Extension of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut

Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
9. 9月 2019
Photo: Jeroen Verrecht
Project: Extension of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, 2019
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Client: Stichting Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Program: Workshops, studio spaces, auditorium, library, meeting rooms, film studio, outdoor area
Architect: Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
  • Team (competition to structural design): Paulien Bremmer with Maze de Boer, Sandra Stanionyte, Luca Carboni and Marjan van Herpen, Joost Huyzer, Akira Negishi, Jan Willem Petersen, Luuc Sonke, Victor Verhage, Stephanie Willocx
  • Team (preliminary design to inauguration): Fedlev: Paulien Bremmer, Marjan van Herpen, Joost Huyzer, Anne Dessing, Alexander Lefebvre, Anastasia Pandilovska, Milan Rikhof, Luuc Sonke, Vincka Struben, Claudia Temperilli. Hootsmans architects: Rob Hootsmans, Daan Petri, Carlota Alvarado, Remco Bruggink, René Bos, Elke Demyttenaere, Pier Helder, Viktor van Hooff, Jeroen Kreijne, Eric van Noord
Interior Design: Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
Interior Design (Sandberg Instituut): Studio Anne Dessing
Interior Design (library): Nils Norman and Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
Garden Design: Jan Konings
Design Street Furniture: Chris Bakker, Anna Navndrup
Design Ceramic Wall: Caro de Jonge
Design Auditorium Curtain: Anastasia Starostenko
Furniture Wood Workshop: Workshop managers and Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
Supervision Partial Designs: Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
Project Management Partial Designs: Femke Bijlsma
Contractor: Bouwbedrijf M.J. de Nijs en Zonen
Construction Preparation: ABT Ingenieurs
Construction Advice: BREED Integrated Design
Building Physics and Installations Advice: moBius consult
Project Management: Van Doorn Management for Architecture, ICS Adviseurs and ABT Ingenieurs
Photo: Jeroen Verrecht
User Expertise and Experiment

With regard to the selection of the architects, the art academy decided to stay close to the character of the community and launch an in-house competition. Fedlev won. This cooperative of designers has turned its user expertise into a concept. "Experimentation is key at the academy. This essentially means looking across borders and disciplines. The autonomous departmental culture of the academy didn’t contribute enough to an interdisciplinary way of working," says architect and Fedlev initiator Paulien Bremmer. The starting point for the expansion was a scenario for the creation of a collective, interdisciplinary educational environment. The result is a landscaped building: a backdrop to making, meeting and exchange.

Photo: Johannes Schwartz
Interaction as a Starting Point

In the preliminary design stage, Fedlev entered into a partnership with Hootsmans architects. The new building, completed in January 2019, has a rectangular floor plan and consists of three layers, one below ground level and the top one cantilevered. Next to each other on the street side are the wood workshop and the library. The spaces on the first floor are earmarked for students of the Sandberg Instituut. Other spaces in the building are shared, including facilities such as the assembly hall, the auditorium and the film studio.

At the ground level, a modest reshuffle of the existing buildings’ programs made room for a shared space around the base of the building. The extension’s glass façade can be opened in many places, facilitating interaction in the space between the buildings. A communal roof area that is suitable for exhibitions, performances and the making of temporary constructions gives the new building back the space the extension occupies on the ground.

To stimulate interdisciplinary activity, the architects created project spaces on different floors throughout the buildings. The spaces offer students the opportunity to work and experiment freely, separate from the departmental structure.

Photo: Jeroen Verrecht
Architectural Finishing

Part of a landscaped spatiality, the building’s floors and functions are connected in various ways. Transparency and visual links characterize the interior. There are no stairwells or corridors, which means the making process is always visible and interdisciplinary exchange is always possible.

Varying, often industrially executed floors and walls define successive places. The diversity of spaces is increased by the introduction of the ‘white spaces’ in the design: parts of the interior designed and executed by third parties in the community.

The smart and low-tech construction of the exterior façade creates natural ventilation and thus keeps the number of technical installations to a minimum. The overhangs and the woven-steel façade limit heating by incident sunlight. Beneath the overhangs are transitional spaces that people can claim as work spaces.

The building is a social hub that quite naturally accommodates and spatially connects education, encounter, relaxation and collectivism and in which changing perspectives inform the educational environment. It is an interactive and dynamic setting for making and experimenting; a building that generates ideas, thoughts and works.

Photo: Johannes Schwartz
Photo: Johannes Schwartz
Photo: Jeroen Verrecht
Photo: Johannes Schwartz
Photo: Johannes Schwartz

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