The Technikon building in Rotterdam is famous. Designed by Hugh Maaskant between 1955 and 1970, it is the example of postwar modernism in Holland. Bold, big (as Maaskant liked it) en monumental in structure, appearance and programming the building gives way to the possitive atmosphere in rebuilding the city center of Rotterdam – so heavily bombed during the last war – in an new and modern way.
Being able to renovate the biggest part of the building to accomodate the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam gave us the possibility to rethink the spatial solutions for their open educational curriculum.