The interior concept for the school and kindergarten in the LIFE residential complex is based on an analysis of the existing architectural project: the building is a rectangular three-storey volume extended along the park zone of the Yauza River valley.

Functionally, the volume is divided into three blocks: the preschool facility, the primary school and the secondary school. The compositional centre of each block is its internal courtyard. As a result, each block reveals a dominant multi-height volume adjoining the courtyard: in the first, this is the toddler pool and the school swimming pool; in the second, the assembly hall; and in the third, the sports hall. These volumes act as compositional landmarks and are each assigned their own marker colour: the pool is conditionally turquoise, the assembly hall conditionally red, and the sports hall conditionally blue. In this way, navigation through the functional blocks of the building is organised. Floor-by-floor navigation within the school is achieved through the use of colour on the portals of classroom doors: grey on the first floor, blue on the second, and red on the third — these being the school operator’s corporate colours. The use of neutral light-grey and white tones in the finishes of the spaces arranged around the central volumes creates a contrast that makes the building’s compositional centres stand out even more clearly.