The School of Cooperation has existed in Moscow since 1990. The main building is a four-storey school building built in 1936. The new building housed: a large dining room, a second sports hall and specialized classrooms for middle and high school, both large, "laboratory" and small, convenient for division into groups. All these functions are "packed" in a compact volume, inscribed, as we remember, in the slope. However, it is far from simple, enlivened by two not very large, but expressive consoles, and from the outside it is designed as composed of three parts of different matter. For one, the simplest, golden-reddish aluminum panels in the lower part are responsible, for the other, the most voluminous - embossed striped fiberglass concrete: it appears on the northwestern corner, where the biology room acts as a console with a two-tiered corner window, as well as on the south and east facades, also with a cantilever and with a rounded corner - where it forms the main array of medium and small auditoriums, and is adjacent to the glass wall of the gym / dining room.

The main entrance to the new building is through a hinged glass passage at the level of the 2nd floor of the old building. The passage connects the corners of the two buildings diagonally and leads the students to a small two-height atrium, very well lit, since its right (from the entrance) part is facing southeast. As you know, the atrium is one of the key parts of modern school buildings; it serves both for relaxation and for communication / socialization of children. It also significantly improves the mood of the incoming person - thanks to the sun's glare and considerable height, it really makes you breathe deeply and somehow look around. The atrium is not large, but it has room for four amphitheater steps, a string of ring-shaped lamps that accentuate the height of the space, and a balcony with several cabinets of an open library.

In one way or another, many design principles of modern schools were reflected in the new school building: a public space with an open library and an amphitheater, an exit to the terrace, skylights and stained-glass windows, a compact “packing” of volumes for optimal use of space and a variety of planned “rays of vision”, the opportunity to look somewhere, for example, in a gym or a biology room, from above - all these are signs of an atypical, relevant approach. In this case, they are applied not to a gigantic, but to a relatively small - 2060 m2 - school building, which both inside and outside seems to be a kind of "precious box", into which a lot of effort, time and love have been invested - both by designers and management the school itself.