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Plattenbau 2POS SBR80 Erfurt No.2

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Hello Folks,

today it was time to tie up some loose ends. I showed this project one year ago on my twitter, which was also my first post there. Now it was time to finally complete that project.
A typical East German school from the early eighties, the peak of East German standardized schools which combines all previous knowledge from its predecessors.


Background info:

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 pretty common, most of the schools had 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.2" or alternatively by searching for "Plattenbau".
All the white tiles are color-mapped.
The whole plot is 13x8.
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.
Some of the textures are shared with my ERF 2POS SBR80 No.1 so using the Loading Screen Mod to cut down on file size is advised.

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






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