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Craft School, The Hague - Scheveningen, NL, designed by J. Duiker in 1930-1931. Restored in 1998 to a multi-company building with 22 units.
Technical school, formerly the Third Craft School, consisting of rectangular staggered building masses of three storey's, partly basement, under flat roofs. The ideas of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Modernism, break the concept of the closed façade wall and create a completely new architecture with large glass surfaces where inner and outer space penetrate each other. The wall surfaces to be completed are closed where necessary to heights that are functionally determined in relation to the activities behind the façade.
The carrying frame is made of reinforced concrete. The façades consist of, among other things, cavity walls. The outer leaf is poured concrete on the spot and the inner leaf is made of floating stone. The skeleton and inner and outer walls have been plastered; the different materials, textures and seams, are this stucco layer is made into a continuous skin. The plinth around the building is dark and changes in height. Clarity and practical room layout determine the interior with centrally located stairwell and continuous corridors with on either side at right angles or parallel to them classrooms. The toilets are projected with each classroom. The wardrobe and the bicycle parking are central and can be checked from the porter's lodge.
The building has 21 classrooms; the local dimensions form the basis for the measurement method (a column distance of 8 x 8 meters) of the design. The dimensions are of three types: 8x8, 8x13 and 8x16 meters. The concrete skeleton allows the placement of large glass surfaces. The classrooms and other rooms receive their light via steel windows with horizontal rod distribution with narrow profiles and steel façades with glass on the corridor sides. The arrival of light in the hall is achieved through large areas of glass building blocks.
The school building was very much in line with the modern ideas of upbringing and well-being from that time, which were strongly oriented towards health and hygiene. An open floor plan with large glass surfaces where light and air can penetrate to a large extent translate these ideals into architecture. Cultural-historical significance as a school building that expresses in its design the modern views on upbringing and well-being in the thirties. Architecturally important as a representative and rare example of a school building in the style of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Modernism.
20180918_150446
Craft School, The Hague - Scheveningen, NL, designed by J. Duiker in 1930-1931. Restored in 1998 to a multi-company building with 22 units.
Technical school, formerly the Third Craft School, consisting of rectangular staggered building masses of three storey's, partly basement, under flat roofs. The ideas of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Modernism, break the concept of the closed façade wall and create a completely new architecture with large glass surfaces where inner and outer space penetrate each other. The wall surfaces to be completed are closed where necessary to heights that are functionally determined in relation to the activities behind the façade.
The carrying frame is made of reinforced concrete. The façades consist of, among other things, cavity walls. The outer leaf is poured concrete on the spot and the inner leaf is made of floating stone. The skeleton and inner and outer walls have been plastered; the different materials, textures and seams, are this stucco layer is made into a continuous skin. The plinth around the building is dark and changes in height. Clarity and practical room layout determine the interior with centrally located stairwell and continuous corridors with on either side at right angles or parallel to them classrooms. The toilets are projected with each classroom. The wardrobe and the bicycle parking are central and can be checked from the porter's lodge.
The building has 21 classrooms; the local dimensions form the basis for the measurement method (a column distance of 8 x 8 meters) of the design. The dimensions are of three types: 8x8, 8x13 and 8x16 meters. The concrete skeleton allows the placement of large glass surfaces. The classrooms and other rooms receive their light via steel windows with horizontal rod distribution with narrow profiles and steel façades with glass on the corridor sides. The arrival of light in the hall is achieved through large areas of glass building blocks.
The school building was very much in line with the modern ideas of upbringing and well-being from that time, which were strongly oriented towards health and hygiene. An open floor plan with large glass surfaces where light and air can penetrate to a large extent translate these ideals into architecture. Cultural-historical significance as a school building that expresses in its design the modern views on upbringing and well-being in the thirties. Architecturally important as a representative and rare example of a school building in the style of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Modernism.