School ?t Hofke Building, Eindhoven Building Project, Dutch Interior Architecture Images
School ?t Hofke Building in Eindhoven
3 Apr 2020
School ?t Hofke
Design: UArchitects
Location: Eindhoven, Holland

School ?t Hofke is a special primary school because there are 5 different groups of users who work together in one building, and use the facilities together for education, care, sports and neighborhood facilities. It consists of 16 classrooms, 3 groups for a daycare, 1 group for extra-curricular activities, 1 nursery school/kindergarten and one gym. The building has a social connection to the neighbourhood and also has rooms available for associations that want to use the extra consultation and meeting rooms.

Starting in 2006, in total this project took 6.5 years for our firm to prepare, including an interim suspension by the local authorities and ultimately with the construction work taking 1.5 years. The project is characterized by a number of important preconditions for which intensive and lengthy consultations were required, in order to reach agreement and consensus with all the interested parties in the neighborhood.
When we won the project at the end of 2005 after being in competition with other architectural firms, it was on the basis of our proposal in which the existing school would be maintained, renovated and partly extended with a new build.

As architects we made a strong case for our proposal, but during the design process over the years, it turned out t...