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JUNIOR COLLEGE JULIANADORP

SEARCH, 2004-2007, Akkerbouwstraat 1, Julianadorp

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
SeARCH

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Kathrin Hanf
Elke Demyttenaere
Bjarne Mastenbroek

BUILDING TYPE:
Buildings for education

All classrooms of this school for various forms of secondary education lie off an upward-spiralling ramp. This configuration give maximum freedom in allotting more or fewer classrooms to each school type. This in turn generates a round building whose roofed atrium can act as a schoolyard. Giving directly onto a general assembly hall, the atrium has a semi-transparent air cushion roof. On the ground floor are taller subject rooms, the school canteen and the staffrooms. The external facade is of aluminium panels with gold and silver-coloured coatings. Inside, shades of green predominate; the 350-metre-long ramp has its own aluminium panels decorated with an intaglio pattern of holes.