The Design
The layout and planning of the external spaces has been arranged to suit all building users with extended opportunities for use by the wider community encouraged by providing sports facilities at the front of the school for use out of hours. In addition the arts and music facilities have also been given equal prominence at the front of the building; this area includes external spaces such as an amphitheatre for external performances as well as a sculpture terrace.
The fabric of the building is constructed as two distinct elements, the teaching accommodation which is arranged over three floors on two wings is constructed using a reinforced insitu concrete frame, clad with a combination of traditional external facing brickwork and coloured rendered panels, broken up with continuous runs of aluminium ribbon windows and curtain walling. The roof comprises an aluminium standing seam roof fixed on to the concrete frame below.
