The Vrije Basisschool in Lebbeke is a primary school with around 350 pupils aged between 2 ½ and 12.
Since the buildings were over a century old, they were no longer suitable for contemporary needs. The buildings were demolished in order to create the perfect site for the building of a completely new school.

The design will include classrooms, refectories, a sports hall, multi-functional rooms, offices, play areas, day-care facilities, parking spaces and environmental aspects. The school does not just expect the classrooms to be active 'places of learning', but also that the whole building radiates the notion of 'learning'. Corridors, common areas and suchlike must be able to be used as 'learning laboratories'.

The entire site is around 1 hectare in size and is located on Brusselsesteenweg, which is currently still Lebbeke's main arterial road, but which will soon experience less traffic thanks to the renovation of an alternative route. The construction site is located just next to the new OCMW centre that is soon to be built and which together with the school will form a services centre. A park area is planned for the site, which is intended to become the green lung of the school and which the local authorities intend should be at least partly public, enabling spontaneous integration between the residents of the rest home to the rear of the site and the children of the school.

Running through the middle of the area is the Kleine Beek, which can potentially be repositioned on the site and which offers opportunities to do justice to the site. The school believes it is important that the whole site enters into a dialogue with the surrounding area and that the school can also function outside school hours in order to serve the local community.

Please note: In their statement of motivation for each model project for which they apply three candidates must list reference projects from their portfolio. The following information must be supplied with respect to these reference projects: the client, a description and the cost price of the services and the estimated cost price of the completed project.

Overall fee core team 80,78 €/sq.m excluding VAT