Place
Schiedam
Type
School
Completed
2025
Client
Lindenhof School Board
Floor area
4,200 m²
A primary school for 420 pupils on a sloping site, completed in 2025.
The brief
The school had outgrown two old buildings on either side of a busy road. The board wanted one building on one site that children could walk to safely.
The design
The site drops four metres from the street to the park. The younger classes sit at park level with their own gardens. The older classes are one floor up, looking out over the trees. Every classroom has windows on two sides, so the lights stay off for most of the day.
The brick comes from a works in Gelderland, thirty kilometres away. Inside, the ceilings are timber, which keeps the rooms quiet.
The result
The school opened in August 2025. In its first year it used 40 percent less energy than the two old buildings together.
From drawing to building
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