Crit Building
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Multi-purpos extension to the School of Architecture at Kent University
The building, that stands between the existing architecture school and the zinc-clad Jarman School of Arts, forms the north side of the recently refurbished quadrangle.
The building sits on reinforced concrete columns above an area used by Jarman students for theatrical props and is connected to the main Architecture Building via a bridge link on the first floor of the adjoining
The long rectangular form of the Crit Space was created using steel portal-frames as ‘ribs’ to provide the open-plan internal space as well as to provide lateral stability.
The building is clad with a bespoke screen of small rectangular anodised aluminium flaps on the south elevation, each with a stainless steel hinge connection to a continuous black powder-coated aluminium egg crate. This also provides solar shading for the crit space.
Data
- Begun: Apr 2011
- Completed: Nov 2012
- Floor area: 221m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £740,000
- Procurement: JCT SBC 05 with quantities
- Address: Crit Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom
Materials 
Professional Team
- Architect: Guy Hollaway Architects
- Client: University of Kent
- M&E consultant: Peter Deer Associates
- Quantity surveyor: GPM Partnership
- Approved building inspector : MLM
- Main contractor: WW Martin
- Structural engineer: Elliott Wood Partnership
Suppliers
- Pinboard partitions: Weld of Fabrications
- aluminium mesh cladding: Ash and Lacey, Fehn
