Artist/Designer: Jurgen Bey
Project Location: Netherlands
Style/Period(s):
Contemporary
Primary Material(s):
Metal, Textile, Paint
Function(s):
Classroom, Education
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
21st Century, 2006
Additional Information:
Project Description:
Bey's interiors for the ROC Professional Training School feature classrooms divided by fabric screens, and floors made of Senso Freeze (a material that allows for incorporating digital photo images into the permanent floor matrix). The overriding patterns on classroom walls, floor, and furnishings are taken from the textbooks the students of the school would be using and combined into a whimsical, unique space, where the students' very thought and inspiration is printed throughout their workspace. It must be stressed, however, that the ROC Professional Training School provides vocational training to high school graduates who can, indeed, "handle" such an invigorating interior; whether such patterns would be appropriate for the elementary-school classrooms full of easily-distracted children, is for the child psychologists to decide.
Publications/Text in Print-
Bey, Jurgen. Broken white. Eindhoven: Design Academy Eindhoven, 2016.
Phillips, Andrea, and Markus Miessen. Actors, Agents, and Attendants: Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health. Amsterdam: SKOR, 2012.
Building Address:
Laan van de Mensenrechten 500
7331 VZ Apeldoorn
Netherlands
Tags:
classroom, education, contemporary interior, flexible, white, gray, functionalism, open design
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