Location:Hull
Client:Esteem, Sewell & Hull City Council
Architect:AHMM
Value:£4.4m
A new Secondary School extension building constructed to the rear of the award-winning Kingswood Academy.
This three-storey secondary school building provides two storeys of teaching space, staff offices, a ground floor glazed cafeteria, offering an additional 150 spaces for students.
The new building was developed to expand upon the oversubscribed and well performing Kingswood Secondary Academy, bringing the total pupil count up to 1300 students.
The extension was delivered by Esteem as part of the Hull City Council’s Pupil Place Planning Project.
The new extension building provides teachers and students with modern teaching and breakout / dining spaces, accessible to building users of all abilities.
Alan Wood and Partners (AWP) provided support to the client to ensure that they were able to deliver a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ facility.
Working alongside AHMM Architects, Esteem and the wider design tea, AWP helped ensure that the new extension satisfied the DfE Standards and achieved Regulatory Compliance. Through regular design team meetings and reviews, the team ensured that the space planning, daylighting, acoustics, ventilation, safeguarding, along with the compliance with building regulations, fire safety and health & safety requirements of the school and development were all met.
Key structural engineering solutions were required to provide the extent of open space at the ground floor level, which were designed to accommodate a large, open plan glazed cafeteria area. This resulted in a lateral stability challenge that was overcome by employing a diaphragm system to transfer forces back to stability cores located near areas of vertical integration at one end of the building and providing stiff frames to the other.
The temporary stability of the structure was also considered as part of the scheme, with temporary systems being designed and detailed by the AWP Structures Team to ensure that the structure remained safe and stable throughout the process of the build.
AWP, Esteem and the wider design team worked with building users to ensure that the extension delivered on the requirements outlined by the brief, and generally providing a ‘sympathetic’ extension that mirrored the quality and modern functionality of the adjacent main building.
Drawings & Plans: Floor layouts, elevations, and 3D visuals.
The extension delivers on its main objective in providing additional, much needed places to local students, whilst offering 12 classrooms, 2 offices and a large, glazed open plan dining space at ground floor.
This is a direct response to the school having achieved World Class School status and being one of the highest performing academies in the country.
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