Paulien Bremmer wraps "social hub" for Gerrit Rietveld Academie in woven-steel screens
Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces.
The building, which will be used by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute, was designed by multidisciplinary design team Federation Levitation (FedLev) led by architect Paulien Bremmer, working in collaboration with local practice Hootsmans Architects.
The latest block is located opposite the independent university's main building designed by Gerrit Rietveld himself and connected by a bridge to a tower block designed by Benthem & Crouwel in the early 2000s.
The design focused on ideas of community and interdisciplinarity that Bremmer felt were underserved by the existing building on campus.
"Experimentation is key at the academy. This essentially means looking across borders and disciplines," said Bremmer.
"The autonomous departmental culture of the academy didn't contribute enough to an interdisciplinary way of working."
As a result, the ground floor of the building centres around a shared atrium-like space that weaves between classrooms that have been pushed to the edges of the plan.
With a simple concrete frame structure, corridors and isolated stairwells have been avoided entirely, with spaces arranged around concrete columns and separated by glazed partitions. A glazed facade wraps around the entire lower level, above which the first floor ...
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