Floriande Public Library

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The Floriande Public Library is one of five branches of the Haarlemmermeer Public Library and is located in the quarter Floriande in Hoofddorp, municipality Haarlemmermeer (near Amsterdam Airport Schiphol). The library is directly connected to the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum, a secondary school which has 1.500 students.

By building a wide ranging integrated school, communal library, and space for sport and social-cultural facilities in a setting that is still under construction. Haarlemmermeer’s Floriande quarter and its facilities come up together.

In June 1995 the township Haarlemmermeer has concluded with regional and state authorities the 4th supplement act town and country planning (‘Vinex covenant’). According to this covenant from 1995 - 2005 ca. 17.400 houses are built in the Haarlemmermeer polder. Floriande (Hoofddorp) is the biggest of four locations: 6500.

An urban quarter can be constructed, a community has to grow. To achieve this the residents must meet, get to know each other, do things together. The symbiosis of the new Floriande library and Haarlemmermeer school can be of crucial value.

The school library continues into the glazed head of the communal library. The square is meant for little benches not for bicycles. (Stored instead on the roof!) Mothers and children setting out for the library, others to sport activities. Students for a wide range of educational programmes, eye to eye on the long slow ramp connecting all floors and spaces of the school building. All functionally apart, and yet running across all the time.

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