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Schoolgarden in Roosendaal
Educational Building Development in Holland – design by RO&AD architecten
29 Apr 2017
Schoolgarden
Architects: RO&AD architecten
Location: Roosendaal, The Netherlands
Schoolgarden

A neighbourhood family had a redundant piece of land, and offered that to ?Het Da Vinci College? , a school for animal care and gardening, with pupils who require additional support.

They didn?t know where this would end, because there was a plot, lots of enthusiasm, involvement, from the school, neighbourhood and city council, but neither the skills, nor the money to realise the project. That?s where RO&AD architects stepped in.
With help of the Province of Noord-Brabant, Visavis Landscape designers, who gave a small budget, they designed a plan which made it possible to be made by the teachers, the pupils, and the neighbourhood themselves. It is a 6 meters wide and 100 meters long timber structure, with relatively easy to make trusses, which are held together by nail plates. All rooms, like the classroom, animal room, greenhouses etc are placed in a row, without any room and money devouring things like halls or hallways.

When Rini, a teacher at the school, saw this, he became so enthusiastic, that he offered to make the building himself. And that is what happened. He postponed his retirement for 2 years, and together with neighbours, students and lots o...