Mounts Bay Secondary School

New 6th form resource & performance centre

Unusually we worked with the pupils as our clients under the 'joined-up-design for schools' initiative.

The client and architect worked together to develop a brief for a new building, with sustainability issues high on the design agenda. The ideas were refined resulting in a project to design a multi-function building for the school, incorporating a double height performance space surrounded by ancillary flexible-use spaces on two levels;

The building was constructed using large sections of 'Glulam' structural timber as beams, columns, walls and balustrades- forming the basic structural frame. The enclosing walls and floors were made using newspaper insulated 'Masonite' walls, with a wonderfully patterned 'Trespa' rain screen externally

Double height doors extend the performance space to include the large external canopy.