Campus Comenius
The programme consists of a primary school, a secondary school, a kindergarten and a community centre. The school complex provides facilities for all age groups and grows with the students as they evolve through the building.
Project Education
Client Kairos
Location Koekelberg, Brussels
Area 12,500 m2
Type Commission
Team B2Ai Brussels
Timing completed in 2019
Photographs Kairos
“Bringing the community into the heart of the school”
In parallel with running SMAK, Mathias Kerremans worked as lead designer for B2Ai Brussels, designing and building the new school campus “Comenius” in Koekelberg with his team.
The campus has 4 distinct buildings and will host kids from 6 months old to 18 years old. It has a community centre, a library and a sports hall. Each function has its own identity with the community centre and sports hall in the middle in a very recognizable, red brick.
We believe the school should function as the meeting point for a whole neighbourhood, and these principles of organizing occasional encounters lay at the base of this design. The secondary school is teaching according to the principles of “project oriented education” a very new way of educating kids, supporting initiative and stimulating working in little groups, rather then just listening passively to the teachers.