The
context of the Sports Campus Leidsche Rijn is within a newly built housing
district in the periphery of Utrecht. The proposed configuration aims to contribute
a rather public and iconographic aspect to the predominantly low-rise area,
lacking points of recognition. At the same time social interaction among the
students was simplified and supported. Therefore the two schools, divided up
into four wings stretched out till terrain boundaries, are organized around a
centrally positioned volume containing the shared facilities. The so defined
yards, varying in surface and geometry, give orientations, multiple visual
connections and draw the entire mass to scale. The campus accommodates next to
its educational program, a gymnasium and a vocational school, in and outdoor
sports facilities and a cultural centre. The various uses are integrated within
one solitary structure, where they complement as well as differentiate each
other.