Lyceum Schravenlant is a public secondary school for senior general secondary education and pre-university education and is part of the Schiedam Foundation for Public Secondary Education (Stichting Openbare Scholengroep Vlaardingen Schiedam: OSVS).
The new building accommodates approximately 600 pupils and, including two gym halls, has a gross surface area of about 6150 m2. Lyceum Schravenlant should serve, among other things, as a meeting place for pupils from a variety of backgrounds and be a ‘home base’ where they learn to work together in a pleasant and safe environment. With its new accommodation, the school has the ambition of operating optimally within the social context; realizing a healthy, future-orientated, multi-functional, and flexible or adaptable building with a modern and robust look.
The school should also be safe from a social point of view and easy to get to for a variety of target groups and by a variety of transport means. Schravenlant wishes to realize a small-scale warm environment within a uniformly adaptable structure, where the atmosphere and look will be determined in particular by the design.
Both the school and the municipality have very high ambitions with regard to sustainability, within which the Cradle to Cradle principle serves as an inspiration. All kinds of ways are being considered for making the school as sustainable as possible in its entirety. The concept of a long life span is the starting point for this, with the focus on the total building and period of use, in order to make sustainable solutions feasible.
This school is a new pilot project based on the philosophy of Cradle to Cradle. The ambition for this school to create a healthy, energy positive building in co-creation with the pupils makes it a real showcase for students and other parties to learn about the impact we have on the environment. The idea to use the Cradle to Cradle concept as inspiration for the new school, came from the students themselves. Since they are the most important stakeholder, their initiative has been and will be fully supported by teachers, management and municipality. The involvement of students in their new school is absolutely crucial to realize a positive learning environment. The students’ creativity, behavior and consciousness on what is important in a learning environment are crucial input for the design and have been involved in the final results.
The building has been awarded with several nominations and awards like the award for sustainable architecture in the Netherlands 2014.
The building has to provide in its own energy. In 10 years it has to produce a surplus of energy.
The building has to be an educational instrument for the pupils getting taught in it.
The building has to provide living space for small regional wild life.
Green in on and around the building has to provide clean air.
Materials can be reused in other circumstances
The building can adapt to as well shrink as growth of users
The building can be adapted to a different kind of user
Classrooms, sports accommodation, offices, meeting rooms.
Project Architect:
Thomas Bögl LIAG architecten en bouwadviseurs
Project Engineers & Contractors:
Installations: Vintis – Zoetermeer
Projectmanagement: HEVO – Den Bosch
Civil Engineer: Van de Laar – Eindhoven
Interieur: Ateliers – Delft
Consultant Building Physics: Peutz – Mook
⁂ Integrate Biological Nutrients, Enhance Air Quality and Indoor Climate, Healthy Materials (Material Re-Use, Carbon Management)
⁂ Integrate Renewable Energy
⁂ Actively Support Biodiversity, Celebrate Cultural Diversity
Positive Impact
Pupils developed the school together with the architects. This is made visible in the school on different levels like the walls, the entrance desk or the cushions on the central stair case.
The school has a living wall in the central hall to clean air, produce oxygen and enhance acoustic qualities of the hall.
Bamboo as a fast growing grass is used for the walls
All flooring is C2C certified
Lots of natural daylight enters the building via the atrium
Very good acoustics in the atrium make it a pleasant place to be
The central staircase with its seats is used as a central meeting space for all users
Benefits
Stakeholders:
Get to know about materials.
To get involved in the project on a professional manner by designing parts of it themselves makes people proud of their project.
The texts designed by the pupils on the walls remember them all the time what it’s all about.
Used Materials
MOSO Bamboo
FORBO Marmoleum
DESSO flux
MOSA tiles
Gyproc A
Optigroen
KE-Fibertec Cradlevent
⁂ Enhance Air Quality and Indoor Climate, Healthy Materials (Material Re-Use, Carbon Management)
⁂ Celebrate Conceptual Diversity with Innovation, Celebrate Cultural Diversity
Positive Impact
Materials are used longer and bring colour and a vivid spirit into the building as for example with the building signs used as wall cladding.
The old tables are cleaned and a sticker is added which refers to a website maintained by pupils. This website educates about C2C and sustainability in general. In that way, pupils are involved in the explanation of the school.
Old lockers are cleaned and reused.
Benefits
they get high quality without having to pay for it
They have as new furniture not noticing that they are reused
⁂ Integrate Biological Nutrients, Enhance Air Quality and Indoor Climate, Enhance Water Quality, Healthy Materials (Carbon Management)
⁂ Actively Support Biodiversity
Positive Impact
Green roofs enhance air quality and support biodiversity
Rainwater is collected and used in the building
Energy production on the roofs
The roofs are prepared to install windmills in the future as well
Benefits
Energy is produced and so the maintenance costs are reduced
Biodiversity is improved in the area by a smaller footprint of the new building and green roofs
Rainwater can infiltrate the ground and help to keep a sound water table
⁂ Enhance Air Quality and Indoor Climate, Healthy Materials (Material Re-Use)
⁂ Integrate Renewable Energy
Positive Impact
All four facades are designed to fit their orientation and guarantee a maximum of solar gain without too much heat.
Highly insulated facades
Light shelfs bring daylight deep into the building.
Benefits
Natural daylight can be used all day long without problems of heat gain.
All materials of the facade can be reused in the future.
Maintenance costs are very low due to the high level of insulation and the selected materials.
Used Materials
Aluminum
Steel
Polycarbonate
⁂ Healthy Materials (Defined Intended Use Pathway)
⁂ Material choices were based on C2C principles
Positive Impact
During the process certain materials as PVC were replaced by better ones like PE.
Benefits
Materials are healthy and will contribute to occupant’s health and well-being.
⁂ Enhance Air Quality and Indoor Climate
Positive Impact
The technical room is situated in a manner that a minimum of piping had to be build.
Some of the air ducts are visible in the building to enhance the understanding of pupils about building technology.
Parts of the air ducts are made from a C2C fabric.
Benefits
Less maintenance costs
No draught in classrooms
Education can take place on the real-life installation of the building.
Used Materials
KE-Fibertec Cradlevent
⁂ Enhance Water Quality
Positive Impact
A grey water system has been installed so potable water is not used for flushing toilets.
Benefits
87% of drinking water is saved.
The saving is showed in the central hall to all pupils to create awareness.
⁂ Integrate Renewable Energy
Positive Impact
PV-cells and boilers are generating energy for the building.
An energy storage system allows us to use summer heat for heating the building in the winter.
Benefits
Low energy costs
There are no delights.
