Accommodation for the craft of education: Secondary school for crafts education in Amsterdam North

The assignment was to choose a location in A’dam North for a school with extra-ordinary attention to crafts. The department for Horti Culture and for Cooking+Restaurant provide an opportunity to relate to the Florapark nearby the location and to bring in the public from the neighbourhoods nearby. The departments for Carpentry and Metalworking relate to the crafts which were present at the location during the shipbuilding’s era. The building, with its face to the market square of the Mosplein, is placed on an axis which slices the riverbanks of the IJ and the residential and public/green areas. At the same time an axis, the inner street, is introduced in the design of the school. Public facilities as the restaurant are situated at both ends of this axis as an attempt to connect a compact building, as introvert as an school can be, to the rest of the city.Interiors; Studio Back to SchoolArchitectur