Educational Architecture in Doetinchem, Netherland - Metzo School by Erick Van Egeraat

Located in Doetinchem, a City in the East of the Netherlands, achitect Erick Van Egeraat has delivered an educational architecture Metzo College, that houses a school for vocational education as well as public sport facilities. The new building replaces three existing school buildings. On a total gross floor area of 16.000 m2 the school accommodates 1.300 students between ages 12 to 16.

The project has been initiated in order realise a building which offers space for education and provides for better social cohesion between the different student groups that exist within the vocational education system.

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The integration of the publicly accessible sports facilities increases the social character of the school and makes it an educational building with an unusually public character.