Michael Faraday Community School
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Nursery, primary school, adult education and community facilities arranged over two levels on one site
The Michael Faraday Community school is a flagship project for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate, the largest social housing complex in Europe.
The main building classrooms are arranged around a large open-plan learning environment at the heart of the school. A continuous external balcony provides external teaching spaces to the upper classrooms and also provides cover to the outdoor learning spaces at ground level.
The school grounds are extensively landscaped providing hard and soft play areas together with growing gardens, natural habitat and a 'Dry River Bed'. An all weather sports pitch will be shared with the local community and bore holes beneath the pitch will form the Ground Source Heat Pump that contributes to the building achieving a BREEAM very good rating.
Data
- Begun: Aug 2009
- Completed: Sep 2010
- Floor area: 1,300m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £8.1M
- Procurement: GC WORKS/1 1998
- Address: Michael Faraday Community School, Portland Street, London, SE17 2HR, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Alsop Sparch, Archial
- Project architects: Jonathan Leah, Will Alsop
- Client: Southwark Leisure
- Structural engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- M&E consultant: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- CDM coordinator: Turner & Townsend Project Management
- Quantity surveyor: EC Harris LLP
- Graphic and signage consultant: Cartlidge Levene
- Main contractor: Galliford Try Construction
- Project manager: Southwark Leisure
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