS SBR80 No.1" or alternatively by searching for "Plattenbau".
For this version/color scheme there is no color-mapping as of now.
The whole plot is 13×8.
Some of the shown props like the benches and bicycle stands are part of the asset, the rest like the fence, vegetation and the trash bins are not.
720 high school students can attend this school, the stats are the same as the vanilla high school just multiplied by 0.72 to be proportional to the reduced student count.

If you want a suitable sports hall, there’s a small and large version in my workshop.

Model stats

2POS SBR80 No.1
students
720
model-tris
2888
LOD-tris
36
model-texture
1024×1024
LOD-texture
128×128

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Tags: Erfurt, Thüringen, Thuringia, Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Silberhöhe, Plattenbau, prefab, panel, DDR, GDR, eastgerman, east-germany, europe, european, Education, deutschland, germany, ostdeutschland, UDSSR, USSR, soviet, WBS70, school, Schule, commie, communist, socialist, socialism, brutalist, brutalism, 80s, 90s, 1980, 1990, block, concrete, red, white