Jakoba Mulderhuis
Perfectly Engineered
Forming a welcoming gateway to the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences campus, our new Jakoba Mulderhuis building bridges the academic world and the city. It gracefully embraces the past through a dynamic relationship with its surroundings, while its flexible interior leaves space to accommodate future educational requirements. Advancing the notion of furthering knowledge through personal exchanges, a high degree of transparency and fluidity places meetings and accidental encounters at the heart of the building, in our soaring, light-filled atrium.
Scientific encounters
Scientific encounters
Designed by Powerhouse Company together with Architekten Cie and Marc Koehler Architects, the new university center houses facilities for disciplines from building engineering to aviation. These are revealed to each other – and encouraged to mix – by the soft edges of our atrium. Each department has its own floor, with a showcase terrace forming its lively public face. Through this intervention, the building embodies the concept of further knowledge through human interaction. The atrium’s soft edges also ensure a balance with the existing buildings next door, while the off-center landmark tower and lower-level block together make an emphatic yet friendly gesture to the outside world.
The open environment promotes the communication of knowledge in a natural way. We call this blended learning.’
Education is changing rapidly, so flexibility is central to the design.’
Site Plan
First Floor
Section
Blended learning
Educational Theatre
Educational Theatre
Jakoba Mulderhuis is all about inspiring cross-pollination of ideas in an open, creative environment. The flexible set-up allows teaching staff to customize their rooms with a mixture of teaching forms and spatial set-ups: group work at table islands, classrooms, labs, quiet study places and meeting areas – so-called blended learning. As we partly are the first generation of Amsterdam UAS graduates to have been taught on the basis of project-oriented education in the former Leeuwenburg building, we gave our positive experiences of blended learning maximum expression in the new design.
Inspiring without boundaries
Elegantly Integrated
