Applied Learning Centre
Location: Bath
Budget: £1.75m
Type: Education building
Status: On site, completion due August 2013
This is the first major element of the broader masterplan and will form a new cornerstone to the campus. The two story Applied Learning Centre focuses on science – the foundation school’s specialist subject – comprising four classrooms, arranged in adjoining pairs around a double height “hub” breakout space for independent learning. It is designed as a porous ‘building in the round, with teaching spaces leading out onto the learning landscape. The series of open, flexible spaces are designed around more of a university style of independent learning than the traditional school model.
Constructed in cross-laminated timber, the building is partly embedded in the landscape, accessed by ramps leading up to the first floor gallery level. A hung larch façade marches across the elevations with a strong vertical rhythm, giving way to dark-stained precast concrete panels at the lower level, which are also used elsewhere to express deep cuts in the building envelope.
The project employs a simple, earthy palette of materials, including polished limecrete floors, using limestone excavated from the site, as well as rammed earth in places.
Budget: £1.75m
Type: Education building
Status: On site, completion due August 2013
This is the first major element of the broader masterplan and will form a new cornerstone to the campus. The two story Applied Learning Centre focuses on science – the foundation school’s specialist subject – comprising four classrooms, arranged in adjoining pairs around a double height “hub” breakout space for independent learning. It is designed as a porous ‘building in the round, with teaching spaces leading out onto the learning landscape. The series of open, flexible spaces are designed around more of a university style of independent learning than the traditional school model.
Constructed in cross-laminated timber, the building is partly embedded in the landscape, accessed by ramps leading up to the first floor gallery level. A hung larch façade marches across the elevations with a strong vertical rhythm, giving way to dark-stained precast concrete panels at the lower level, which are also used elsewhere to express deep cuts in the building envelope.
The project employs a simple, earthy palette of materials, including polished limecrete floors, using limestone excavated from the site, as well as rammed earth in places.
Links
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Ralph Allen School Applied Learning Centre
