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South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy
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Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
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South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
This 1200 place new-build academy in an economically deprived area to
the south of Wolverhampton reflects the extremely ambitious and innovative
curriculum with an imaginative and bold design approach.
The academy, which is co-sponsored by WolverhamptonUniversity, WolverhamptonCollege
and Wovlerhampton City Council, has an engineering specialism. The learning
approach places a great emphasis on skills and the brief required the
development of four learning zones: Newton’s
Apple, Global Gateway, The Boardroom, and The Lifepod, with a mix of cellular
and specialist accommodation wrapping around large open-planned skill zone
areas.
The design provides a floor level to each of the four learning zones; on
each level class-bases wrap around a more open central area, with a series of
voids opening up double height and triple height top-lit spaces interspersed
with centralised accommodation: lecture theatre, hall and café spaces. The main
entrance is at first floor level, working with the slope of the site, providing
views from the entrance foyer down into the dramatic double height engineering
hall. Platforms at different levels provide exciting views between differing
floor levels, whilst wide internal staircases linking between floors provide
both additional informal lecture areas and intuitive wayfinding.
Each skill zone is being developed to have a distinctive flavour, so
that students will enjoy a wide range of learning experiences and environments.
In the Global Gateway for instance, they will be able to use a ‘Skype-Pod’
cinema space for immersive experiences of differing environments across the
world.
The concept of interlinked accessible platforms has been extended
externally to provide an excellent range of external sports, learning and
recreation spaces for the students.
An ambitious public art programme was included within the project
proposals, to engage both students and renowned artists in a series of
interventions to celebrate the historical significance of the industrial
heritage of the site and local area.
For further information on this project contact Richard
Woods here
the south of Wolverhampton reflects the extremely ambitious and innovative
curriculum with an imaginative and bold design approach.
The academy, which is co-sponsored by WolverhamptonUniversity, WolverhamptonCollege
and Wovlerhampton City Council, has an engineering specialism. The learning
approach places a great emphasis on skills and the brief required the
development of four learning zones: Newton’s
Apple, Global Gateway, The Boardroom, and The Lifepod, with a mix of cellular
and specialist accommodation wrapping around large open-planned skill zone
areas.
The design provides a floor level to each of the four learning zones; on
each level class-bases wrap around a more open central area, with a series of
voids opening up double height and triple height top-lit spaces interspersed
with centralised accommodation: lecture theatre, hall and café spaces. The main
entrance is at first floor level, working with the slope of the site, providing
views from the entrance foyer down into the dramatic double height engineering
hall. Platforms at different levels provide exciting views between differing
floor levels, whilst wide internal staircases linking between floors provide
both additional informal lecture areas and intuitive wayfinding.
Each skill zone is being developed to have a distinctive flavour, so
that students will enjoy a wide range of learning experiences and environments.
In the Global Gateway for instance, they will be able to use a ‘Skype-Pod’
cinema space for immersive experiences of differing environments across the
world.
The concept of interlinked accessible platforms has been extended
externally to provide an excellent range of external sports, learning and
recreation spaces for the students.
An ambitious public art programme was included within the project
proposals, to engage both students and renowned artists in a series of
interventions to celebrate the historical significance of the industrial
heritage of the site and local area.
For further information on this project contact Richard
Woods here
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