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Architects: Yushi Uehara / Zerodegree ArchitectureLocation: Techum, De Zuidlanden, The NetherlandsClient: City of LeeuwardenProject Year: 200

The project is framed in the Zuidlanden housing urban project that aims to alter the Dutch suburb.Zerodegree Architecture, the Amsterdam-based office of Japanese architect Yushi Uehara, has designed Elementary School complex on the ancient village core of the area. The building stands next to a monument, a farmhouse built in a local style.

The architectural project started as a research on a temporary facility, its location and its capacity. The study was followed by typological research on ‘ideal’ school building for the area. The study included innovative analysis of Dutch school architecture prize winners. The project moved on to become permanent at point when it was clear that neighborhood gains from such project.

My interest was to constitute architecture with functionalist disciplines while molding it in a roof shaped envelope of regional farm house. I aimed to realize a variety of functional scripts; programming a number of working animation of this building.The school was given transparency of its education by applying large amount of glasses in interior. In doing so the clients were convinced that it will anchor users of the region to the school.

Under this large roof there are 15 class rooms on three floors, one sport hall and two kindergardens. The building has diamond shaped foot print above which one roof with polygonal form raise. Besides the client designate three elementary schools of different disciplines to use one building, while in five years time it will be used by one school as the neighborhood grows. Therefore, realizing a building structure that allows two to three simultaneous activities in one building was considered as a crucial quality that activate the potential of every square meters of this building

Elementary School Complex at Techum

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Educational Rooms

Administrative

Public Areas

Facilities

Circulation

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