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Praktijkcollege De Dreef – Teenage students called their outdoors “a prison”, they co-designed this into a lively, safe, cosy, green space and now love it

Project information

Year: 2021

Status: Construction Completed

Location: Amsterdam Centrum eiland, The Netherlands

Surface: 810 m2

Client: STAIJ

Team: Renet Korthals Altes

Description

Ambitious new climate adaptive housing area on a man made island in Amsterdam, the new schoolbuilding has an open play area and a preschool playarea, designed along with the new schoolbuilding.

To add onto this school’s label “most healthy school”, the children and teachers were loning for a transformation of their completely paved schoolyard into green and activating schoolgrounds.

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