ADP architects and SH Studio designed an extension to
accommodate the new media library of a secondary
school in Drachten (the Netherlands). The extension is located in a court of
the existing building of the school and carefully designed to maintain a good view
from the surrounding classrooms on the first floor of the existing building. The
roof of the extension is located on eye height when you are on the first floor,
the sky is still in sight, but there is also a visual connection with the
library on the ground floor.
The timber construction of the new media library is built
up from oak beams, it gives the new media library its very own identity, the
warm and friendly ambiance of a greenhouse, very suitable to make homework in
small groups or individually.