Building a care campus is not just an assembly of the separate program components. The intention is to supplement the way of life of the children and the way of working of the staff. All this while connecting the building in terms of urban development, but also functionally with the neighborhood and the surrounding landscape.
The campus plays an enormous part in the children's perception of the world. We do not see the answer to the assignment in an isolated building, but in an active interface, in which building, landscape and neighborhood are connected. An overall design in which perspectives gradually change, overlap and perspectives arise.
The outdoor layout forms an essential link between the neighborhood and the care campus. The multi-armed structure of the entire building hides the scale of the building program. There are also various front doors along the various building arms. The school has its address at Leo Baekelandstraat. The boarding school has its address at Herman Vosstraat. In this way visitors do not perceive the large scale as imposing. Along the courtyards are other entrances that provide a pleasant dynamic of passages and more intimate moments.
The living environment of the children is limited and mainly takes place in the interior. By interweaving the interior with the landscape and offering a wide variety of sensations, the enriched interior becomes as if it were an outdoor space. The corridors offer playful views to the courtyard and to the surrounding landscape; interior and landscape are intertwined.
We are committed to sustainability: because of the limited CO2 impact, we chose to construct the entire building in crosslaminated timber. Heating is done by a combination of heat pumps with a BEO field (ground-water heat pump).
The outdoor layout forms an essential link between the neighborhood and the care campus.
The corridors offer playful views to the courtyard and to the surrounding landscape; interior and landscape are intertwined.
Classroom
Classroom
he multi-armed structure of the entire building hides the scale of the building program.
y interweaving the interior with the landscape and offering a wide variety of sensations, the enriched interior becomes as if it were an outdoor space.
view through the window
The corridors offer playful views to the courtyard and to the surrounding landscape; interior and landscape are intertwined.
the pool
the pool
the pool
Along the courtyards are other entrances that provide a pleasant dynamic of passages and more intimate moments.
Along the courtyards are other entrances that provide a pleasant dynamic of passages and more intimate moments.
CLT
Along the courtyards are other entrances that provide a pleasant dynamic of passages and more intimate moments.
CLT
The corridors offer playful views to the courtyard and to the surrounding landscape; interior and landscape are intertwined.
Sportshall
Sportshall