UK structure studio Maccreanor Lavington has added a dining hall with a diamond-shaped glued laminated timber construction to the Ibstock Place School in Roehampton, west London.
Set alongside the jap boundary of the unbiased faculty’s web site, the refectory block is shaped of a trio of pitched-roof volumes every topped with a glazed lantern.
The timber constructing was clad in smooth inventory brick and plain clay tiles to praise the varsity’s unique early Twentieth-century foremost schoolhouse, which it stands alongside.
Above: Maccreanor Lavington has added a dining hall to Ibstock Place School in Roehampton. Top: the constructing’s foremost hall
“Our intention was to create a constructing with a timeless high quality,” mentioned mission architect at Maccreanor Lavington Thomas Ormerod.
“The refectory is the center of communal life on the faculty and we wished to replicate the varsity’s robust household ethos within the constructing,” he instructed Dezeen.
The constructing has a diamond-shaped glued laminated timber roof
While the constructing’s exterior is in step with the encompassing buildings and in addition features as a peaceful backdrop for the orchard, contained in the refectory has a sequence 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 Main House, which it has a subservient relationship with and by sinking the constructing into the sloping panorama, it supplies a proper edge to the historic orchard.”
The central block incorporates the servery
The constructing’s central quantity incorporates the refectory’s serving space topped with a dining space for the sixth type pupils.
On both aspect of this are the block’s kitchen, topped with a sixth type research space, and the refectory’s foremost dining space.
The severy is topped with a dining space for sixth type pupils
Each 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 soak up sound within the dining areas.
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“The glulam roof timbers are working in an identical method to a conventional timber roof, nonetheless, we now have set the construction out in a diamond sample,” mentioned Ormerod.
“The advantages of utilizing glulam, aside from its magnificence, was the construction could possibly be prefabricated and completed off-site.”
Glulam construction in the principle hall
Overall Ormerod hopes that the studio has created an uplifting atmosphere for the scholars to eat in.
“As architects, it is crucial for us to create an atmosphere that’s comfy and pleasant to be in – this temporary felt like an actual alternative to do one thing uplifting,” he mentioned.
Each block is topped with a glass lantern
“This generally is a problem in a constructing that serves 1,200 meals at lunchtime to pupils aged 4 to 18 and to faculty workers,” he continued.
“There is potential to create an terrible lot of noise, regardless of this, we hope workers and pupils will discover the calm environment achieved by way of the pared-back materials pallet and intensive acoustic remedy hid within the roof and wall linings.”
UK studio Maccreanor Lavington was based by Gerard Maccreanor and Richard Lavington in 1992. The studio beforehand added a timber-framed home to a Nineteen Sixties London housing property and co-designed the Accordia housing improvement, which gained the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008,
Photography is by Jack Hobhouse.
