20
1!&$))&!#(#)&&%*(!+*)*& !,!%* '(%*
(+*!&%2
© Timothy Soar
– less waste, but with contractor input in terms of costings and buildability. As it turned out, the successful bidder was Wates, with whom Architecture PLB has maintained a good relationship and with whom it is involved with other bids on other schemes. So, back to the building. The academy was adamant that a sin-
gle point of entry should convey an egalitarian attitude – that students have the same standing as staff. The only slight issue here is that it is not entirely clear how members of the public wanting to use out-of-hours facilities pass through. One of these, the two-storey, four-court indoor sports hall, is to the left as one enters and serves as a buffer from the two-storey suburban resi- dential road from the rest of the three-storey academy facilities behind, which house the main teaching spaces. The separately-funded youth facility – pool tables and other
distractions – sits beyond. The other main community-accessi- ble space – a multi-purpose assembly hall for drama etc, is to the right of the entrance on the first floor in order that it can be sim- ilarly zoned off from the rest. Specialist teaching sits on the ground floor – science, design technology, art and so on, with
general teaching above. Curriculum courtyards – one for design technology, one for sci-
ence, help with yet another variety of teaching space, while other features include an allotment to help with the food education principles, a pond and a large Astroturf all weather football pitch. The sustainability story is a strong one, not least informed by
the decision to orientate the site along a broad north-south axis (albeit slightly rotated from true north, because of the building’s proximity to neighbours). Armed with fabric brise-soleils and blinds to the south, this is
the optimum arrangement for managing solar gain, while the majority of the rest of the building is naturally ventilated, except for the gym. The massing and construction of the building has been designed to stabilise internal temperatures and reduce annual energy consumption, utilising exposed concrete soffits to act as a heat sink. A biomass boiler also contributes to achieving the 60 per cent reduction from the 2002 Building Regulations – something that garnered an extra grant from the DCSF. And a SUDS
CO2 continued on page 22
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60