Portfolio primary education by atelier PRO

PORTFOLIO PRIMARY EDUCATION

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Education and atelier PRO About us

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Community Centre De Statie Sas van Gent Community Centre Plus O3 Rivierenbuurt Den Haag Community Centre Krimpen aan de Lek Community Centre Op Expeditie Venlo Community Centre Waterrijk Boskoop Community Centre Achtmaal Zundert Community Centre Montessorischools Valkenbos Den Haag Community Centre Huis van de Heuvel Breda Community Centre Geuzenschip Brielle Community Centre Warmond Community Centre Zuiderkwartier Tilburg Community Centre Mandela Gouda Community Centre Damlaan Schiedam Clean Air Schools

EDUCATION AND ATELIER PRO Healthy and Pleasant Atelier PRO is committed to the educational learning environment for children and young adults. In our view, this environment should be a HEALTHY and PLEASANT one for pupils to reach their best achievements. This applies to all types of tuition in primary and secondary schools, and higher education. For a healthy and pleasant educational learning environment, we as architects pay attention to indoor climate, logistics, and the positioning of the various spaces inside the building, as well as the relationship to the town and surroundings. Pupils, teachers, and staff should feel at home in our designs, which is why creating a healthy and pleasant school building is essential. Buildings from atelier PRO offer possibilities for a variety of different educational visions. We believe that the interpretation of the educational vision lies with the teachers and the school board and not with the architects. It is our job to envision optimal building designs that can accommodate different perspectives in collaboration with the client and the educational institution. We commit ourselves to translating distinctive wishes into initial starting points. This takes both imagination and good communication skills during the design process, an approach that has led to numerous characteristic educational school buildings of which we present a selection here.

ABOUT US Atelier PRO was set up in 1976, and is an architectural firm in The Hague where animated professionals are actively engaged with architecture, urban development, interior design and building and costs management. Our home base is a special dune garden in the Archipelbuurt in The Hague. This location reflects who we are, as it represents how much we value the genius loci. From the very beginning, a contextual approach to architecture has been our motive, and it still is. Starting from these principles, atelier PRO creates surprising and pioneering architecture with a strong social engagement. This was the foundation of our name: PRO = Plan, Ruimte, Ontwikkeling (plan, space, development). For us, the quality of a residential environment forms the basis for people to be able to develop themselves. Therefore, it is no coincidence that a major part of our portfolio consists of social property. Our view on education and health care has been translated into various schools, multifunctional accommodations and health care institutions. Furthermore, cultural and public buildings such as theatres and cultural centres also form part of it. Our involvement to improve the social environment is also converted into a great interest in and affinity with renovation and re-use. Recognizing and using the unnoticed beauty of existing buildings, often yields surprising designs. We highly value the historic stratification of the built environment and we ask ourselves: what qualities can we maintain and use to create surplus value. We try to look into the future, for example by investigating any possible contribution of architecture and urban development to a sustainable residential environment. Therefore, ongoing development of knowledge and skills plays a major role for our office. For instance, what will the clean city of the future look like? With what sort of new materials can we design environmental friendly facades? For us, such issues are topical. Our curiosity and spirit of enterprise become manifest in items such as high sustainability scores, trend-setting strategies for educational buildings and successful office layouts for The New World of Work.

Community centre with two primary schools, library, several community facilities , sports centre, child care, municipal health service (GGD), residential complex of 23 apartments Design 01.2009 - 05.2010 Construction 03.2011 - 02.2013 Client Woongoed Zeeuws-Vlaanderen Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Pascale Leistra Project leader Ronald Peters General contractor van Wijnen, Waalwijk Address Canadalaan, Sas van Gent Gross floor area 9000 m² Price per m² € 1.110- / £ 919,Building costs € 10.000.000,£ 8.283.000,Ground floor

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COMMUNITY CENTRE DE STATIE SAS VAN GENT flexible plasticity responds to whimsical location De Statie in Sas van Gent is a multifunctional accommodation. Besides a library, several community facilities and a sports centre, the complex accommodates two primary schools, a childcare centre, playgroup and municipal health service (GGD), and a residential complex of 23 apartments. The shape of this location is rather whimsical, and the complex responds to this shape by means of randomness and plasticity. The building cannot be surveyed at a single glance, due to the angular rotations, overhangs and variety in surfaces.

Playground overlooking the entrance of De Statie.

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Below left to right: Facade of The Statie made of traditional black horizontal wood siding, meeting

space, natural sunlight brings light into the loft, library, sports hall, theater/cinema

Community centre with a primary school, child care, nursery, sport accomodation, neighboorhood functions Brede buurtschool met buurtcentrum, basisschool, kinderopvang, gezondheidscentrum, sportvoorzieningen Design 01.2010 - 02.2011 Construction 06.2014 - 07.2015 Client SCOH & Haag Wonen Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Christina Kaiser Project leader Eelko Bemener Addresd Zaanstraat 25, Den Haag Gross floor area 4.108 mÂ˛ Building costs â&#x201A;Ź 4.633.000,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE PLUS 03 RIVIERENBUURT DEN HAAG school and community centre in one August 2015 marked the start of the first school year for the Brede Buurtschool Plus 03, a new building designed by atelier PRO architects Christina Kaiser and Dorte Kristensen. This is not just a school â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is the heart of the Rivierenbuurt neighbourhood in The Hague. It was designed for the young and old in the community. The name Plus O3 refers to development, discovery and meeting, all words that start with an O in Dutch (ontwikkelen, ontdekken, ontmoeten). The building is located in one of the districts bordering on the centre of the city. It comprises the Jan van Nassau primary school (SCOH), the DAK child care centre, welfare organisation Zebra, as well as a medical and community centre, and sport associations.

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Design 02.2012 - 11.2013 Construction 09.2013 - 06.2014 Client Hevo Project architect Dorte Kristensen and Mira van Beek Project leader Mira van Beek Address Klaverstraat, Krimpen aan de Lek Gross floor area 3.200 m² Building costs: € 3.422.666, £ 2,719,462,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE KRIMPEN AAN DE LEK synergy and flexible shape

From left to right: Entrance visible and recognizable. The stairs to the upper floor create an nice atmosphere. Six themes, appointed by the schools and BSO in the initiation phase are integrated into the building’s ‘cornerstones’ .

This new MFA, situated on the Admiraal de Ruyterstraat and the Klaverstraat, consists of the Protestant primary school De Wegwijzer (the signpost), the public primary school Prinses Irene, an after- school care centre (SKN) and a gymnastics hall. The gymnastics hall holds a central position between the two schools, thus creating two schoolyards, each with their own character. The gymnastics hall is also directly connected with the playgroup and after school care, therefore enabling complete multifunctional use throughout the building.

Multifunctional accomodation, two primary schools, nursery, child care, sports accomodation, neighbourhood functions Design 10.2010 - 05.2011 Construction 04.2012 - 06.2013 Client Municipality Venlo Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Pascale Leistra Project leader Marjon Main Address Vossenerlaan, Venlo Gross floor area 4.750 m² Price per m² € 1.122,- / £ 911,Building costs € 5.329.090, £ 4,331,484,0

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COMMUNITY CENTRE OP EXPEDITIE VENLO wooden wall sections and blended with ‘Discovery garden’ MFC op Expeditie (Multifunctional Centre) is situated in Blerick, a neighbourhood in Venlo existing since the seventies. Children take centre stage in this multifunctional building. The building’s design aims to contribute to an accessible atmosphere in which people can easily meet each other. The building houses a multifunctional centre, two schools, a childcare centre, a playgroup, an out-of-school care centre, a sports centre and various community facilities.

Community school with a primary school, child care and sporthall Design 12-2013 - 07.2014 Construction 08.2014 - 06.2015 Client gemeente Alphen aan den Rijn Project architect Alex Letteboer, Joke STolk Project leader Joke Stolk Adres De Boomgaard 2 en 4, Boskoop Gross floor area 2.863 m² Building cost € 2.605.620,-

COMMUNITY CENTRE WATERRIJK BOSKOOP archetypical barn shape with streamlined details Located on Boomgaard street in Boskoop, the Waterrijk community school houses the Immanuel primary school and Junis Day care Foundation. The school had a unique conception: in a short period of time a team of enthusiastic users, municipality and school committee members and designers conducted a massing study and devised a sketch design â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this was used for the tender process. This was a very bold approach for an ambitious project, and the continuation of the process was swift: in 2013 atelier PRO was engaged by the consortium to develop the design. The building opened, according to plan, in June 2015.

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Design 12.2012 - 04.2013 Construction 09.2013 - 09.2014 Client Thuisvester Project architect Dorte Kristensen en Mira van Beek Project leader JJaco de Koning, Ronald Peeters Landscape design Eline Keus Address Van den Berghstraat, Achtmaal Gross floor area 1790 m² Building costs € 1.986.966, £ 1,457,836,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE ACHTMAAL ZUNDERT special feature that fits in the neighborhood Achtmaal is a small regional centre in Noord-Brabant with approximately 1600 inhabitants. The municipality of Zundert, to which Achtmaal belongs, wanted to ensure that the centre remains attractive and liveable for both young and old in the future. In this way, good facilities play an important role, which explains why Achtmaal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which has a church, supermarket and cafe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; commissioned a multipurpose community complex. A restricted multiple-stage tender was initiated for this purpose, which was won by atelier PRO. The building accommodates various social facilities including a community centre with library, gymnasium, primary school and day care centre. Besides the multipurpose complex, five seniors residences will be built on the site of the old community centre. The project will be implemented in phases to ensure that the community centre only needs to move premises once.

Two primary schools, childcare centre, sports accomodation Design 10.2010 - 11.2011 Construction 11.2012 - 07.2014 Client De Haagse Scholen; stichting voor primair en speciaal openbaar onderwijs Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Pascale Leistra Project leader Jaco de Koning Address Cederstraat en Abeelstraat, Den Haag Gross floor area 4.700 m² Building costs: € 4.840.000, £ 3,550,100,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE MONTESSORISCHOOLS VALKENBOS DEN HAAG smart use of flexible school program

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The Christian Montessori school and Public Montessori school remain neighbours on an urban site in the district of Valkenbos, the Hague. The contemporary new building facilitates a more extensive cooperation between the two schools than previously in the original two buildings. Alongside, the building accommodates a day care centre and after school care centre, where the close proximity between the classrooms and after school care spaces is well utilised.

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Community centre with two primary schools, child care, sport and communty facilities Design 01.01.2007 - ?.?.2010 Construction 01.01.2011 - 01.06.2012 Client Municipality of Breda Project architect Alex Letteboer, Joke Stolk Project leaderJoke Stolk, Hans Tak Landscape design Eline Keus Address Mgr. Nolensplein 1, Breda Gross floor area New: 4.095 m² Renovation: 2.615 m² Price per m² € 1.192,- / £ 968,Building costs € 8.000.000, £ 6,502,400,The church building by Granpré Molière has been restored in all of its glory Authentic details and spatial structure of the church have been preserved and remain recognizable

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COMMUNITY CENTRE HUIS VAN DE HEUVEL BREDA balancing old and new Cultural centre Huis van de Heuvel stems from the reshaping and expansion of the exceptional church designed by Granpré Molière; a national monument in ‘De Heuvel’, a reconstruction neighbourhood in Breda. A part of the programme is formed by a Multifunctional Community School with a catholic and public primary school, a gymnastics hall, an extensive social cultural centre with an open house, a community worker, a youth health centre, a playgroup, a day care centre and after- school care. The existing garden between the church and the new build has been used as the connecting link, providing a winter garden and courtyard. The new schools behind the church

Left: the winter garden serves as a link between the new building and the existing building complex

Two primary schools, child care Design 07-2011 - 03-2014 Construction 04-2014 - 11-2014 Client Municipality Brielle Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Martijn Visser, Hans Tak Project leader Martijn Visser, Hans Tak. Address Sint Catharijnehof 6 Venkelstraat 18, Brielle Gross floor area 1.200 mÂ˛ Building costs â&#x201A;Ź ?

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COMMUNITY CENTRE GEUZENSCHIP BRIELLE two primary schools sharing facilities Two primary schools located in the centre of Brielle were experiencing a shortage of space: the public Meester Eeuwout school and the Geuzenschip Christian primary school, a municipal heritagelisted building from 1930. The schools are located right beside each other. To address this issue, atelier PRO designed a building that can be shared by both schools. By sharing facilities both schools optimise the use of the available space on the site. The layout of the new building is kept as clear as possible. The extension of Geuzenschip school follows the plan of the existing school with the addition of a wing with a classroom. Shared functions such as the assembly hall and playroom are positioned between both schools. New part of the school was renovated

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Community centre, three primary schools and child care Design 2012 - 2013 Construction 01.2013 - 09.2015 Client Gemeente Teylingen Project architect Alex Letteboer, Martijn de Visser Project leader Hans Tak Address Herenweg 80, Warmond Gross floor area 3.865 m² new: 1.900 m², renovation: 1.985 m² Building cost € 2.500.000,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE WARMOND a wooden wave in a lush green setting combining old and new Atelier PRO architects combined an existing community center with three new primary schools and a kindergarten. The result is a new multifunctional centre where the local schools, library, nursery, kindergarten and cultural associations have been given a place. As councillor Kees van Velzen put it during his opening speach: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The building is adapted wonderfully on a historic site: the historic heart of Warmond. Through its playful form and excellent use of materials, the building fits perfectly into the surroundings.â&#x20AC;?

Community centre with primary schools, child care, sportfacilities, psychiatric health centre, dwellings Design 06.2004 - ?.2006 Construction ?.2006 - 06.2009 Client Municipality Tilburg and TIWOS Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Pascale Leistra and Lisette Plouvier Project leader Eelko Bemener and Henry Schutte Address Wassenaerlaan 38, Tilburg Gross floor area 9.053 m² 4.500 m² neighbourhood centre 4.553 m² psychiatric health centre Price per m² € 1.034,- / £ 840,Building costs € 9.356.890, £ 7.605.280,-

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compleet buurtprogramma als klein dorp aan de brink The community centre in the Zeeheldenbuurt, together with the existing church and a convent, is organised around an inner garden with a playground. A primary school with 13 classrooms, a playgroup, a gymnastics hall and various community facilities have been gathered in this building. They come together in a central axis that leads to one main entrance. The focus lies on the meeting of the various user groups. Moreover, atelier PRO has carried out the renovation of the Mental Health Careâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day centre (GGZ).

Community centre with two primary school, child care, health centre, library, dwellings Design 07.2008 - 12-2009 Construction 01.2010 - 05.2011 Client Woonpartners Midden Holland commissioned by Municipality of Gouda Project architect Alex Letteboer and Sandrine Rointru Project leader Eelko Bemener Landscape design Eline Keus Address Wilsonplein 1, Gouda-Oost Gross floor area MFA: 4.885 m² Housing: 1.745 m² Price per m² € 1.184,- / £ 962,Building costs € 7.850.000, £ 6,380,480,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE MANDELA GOUDA making space for the neighbourhood The Nelson Mandela Centre in Gouda forms the start of a major restructuring of the Gouda East neighbourhood. Various community facilities, such as a primary school, a child care centre, playgroups, health care and sport facilities have been located around two central spaces, a lobby and central hall. Sixteen socially rented units provide liveliness and social control even after school hours. Moreover, the building redefines the surrounding public space, and due to two new squares enhances the quality of the location.

By positioning the building and its squares on the waterline, a landscape buffer is created between the school and the neighbourhood

Entrance of the MFC with apartments on top, auditorium with a gallery along the elevated schoolyard, playground with apartments on the background

Community centre with two primary schools, chil dcare and sport facilities Design 09.2011 - 04.2012 Construction 01.2013 - 04.2014 Client Gemeente Schiedam Project architect Dorte Kristensen, Sandrine Rointru Project leader Marjon Main-Roetgerink Address Thorbeckesingel 2 & Dr. Kuyperlaan 12 &12a Gross floor area 5.667 m² Building costs € 5.288.647, £ 3,885,489,-

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COMMUNITY CENTRE DAMLAAN SCHIEDAM Atelier PRO designed a children’s centre in the post-war neighbourhood of Nieuwland in Schiedam. The building is a delight for the children – whose ages range from 0 until approximately 11 – accommodating De Taaltuin, an extended primary school, and Ababil, an extended primary school for Islamic education. A playgroup space from SWS Welzijn is located in each school. The Mundo child care centre organises the day care and after school care services, and Academia also runs an after school care centre there. The Primo Schiedam Foundation manages a double gymnasium. All these functions are housed in a single building, and are intertwined with each other spatially.

School project, Antwerpen

CLEAN AIR SCHOOLS A study of atelier PRO in collaboration with the city Antwerpen, TNO Delft, TU Delft, The Why Factory, Ducth Green Building Council and Syntens Innovatie Centrum In highly urbanised areas, there still exists a demand for good, new schools. These schools are often planned on the only available sites in cities close to ring roads. Concerning air quality, these are the worst places. With the project Clean Air Schools, we want to underline the urgency of the issue and provide spatial solutions. As part of an integrated design team, we are evaluating the possibilities of using architecture to improve internal as well as external air quality. With that, we are researching the possible effects of spatial interventions on the quality of the outside air. Case Study A suitable site was found for Clean Air Schools in collaboration with the City of Antwerp. In order to conduct relevant design research, it was necessary to map the microclimate, concentrations of different air pollutants and air currents on the site. With support from the City of Antwerp, we were able to obtain relevant data from existing measurements. We focused on the problems of particulate matter and NO2. In discussion with the City of Antwerp, it was decided to use a location on the street of Desguinlei for the case study. Located next to a ring road in an inner city area, it’s a sensitive zone in terms of air quality according to EU guidelines. The case study was developed during a ‘pressure cooker’ workshop. With a site-specific design, the design team (Alex Letteboer, Bas Woldman, Thijs Klinkhamer, Sjoerd Hoogewerf and Berit Piepgras) used a purpose-developed clean air toolbox to generate concepts and translate them into the final design. These tools are spatial interventions that can be utilised to help improve air quality on the exterior (and interior) of a building. During different sessions throughout the design process, the findings and design proposals were evaluated with the City of Antwerp, The Why Factory, TU Delft, Dutch Green Building Council, Imago Bouwers, and TNO. Permeable The final design is a building composed of several ‘shells’. Outside air is purified by electrostatic filters and drawn into the innermost part of the school: the classrooms. Through overpressure, this clean air can be further used elsewhere in the building: the corridors and the covered semi-public and public spaces in and around the school.

The outer shell in this system is the facade facing the ring road. This shell forms a barrier to the highway to direct the polluted air above and over the rest of Antwerp. Thanks to the staggered design of the outer façade, this creates turbulence so the air can be further mixed with cleaner air from above, thereby reducing the concentration of particulate matter. The building as a filter Electrostatic filters therefore supply clean air to the classrooms. This air is drawn into the playgrounds, semi-public spaces that are covered with glass. From here, the clean air flows outward to create better air quality in the public space near the main entrance. The playground is sheltered to create a street canyon effect with clean air. We assume that the form of the building will somewhat prevent the purified air from combining too quickly with the polluted outside air. The aim is to test this concept in a wind tunnel to see whether it really works. In this way, the design provides the possibility for classroom windows to be opened onto the covered semi-public space around the school without letting in particulate matter or soot. Here, opportunities exist for the ‘Frisse Scholen’ program to be combined with passive building. Alongside the abovementioned measures, the entire concept works towards creating an energy-neutral and pleasant school building. Additional measures include the application of an algae wall as shading and a bioreactor, a prefabricated timber structure to keep the construction site clean and ensure a comfortable internal climate, and a ‘gaatjesplafond’- a specially perforated, suspended ceiling with hidden fans - for better internal ventilation. Offgassing from building materials and furniture will also be reduced. Continuation After discussing the draft extensively with Ulf Hackauf from The Why Factory and Annemie Tormans and Jan Bel from the City of Antwerp, further good ideas arose. The design was presented during the JOQUIN conference in September 2013 to an audience of clean air experts: their reactions were very positive. The general conclusion is that the prediction of airflow is very difficult. Therefore in order to achieve good results, we will need to conduct further research in wind tunnels and eventually build a prototype.

Gerrit Rietveld College Utrecht lies along an access road and was designed as a building block with a Clean Air courtyard for students and teachers.

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All sums mentioned in this booklet are exclusive of VAT, fees, ground costs, furnishings, connection expenses; they include risk cover, salaries and materials, at completion price levels. Convertion date â&#x201A;Ź into ÂŁ 12-18-2012