compilation Teylingen
A project from 2006, at EGM's.
This project got published several times in Holland (de Architect October 2007, "A Tradition of Change" Staro Nai publishers January 2009), due to it being the built form of a new educational approach making it a somewhat experimental school building. Experiential learning, or 'learning by doing', are the central teaching methods. The central study and work spaces show most clearly this philosophy. These areas form the core of the four storey building.
Colour is used to represent each professional field: red represents expression, blue stands for maths, physics and chemistry, orange for languages and green for 'Man & Society " (geography, history).
The domains are arranged as an open space surrounded by instructional and class rooms that are partly open, partly closed off, and staff rooms. In the class rooms complex topics are explained and tests conducted. Other tasks can optionally be done in the open spaces or in the main workspace provided.
For small groups a "work unit" was designed, emphasized by a striped carpet. Perpendicular to this element long wooden work benches provide individual as well as group study possibilities.
The budget was tight so the spacial solutions as well as the choice of materials had to be economical and also done inventively to prevent the school from becoming bland and uninspiring.
A lot of industrial materials were used, but only so to make an unusual use of them, for example the ceilings were done by using reinforcement steel grids, used normally to strengthen concrete. Acoustics were dealt with by means of a special plaster on the ceilings, partly made of shredded recycled paper. Light fixtures are held into position with tie-wraps. Walls are made up of underlayment board and oriented strand board, floors are coated with concrete paint. The building's facades are made of stucco, Hardi plank (a very cheap cement board with a dark brown coating), and blue coated, moulded polyester panels, hiding the multi coloured sunscreen rolls. The furniture design was partly done by Hollandse Nieuwe, a dutch design firm.
Although succesful in many ways the school is currently suffering from a lack of space for housing the ever rising number of new pupils each year...
compilation Teylingen
A project from 2006, at EGM's.
This project got published several times in Holland (de Architect October 2007, "A Tradition of Change" Staro Nai publishers January 2009), due to it being the built form of a new educational approach making it a somewhat experimental school building. Experiential learning, or 'learning by doing', are the central teaching methods. The central study and work spaces show most clearly this philosophy. These areas form the core of the four storey building.
Colour is used to represent each professional field: red represents expression, blue stands for maths, physics and chemistry, orange for languages and green for 'Man & Society " (geography, history).
The domains are arranged as an open space surrounded by instructional and class rooms that are partly open, partly closed off, and staff rooms. In the class rooms complex topics are explained and tests conducted. Other tasks can optionally be done in the open spaces or in the main workspace provided.
For small groups a "work unit" was designed, emphasized by a striped carpet. Perpendicular to this element long wooden work benches provide individual as well as group study possibilities.
The budget was tight so the spacial solutions as well as the choice of materials had to be economical and also done inventively to prevent the school from becoming bland and uninspiring.
A lot of industrial materials were used, but only so to make an unusual use of them, for example the ceilings were done by using reinforcement steel grids, used normally to strengthen concrete. Acoustics were dealt with by means of a special plaster on the ceilings, partly made of shredded recycled paper. Light fixtures are held into position with tie-wraps. Walls are made up of underlayment board and oriented strand board, floors are coated with concrete paint. The building's facades are made of stucco, Hardi plank (a very cheap cement board with a dark brown coating), and blue coated, moulded polyester panels, hiding the multi coloured sunscreen rolls. The furniture design was partly done by Hollandse Nieuwe, a dutch design firm.
Although succesful in many ways the school is currently suffering from a lack of space for housing the ever rising number of new pupils each year...