A schoolbuilding is a special building in a little village, because almost all the inhabitants have spent an important part of their life there.

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Architects: architecten|en|en

Location: Laarbeek, The Netherlands

Area: 2585.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: BASE Photography

Client: Municipality of Laarbeek

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From the architect. A schoolbuilding is a special building in a little village, because almost all the inhabitants have spent an important part of their life there.

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This means that, as an architect, you can give children something for the rest of their lives, because everbody remembers his or hers old schoolbuilding. ?The building as an adventure? was therefor the starting point of the design.
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The Brede School is located in the heart of Aarle-Rixtel in the south of Holland. A fundamental part for the plan were the site-specific qualities like the many old trees and the existing playgrounds.

Floor Plan

Beside the use of challenging form, we have chosen not to use obvious materials. Often raw, sometimes smooth, mostly unfinished and visibly attached the form a unity that does not leave people untouched.

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The brickwork of the existing gymastics hall and the entire new schoolbuilding are finished in the same manner, with a thin film of m...