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De Fakkel school – Community & school

Project information

Year: 2020

Status: Construction Completed

Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands

Surface: 1100 m2

Client: Basisschool De Fakkel

Team: Renet Korthals Altes, Thomas Tiel Groenestege

Description

Great school – in a newly beautifully renovated schoolbuilding by Brique architects – to design their new schoolyard. An energetic interactive participatory design process with children and teachers,  resulting in a rather large set of very diverse wishes.

Semi transparant wooden walls bring unity in the area and zone the diverse places. We created a more intimate backyard for the youngest children, with curved lines and discovery paths, re-using the old climbing iglo as it will be overgrown with willows! The front yard, public space, has a more formal character, with straight lines, a huge atelier-table out of re-used poles. The bright yellow lines in the pavement communicate with wooden facades of the new building.

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