Primary School in Lebbeke
- Jakob Schoof
Many details of the new primary school in Lebbeke, Belgium, a small municipality in the triangle between Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent, are not evident at first sight. Extending along the main street is a two-storey, steel skeleton frame with white-painted brick infill. Only at certain points is this continuous walling interrupted by latticework gratings. Built for 450 pupils between the ages of three and twelve, the school building itself, which is open on all sides, is separated from the outer facade by a roughly 4.50-metre-wide buffer zone. Internally, the constructional principle is continued in a slightly modified way. The white-painted steel skeleton frame forms the overall visible structure of the building. Laid on top of this are in-situ concrete slabs rigidly fixed to the steel beams by means of shear connectors that are welded on.
