Oscar Romero school

Location: Hoorn, the Netherlands
Status: Study
Year: 2016
Team: Joost Barendregt, Emiel Lamers

In collaboration with Emiel Lamers Architectures.

The Oscar Romero school in Hoorn suffered from many extensions to the building that followed after the rapid growth in the last decades. We were selected to make a study for the future of the school building We created a strategy to simplify the school structure  and to prepare the school for a focus on sports education. In the new design, the different floors are connected with big open spaces, a new sports facility is added on the north side. The new entrance hall faces that sports facility and looks over a new square.