Objective of this project
A sustainable school building that is also energy neutral, flexible and circular. The transparent plinth, which houses the media library, the incubator zone with business lobby and a grand café, makes this the lively heart of the campus. The themes of 'openness' and 'connection' are central to the design.
An inspiring and sustainable educational environment
After a European tendering procedure, Valstar Simonis, together with DGMR, won the contract for the part 'Advisor Installations, Building Physics and Fire Safety'. Paul de Ruiter Architects has been selected for the architectural design. It concerns a beautiful new building at the location Kralingse Zoom, adjacent to the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The client is the Hogeschool Rotterdam Business School.
The new multifunctional educational building will house all economic and business studies of the Hogeschool Rotterdam. The building connects to the existing educational complex that will soon total 35.000 m2 and where over 10.000 students can enjoy an inspiring and sustainable educational environment. As intensive users of the future building, these students were able to contribute ideas about what their new school should look like; in workshops, students from the college were able to explain their vision of the ideal educational environment.
The building was officially opened on October 11 and put into use by students and teachers.
SUSTAINABLE AND healthy
The complex has been designed to at least the Breeam Excellent sustainability level, with the aim of creating a healthy indoor climate in a very energy-efficient manner; for example, triple glazing is used. A lot of attention is also paid to ample fresh air, pleasant room acoustics and well-regulated temperature conditions that are regularly monitored. Daylight can enter in a controlled manner through the atrium roof and the glass facade. On the roof of the fifth floor there is a green roof with plants for birds and butterflies.
Read more about sustainable learning environments in this article.
More about this project in this video:
Photos / Images: Paul de Ruiter Architects / Valstar Simonis
Video: MVL Media Group
The complex has been designed to at least the Breeam Excellent sustainability level, with the aim of creating a healthy indoor climate in a very energy-efficient manner; for example, triple glazing is used. A lot of attention is also paid to ample fresh air, pleasant room acoustics and well-regulated temperature conditions that are regularly monitored. Daylight can enter in a controlled manner through the atrium roof and the glass facade. On the roof of the fifth floor there is a green roof with plants for birds and butterflies.
Read more about sustainable learning environments in this article.
More about this project in this video:
Photos / Images: Paul de Ruiter Architects / Valstar Simonis
Video: MVL Media Group
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