Pavilion at St Johns and St James CE Primary
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Pavilion entrance
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Permanent pavilion functioning as temporary accommodation during construction work and then as a music room, a go-to destination, a specialist teaching and learning space
Schools can’t wait to be improved or stop during construction, so building in a working school becomes a mad-hatters tea party carefully moving each other around.
Temporary accommodation takes money away from the finished school, so instead of renting mobile classrooms we chose to invest in a permanent pavilion; a grand garden shed in the middle of the playground, a music room, a go-to destination, a specialist teaching and learning space.
Placed initially between construction phase boundaries, it’s now a pentagon to play around and in, five walls with a big open corner and five roof petals pitching to an eccentric roof light. These ten sheets of cross-laminated timber work together as structure, envelope and internal wood finish, all assembled in twenty hours. Red and green shingles clad the outside in a pattern to gradually ripen the pavilion to the south west. A rosy apple for teachers and kids alike.
Data
- Begun: May 2010
- Completed: Sep 2011
- Floor area: 70m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £125,000
- Procurement: SBC/05
- Address: Grove Street, Edmonton, London, N18 2TL, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Studio Cullinan And Buck Architects Ltd (SCABAL)
- Client: London Diocesan Board for Schools
- Structural engineer: Rodrigues Associates
- Building services engineer: Michael Popper Associates
- Quantity surveyor: Sawyer & Fisher
- Planning supervisor: Sawyer & Fisher
- Main contractor: Rydon Construction Ltd
- Timber engineer: Constructional Timber
Suppliers
- Cross Laminated Timber: Finnforest