special report: building for education
‘The design has focused on ensuring that all facilities are fully accessible, while including specialist areas’
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specifically the ones where provision has been made for their physical disabilities, enabling easy access to the building and curriculum. The class- rooms have been designed to ensure the assis- tants have room to work plus space for visiting therapists and storage for mobility equipment. The design has focused on ensuring that all
facilities are fully accessible, while including spe- cialist areas such as a sensory room and hydro- therapy pool to address specific needs.
texture and natural appearance of Kebony creates a contrast between the hardness of the traditional brick and the transparency of the glazed curtain walls, forming an unusual combination of mate- rials. The newly-developed school needed to reflect Colindale’s inclusive community ethos and there- fore look inviting and accessible to its young users. The ‘timber fins’ add character to the build and bridge the all important oak tree branches that lie at the heart of the scheme and the modern forward-looking approach of the new school. Jan Terje Nielsen, director of marketing for
Kebony, comments: “Kebony is very pleased to be involved in this exciting project, heralding the future of cutting edge sustainable building. Our product is perfectly suited to projects such as this – environmentally friendly, hard-wearing and cost- effective – and because of this, we are seeing growing numbers of enquiries in the public sector and beyond.”
energy consumption. It is intended that 20 per cent of the annual energy needs of the new school will be produced on site through the use of sustainable energy sources, including ground source heating and photovoltaic cells. Kier is, at the present time, completing the land-
scaping around the building. This is an important part of the learning environment and this has been designed to be both stimulating and acces- sible, providing a range of outdoor opportunities within an attractive setting. The school has been designed to be welcom-
Tasked with delivering a brand new design for
this visionary primary school, the architects Sprunt, chose Kebony’s substitute for tropical hardwood and preservative treated timber as an integral element of this inspiring project. The Scots Pine cladding, used in the develop-
ment, acts as a robust and effective rain screen on a large proportion of the buildings, including the main hall and pool hall. This beautiful rustic material envelopes the school, complementing its leafy surroundings and evolves over time to acquire a subtle silver-grey patina. The soft
ing to the community as a whole, allowing its key features, such as halls, pool and external pitches, to be accessible by the community out-of-hours, while remaining secure. Flexible spaces such as interview, meeting and parents’ rooms are also available to the community without entering through the main school.
The new school has been designed to be very
environmentally sustainable, using natural venti- lation, external glazing and light wells to reduce
Value of the project – £12 million Architects – Sprunt Architects Construction – Kier External cladding – Kebony Structural engineers – MLM
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