The view from the corner of the Coornhertstraat leaves no doubt that this really is a special school! It is a school that spreads its wings between the green schoolyards in a gesture of welcome. Two schools within a single safe and orderly building. Two schools with their own target audience of pupils with learning impediments or a troubled family history, but also with prospects. This school offers prospects, opportunities to develop and grow, opportunities to provide a point of focus in the neighborhood as well as in the development of the children.

A clear-cut and open atmosphere combined with orderly spatial arrangements are essential to the children of De Kleine Wereld and the Cor Emous School. The gyms have been raised, opening up the ground floor to create a sense of space, order and orientation to those who enter. Daylight enters from above along the gyms, guiding pupils on their way to the right school and a place of their own.
Language forms a central theme in both schools, with the alphabet in round tiles on the wall leading up to the entrance providing both orientation and a stimulus to learn.






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Details

PROGRAM
Integrated school complex with two elementary schools (one for special needs), nursery, day care centre, library and gyms

START PROJECT
2012

COMPLETION
2015

CLIENT
Gemeente Den Haag, Den Haag

ADDRESS
van Ruysbroekstraat 5, 7, 11, Den Haag

ADVISORS
Royal Haskoning DHV, Rotterdam | Pieters Bouwtechniek, Amsterdam | DGMR, Den Haag

PHOTOGRAPHY
Michel Kievits
SURFACE (GFA)
5441 sqm

EXECUTION
Vink + Veenman, Nieuwkoop

PARTICULARITIES
One of the two schools is for special education.

PUBLICATIONS
Schooldomein, Twee scholen in één gebouw, November 2016
De Architect, BBS Moerwijk is spil in de buurt, July 2016
Architectenweb magazine, Tekens aan de wand, July 2016
Archello, BBS Moerwijk, July 2016

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