4003 _ SCHOOLYARD LIVING ROOM

StudioJanaFlohr. in collaboration with Frederike Top produced by De Kok staalbouw - 2009 - powdercoated steel - public space

The Norbertus College in Roosendaal celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2009/2010, to honour this event StudioJanaFlohr. and Frederike Top were commissioned to design a new artpiece for the schoolyard.

The schools' Art Committee used words like 'dynamic', 'growing', 'the schoolyard as the domain of the students', 'colourful', 'contemporary' and 'interactive'.

In a fruitful collaboration with Frederike Top, an experimental 'schoolyard living room' was designed, with room for the students to add their own input to the design.

The shape of the furniture in the 'living room' is derived from sketch-like pen drawings, pulled into a 3-dimensional world, and eventually shaped of steel tubes like a climbing frame.

Publication here.

The office chair.

Table and couch.

Festive unveiling of the piece.

Covered with fabric, ready to be unveiled.

Installation of the piece in the schoolyard.

Pieces in the factory, before application of the coating.

Maquette of the piece.

First rendered presentation of the concept.