IKC de Geluksvogel / UArchitects

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Maastricht, The Netherlands
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East side playground. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

Text description provided by the architects. This a unique sustainable and digital school in the Netherlands.

Two existing schools in two neighbouring locations in Maastricht are merging into a new school on a new location in that city. This particular location was chosen to strengthen the weak social structure of the two neighbourhoods and to introduce a new digital education system to learn also more about the environment, nature and sustainability.

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Even the playground outside has different zones to help children (re)discover nature and explore their world by means of experiments or to build and test objects.

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South side. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

The digital way of teaching is for the most part paperless (virtual), which is represented in the architecture of the building. It shows a brick element with random messages in binary code (1 and 0) on the façade, as a reflection of this digitalized education system and the virtual reality in which we live today. The façade acts as the messenger of our digital world. Not in a direct, obvious way but more indirect, by the irregular placing of the bricks in patterns.

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Ground floor plan
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IKC de Geluksvogel  / UArchitects - Exterior Photography, Facade
East side playground. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

This is a school that holds a kindergarten, a primary school, a gym and a library. A school with different types of users that work closely together to combine environmental and digital teaching to reach a new level of education. The concept of environmental teaching can be found on different levels, from virtual reality to the building itself, making it the green and modern digital school.

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Ground floor open classes. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

Both the school and the building are not designed around a classically organized educational system but around the concept of free movement and free use of spaces. We used the concept of a flock of birds to predict the movement of the users (children) through the building, which is how we designed the various spaces in the school. The educational space in the school is not limited to the classrooms but can continue in different open spaces with a different purpose. This open plan will encourage the free flow between and use of the spaces; education will not be limited by walls or doors. It even continues outside to the playground and the terraces on the first floor.

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mainstair ground floor . Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

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Address:Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Cite: "IKC de Geluksvogel / UArchitects" 23 Sep 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/880091/ikc-de-geluksvogel-uarchitects> ISSN 0719-8884

East side. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

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