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PROGRAMME OF REQUIREMENTS

The present-day way of teaching demands that pupil work more and more independently and lectures are given less and less. The amount of time teachers and pupils spend together is decreasing. Pupils are more and more often being given assignments that they either have to do alone or in a group. This has consequences for the functional organisation of the school building.

In the case of the new building for Sport & Bewegen, this has led to less ‘standard’ classrooms and more areas in which pupils can either work alone or in groups. This has been expressly reflected in the architecture. These workplaces have been prominently situated in the red ‘wave’. This makes them visible from the ground floor, easy to survey and at the same time easy and quick to reach.

Inside the ‘wave’, the opportunity has also been created to make larger rooms into smaller group workplaces by means of sliding walls. This guarantees flexibility.

Meeting and sharing is an important condition for the functional design. This has been rendered in the floor plans by positioning the auditorium and the study centre on the ground and first floor, respectively, at the heart of the building. Around these, situated behind the more closed facades are the office and educational facilities. The group workplaces have been put at the front in the ‘rising wave’ section.

The heart, or in other words, the core, is in this way vital in the building and is very close to all the other facilities. Besides this, by employing (partly) transparent and flexible walls it is easy to create larger spaces that can be used for presentations and performances for a large number of people.

The use of multicoloured, mobile study and consultation booths provides the opportunity to be able to study or have discussions in peace whilst still being in the relatively large and sometimes noisy auditorium. The colour, size and differences in shape also make for wonderful contrasting elements.