Schoolgarden

RO&AD architects has completed a school for animal care and gardening in Roosendaal, The Netherlands. The plot was a redundant piece of land, offered by a neighborhood family. Dutch architects designed a plan which made it possible to be realised 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. Neighbours are now taking down their fences to get access to the school garden. They take care of the plants and the animals during the holidays, and the students finally have a place where they can be proud of to work on.

Schoolgarden “De Buitenkans”, Roosendaal, The Netherlands
Program: school
Architect: RO&AD architecten
Design team: Ad Kil, Ro Koster, Tamara Giesbers, Chris Bakens
Landscape design: Vis-a-Vis
Structural engineering: ABR
Contractor: Bergh Bouw
Area: 600 sqm
Completion: 2017