Vitalis College is a practice-based, regional educational centre on the northern side of the city of Breda. The College is situated in a quiet and leafy residential district, where several schools can be found. In this college, the trainings for personal care, medical care and social services will be located.
At the back of the parcel, near the sports fields, the parking place for cars and bicycles is situated. The front side of the school borders the street, but between the school and the parking place there is plenty of room to create a large open and leafy outdoor space. This will also be the training area for the cluster ‘safety’.
Flexibility Education is always in motion, ideas about education keep changing and new fields of study are always emerging. Therefore, an educational building has to have an open structure, so that it can adjust to new didactic developments, at any time and without any effort. That is why the ground floor and the first floor have been mainly arranged in a neutral way. Here, all the students meet, and this construction will be designed to allow a high level of flexibility. Above this neutral lower section, ‘towers’ have been placed where the various specific clusters can have their own domain and habitus. The lower section and the clusters are connected by stairs and voids, which are positioned in the heart of the clusters.
