Education and sport campus
Barendrecht, The Netherlands
The Focus Vocational Academy is a multifunctional vmbo-school with a NOC*NSF sports facility and a PLUS-program specifically geared to external parties that collaborate with the school. The school and the sports facilities are housed in two separate buildings that are embedded in the landscape along the Dierensteinweg in Barendrecht.
The design can be characterized as follows:
organic, flexible and sustainable, with a green and lush campus backdrop.
The building facilitates all its education functions around a central atrium filled with daylight, where education and practice have all the space to converge. The buildings form is appealing, inviting and noticeable.