英国拉提默中学运动中心/FaulknerBrowns Architects

发布于：2023-06-12 13:52:33

英文名称：England LaTymo Secondary School Sports Center

工程内容：实景照片

位置：英国

设计公司：FaulknerBrowns Architects

摄影师：Guy Archard

这是由FaulknerBrowns Architects设计的拉提默中学运动中心。这座优雅而高效的运动中心最大化了有限场地的可用空间，创建了一个卓越的运动场所。拉提默中学是伦敦哈默史密斯区的一所独立学校，学生人数为1200人。现状的体育设施建于1980年，在运动培育方面发挥了重要的作用。直到2014年，该建筑不再能满足其功能的发展。该学校旨在通过提供一流的游泳池和运动中心，继续弘扬优越运动能力培育的作用，培育下一代的世界级运动员，同时促进所有学生身心健康的发展。

译者：筑龙网艾比

From the architect. The elegant and efficient sports centre at Latymer Upper School maximises the available space on a tightly constrained site, to create a centre for sporting excellence and ambition.Latymer Upper School is an independent school for 1,200 pupils in Hammersmith, west London. The existing sports facilities were completed in 1980 and served the school well, helping to establish its reputation for sporting excellence. Fast forward to 2014, and the building was no longer fit for purpose.

The school’s ambition to maintain this strong sporting pedigree led to the decision to redevelop its existing offer with a state of the art swimming pool and sports centre. It was hoped that this would not only cultivate the next generation of world-class athletes, but also develop a wider appreciation of fitness and wellbeing within the whole student body.The physical constraints included; a pedestrian underpass beneath the A4, a busy arterial route which arrives on the site in the centre of the northern boundary; and the existing sports hall, which had to remain in its present position. These constraints largely dictated the location of the new building, which would need to fill the available site to accommodate the school’s requirements.

From a planning perspective, whilst this was replacing an existing facility, the site was located within the vicinity of two listed buildings in a conservation area.The design solution linked the two simple geometric volumes of the sports hall and pool block with a spine of accommodation that encompasses the main horizontal and vertical circulation routes. By stacking the studio spaces on top of the pool hall, this block supports a wide range of activities in a very small footprint. The creation of a large basement allowed for much of the building’s plant to be removed from the main body of the plan. This has the benefit of increasing the available space for the core functions and reducing the overall height of the structure, thereby producing a very elegant and efficient building

Externally, the expression of the building is very simple and restrained, with a palette of fibre-cement and glass. The primary volumes of the sports hall and swimming pool are clad in grey fibre–cement panels, modulated with different shades and sizes. The studio space is expressed as a cast-glass box ‘floating’ above the perimeter wall. Utilising a mixture of clear and translucent panels, the movement within the studios will present a constantly changing appearance: a living canvas which will, through shadow and silhouette, animate the elevation by day and night

Product Description. The architectural concept was a glass box - containing activity studios and fitness - over a concrete box containing a pool. The glazing to the upper box needed to be translucent with limited transparency to provide privacy, and insulation to provide thermal efficiency. Self-supporting, frameless Profilit panels were used - sandblasted and clear – which fulfilled these objectives.