UK structure studio Maccreanor Lavington has added a eating corridor with a diamond-shaped glued laminated timber construction to the Ibstock Place College in Roehampton, west London.
Set alongside the japanese boundary of the unbiased school‘s web site, the refectory block is fashioned of a trio of pitched-roof volumes every topped with a glazed lantern.
The timber constructing was clad in comfortable inventory brick and plain clay tiles to go with the varsity’s authentic early Twentieth-century essential schoolhouse, which it stands alongside.
“Our goal was to create a constructing with a timeless high quality,” mentioned mission architect at Maccreanor Lavington Thomas Ormerod.
“The refectory is the guts of communal life on the faculty and we wished to replicate the varsity’s sturdy household ethos within the constructing,” he informed Dezeen.
Whereas the constructing’s exterior is in line with the encompassing buildings and in addition features as a relaxed backdrop for the orchard, contained in the refectory has a collection of grand areas topped with a timber roof.
“One may say the constructing has a way of grandeur internally – we wished it to be a celebratory area and this knowledgeable the lofty quantity of the halls,” defined Ormerod.
“In distinction, externally the constructing is intentionally quieter and low. It sympathetically attracts upon its context of the adjoining Edwardian Essential Home, which it has a subservient relationship with and by sinking the constructing into the sloping panorama, it offers a proper edge to the historic orchard.”
The constructing’s central quantity accommodates the refectory’s serving space topped with a eating space for the sixth kind pupils.
On both aspect of this are the block’s kitchen, topped with a sixth kind examine space, and the refectory’s essential eating space.
Every of the block’s roofs was constructed from glued laminated timber (glulam) that’s seen internally and organized in a diamond sample. Oak panelling was set between the glulam and used on the partitions to assist take up sound within the eating areas.Related storyBell Phillips designs brick extension to complement Victorian Gothic school buildings
“The glulam roof timbers are working in an identical method to a conventional timber roof, nevertheless, we’ve set the construction out in a diamond sample,” mentioned Ormerod.
“The advantages of utilizing glulam, aside from its magnificence, was the construction may very well be prefabricated and completed off-site.”
General Ormerod hopes that the studio has created an uplifting setting for the scholars to eat in.
“As architects, it is crucial for us to create an setting that’s comfy and pleasurable to be in – this temporary felt like an actual alternative to do one thing uplifting,” he mentioned.
“This could be a problem in a constructing that serves 1,200 meals at lunchtime to pupils aged 4 to 18 and to highschool employees,” he continued.
“There’s potential to create an terrible lot of noise, regardless of this, we hope employees and pupils will discover the calm environment achieved by the pared-back materials pallet and in depth acoustic remedy hid within the roof and wall linings.”
Maccreanor Lavington was based by Gerard Maccreanor and Richard Lavington in 1992 and has workplaces in London and Rotterdam. The studio beforehand added a timber-framed house to a 1960s London housing estate and co-designed the Accordia housing development, which gained the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008,
Images is by Jack Hobhouse.