Review of a book written by Natasja Hogen. ... Read more

Handbooks on strategic real estate management are generally based on four strategies for functional adjustment of the building: Conversion, expansion, renovation and adaptive reuse. And on a strategic level, this classification in adjustment strategies does work for real estate in general. But when looking at Dutch primary schools as a specific type of real estate, reality can be and is more nuanced. Other accommodation strategies came to the fore in a study into the spatial adaptation of primary schools and children’s centres in the Netherlands. An analysis of 100 school buildings studied in the Atlas of School Building (published in Dutch as Scholenbouwatlas) revealed that nine main strategies were prevalent in practice. This refinement of the strategies fits (better) with integrated conversion actions of primary schools in which several aspects are solved together. In the following article these strategies are analysed and discussed in a theoretical context. The conclusion of the analyses is that the existing general models in the strategic handling of the building stock in the case of specific real estate of primary schools can be refined. ... Read more

De Nieuwe Ambachtsschool is the result of the research project 'De Ambachtsschool Revisited' into the architecture of vocational schools and was initiated by Susanne Pietsch, Eireen Schreurs, Sereh Mandias and Dolf Broekhuizen. It was funded by the Creative Industries Fund over a period of two years. The research and this publication are now further developed into a book, to be published in 2018. ... Read more