The Liemers College VMBO (pre-vocational secondary education) school is built in Zevenaar. The scheme is subdivided into a school with sports facilities plus outdoor areas.
A BUSTLING SCHOOL
The Liemers College educational vision focuses on Cultural Education, Nature & Technology and Sustainability in the broadest sense of the word. The LIAG design reflects this vision by creating spaces that stimulate pupils and teachers to work together and inspire one another within a transparent, open environment, without losing the desired compactness. A balance has been found between private and public, by creating various workspaces, such as individually screened workplaces and information pillars, as well as areas that stimulate interaction. As such the building provides a spatial response to the demand for cooperation and mutual inspiration.
AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN FOR THE SCHOOL
The schoolyard is raised and is accessible via large, broad steps. The technology teaching areas are situated underneath the schoolyard. Among other things, the two floors above that house the canteen, two gymnasiums, a theatre and various teaching areas. The large glass facades lend these two floors with a pavilion character. The third floor has an overhang across these two pavilion floors and houses teaching areas, staff rooms as well as two large patios that bring much daylight into the building. This overhang serves as a sun-awning for the areas below, which in turn yields energy advantages.
AN ENERGY EFFICIENT SCHOOL
The Liemers College works with so-called sub-schools, which is why the LIAG vision reflects on flexibility and multi-functionality as best it can, by opting for a column structure that provides for an easily modifiable ground plan for the future. In addition, the instruction area doubles up as the circulation area. This has resulted in a compact, energy-saving, building. The right sustainable choices, such as a biomass installation, vegetation roof and solar panels. The patios will enable daylight to penetrate deep into the building, thus creating an optimally pleasant indoor climate.