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Panta Rhei
location
Pandora, Amstelveen
client
Futuris school community
project team
Snelder architecten
photography
Luuk Kramer
interior design
i29
completion
2010
new constructionof a school community for VMBO/MAVO, ISK and LWOO with 740 students
Education is provided according to a methodology in which classrooms have been replaced by larger core teams, in which learning takes place more independently and in a competency-oriented manner.
The 21st century student does not only learn in classrooms, but is also independent enough to store and process information in other places in the building. The chance encounters in the building are of great importance. For housing, this means that the student must be offered a place to appropriate the school, as it were. The role of the building is facilitating, with space and freedom for the student to give his own interpretation.
poetry and flexibility
Anyone who enters the new Panta Rhei building will certainly notice the poems that have been incorporated into the marmoleum floor in various places. Thanks to various interviews with students, poet Erik Jan Harmens wrote more than twenty appealing works. The poems tell about items from the world of experience of growing teenagers such as respect, bullying, falling in love, but also creativity.
An important aspect of the appearance and interior of the new school was the concept of flexibility. This is also clearly visible in the classrooms. The time of purely frontal education is definitely a thing of the past.