Hayes School
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The glazed colonnade runs along the south side of the teaching block
Pauline Lord and Grant Smith Download Original
Transformation of a disparate collection of existing school buildings into a vibrant and unified school campus in Bromley
Remodeling of existing secondary school, including construction of new classrooms, music and drama departments, library and learning resources centre and multipurpose hall. PCKO’s competition-winning scheme uses the new buildings to join the disparate collection of existing buildings together with new circulation routes, giving the campus a new sense of identity.
The main feature of the scheme is the internal street, a glazed circulation route which fills in the gaps between the library and the multi-purpose hall, around the main school hall. It forms a wide, glazed colonnade along the south side of one teaching block and links to the end of a second. The ‘street’ transforms leftover outside space and unifies the spine of the school's circulation.
The new buildings are constructed using simple, everyday materials and techniques: steel frame, rendered blockwork, aluminium curtain walling and profiled metal roofing.
For the two particularly visible elements of structure - the columns which support the welcoming roof overhang to the library, and the row of seemingly random columns in the school street - the architect and structural engineer devised a slender tree-like column, branching at the top into four or six struts.
Data
- Begun: Jul 1999
- Completed: Dec 2000
- Floor area: 2,800m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £2.3M
- Funding: DfEE
- Procurement: JCT 98 with Quantities
- Address: West Common Road, Bromley, BR2 7DB, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: PCKO Architects
- Client: Hayes School
- Quantity surveyor: Inman and Partners
- Structural engineer: Price and Myers
- Services engineer: Fulcrum Consulting
- Landscape architect: Eardley Landscape Associates
- Traffic consultant: Peter Brett Associates
- Main contractor: Galliford Hodgson
- Planning supervisor: Inman Safety Services
Suppliers
- Steel frame: DGT Fabrications
- Street glazed roof and screens: TWIDE Paragon
- Steel windows, screens and doors: Crittall Windows
- Marmoleum 'street' floor: Forbo Nairn
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