Cities are expanding and populations growing, the phenomenon of global urbanization causes cities to change. Rotterdam is the most progressive vertical urban city in The Netherlands. Starting from the 1990’s Rotterdam’s high-rise strategy caused the city to densify its city center. The vertical expansion is set to grow even more, especially in the city center. Which is expected to grow exponentially as Rotterdam is building more 50.000 homes in the city center aiming for people and most importantly families. Our group vision enforces living in the city center by supporting the city living by redesigning the urban public space and our projects that take on the specific missing functions.
One of these important missing functions in the Rotterdam city centre is education. But the conventional Dutch school typology is no longer applicable to the dense urban city. This results in the typology of the urban school which has not yet been explored in the Dutch setting. The Rotterdam Urban School explores new urban educational typologies in a building combining diverse student bodies. The Internal design of the project will enforce 21st century concepts of learning in its design.