rsg Slingerbos

school building renovation

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RSG Slingerbos was designed in 1981. Several extensions date from 1989, 1991, and 2003.
During the crisis of the 1980s, the building was constructed in such a “sober and functional” manner that there was little extra space, flexibility, or spatial diversity. The pragmatic design no longer matched the educational ambitions, which included not only classroom teaching but also individual teaching programs and mutual cooperation.
A number of substantial interventions meant that, despite limited financial resources, the building was transformed into a completely different type of school; it is no longer a traditional ‘corridor school’.

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The original layout was linear: classrooms linked by a corridor. The main entrance and the auditorium were located at random points along this corridor. In the new situation, the dead ends of the corridors have been short-circuited at various points, giving the building a central spatial organization, with the new auditorium as its center, directly at the main entrance.
The building has two floors, originally connected only by a few emergency stairwells. By creating a large atrium and making the auditorium double-height, spatial relationships are created between the functions on the ground floor and the upper floor.