Northampton Academy
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1,420 pupil secondary school on the site of an existing upper school
The architects sought to create a visually permeable environment with an emphasis on clear and effective circulation. Linked pavilions follow a subtle non-orthogonal geometry around a sloping central courtyard providing a social focus for the school community.
Learning spaces are grouped around double height circulation voids in sections of the school which each accommodate the equivalent of a year group of pupils.
The aim of the project was to deliver an extended school agenda providing both curricular and extra curricular facilities for the pupils and wider community, with specialisms in sport, business and enterprise.
Data
- Begun: Mar 2004
- Completed: Dec 2005
- Floor area: 12,480m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £19.8M
- Address: Wellingborough Road, Northampton, NN3 8NH, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Project architects: Alina White, Amos Goldreich, Carol James, David Saxby, Hannah Garlick, Ian Taylor, Jennie Green Walker, Jonathan Mitchell, Peter Clegg, Ray Kearney, Richard Feilden, Toby Lewis, Trevor Brown
- Client: The United Learning Trust
- Services engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Fire engineer: FEDRA
- Landscape architect: Plinke Landscape
- Acoustics: Fleming and Barron
- Main contractor: Miller Construction
- Approved building inspector : Approved Inspectors
- Project manager: Alligan
- Quantity surveyor: CM Parker Browne
- Project manager: CM Parker Browne
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- Ironmongery: AICS
- Structural steelwork: Barretts
- Structural concrete: MPB Structures
- Landscape architect: English Landscapes
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