- Sign in | Subscribe
  Log in
  Sign in
  
  Help
  
  Sign in
  
  If you’ve activated your online subscription to the AJ or you already have an account for the AJ Buildings Library, sign in below.
  
  Email address:
  
  Password:
  
  Remember me
  
  Forgotten password? | Subscribe now
  
  By continuing to use the site you agree to our Privacy & Cookies policy
  
  AJ Subscribers
  
  The AJ Buildings Library is available as a subscription benefit to AJ subscribers. If you’ve activated your online subscription on TheAJ.co.uk, you can use the same credentials to sign in on AJBL.
  If you have not activated your subscription on the AJ website you will need to do so to access the AJ Buildings Library.
  
  Not an Architects' Journal subscriber?
  Choose one of these options:
  Subscribe today for immediate access to AJ Buildings Library, TheAJ.co.uk and The Architects’ Journal magazine.
  
  Find out more about all the benefits of a subscription to The Architects' Journal.
  
  For all queries regarding access to AJ online, please email our Online Help Desk at customerservices@ArchitectsJournal.co.uk

Email address:
Password:
	Remember me

The Lab, Fitzjohn’s Primary School

Curl la Tourelle Architects, London, 2012

Subscribe now to instantly view this image

Subscribe to the Architects’ Journal (AJ) for instant access to the AJ Buildings Library, an online database of nearly 2,000 exemplar buildings in photographs, plans, elevations and details.

Already a subscriber? Sign in

Curl la Tourelle Architects (website) Download Original

Practical learning space in remodelled undercroft of Grade II listed Victorian School

The headteacher’s brief was to create a space that would excite children over Science, Food and Technology within a listed Victorian school where we had completed an award winning project in 2008.

This 'tardis-like' space was created in an underused stone arched undercroft.

Economical units are teamed with bespoke stainless steel benching and shelves. Matching hob covers maximise safe working surfaces for science and technology

A sliding partition allows division into two group rooms.

Doors facilitate related external learning activities and enable the space to function as “backstage” for the school’s renowned outdoor productions.

Care was taken to make interventions reversible:

The arches were filled with hardwood doors and windows sympathetic to the original joinery.

Dimpled membranes allow ventilated dry lining without damage to the original walls and ceiling.

The floor was excavated and replaced with no alteration to foundations.

The project was self-funded by the school community and donations.