英国拉德利学院/Design Engine Architects

发布于：2023-06-28 17:13:15

Radley College / Design Engine Architects

设计方：Design Engine Architects

位置：英国

分类：教育建筑

内容：实景照片

结构工程师：Campbell Reith

设计团队：Rod Graham, Richard James, Oliver Moore, Laura Fryer, Matthew Vowels.

承包人：Feltham Construction

项目规模：2084平方米

图片：21张

摄影师：Nick Kane

这是由Design Engine Architects设计的拉德利学院，位于拉德利村东部边缘的肯宁顿和阿宾登之间，可眺望牛津郡西南边景色。该学校成立于1847年，现可容纳684名男生入学。
这个项目代表了拉德利学院发展的里程碑，解决了现状遗留已久的问题。新增了10间课室，解决过往课室紧缺的问题；扩建艺术部门，增设一个新画廊（休厄尔画廊），并额外为学生们的艺术展品提供展示区和储物区。这个画廊同时可作为知名的艺术家的作品展示；设计新的社交场所，为男孩子们提供轻松与室外集聚的场所。这种既开敞又私密的社交场所，亦可以让教学职工接待孩子们的家长或者孩子们与家长交流。咖啡厅白天以及主饭堂停止供应时会提供点心。
该项目不仅解决了学院的一些重要问题，还提升了钟塔广场的环境，挖掘了大学校园中央的公共空间的潜能。课室新建区布置在朝向网球场的二层条状建筑里。底层是砖柱构成的外廊，提供沿着球场的有覆盖的入口路线。刻意淡化教学楼的侧立面，以留出展示艺术品的空间，避免抢去网球场的风采。课室的屋顶故意倾斜，避免与网球场屋顶形成冲突。因此设计中的室内中庭空间，有助采光和通风，为二层建筑提供自然通风系统。

建筑年份：2013

译者：艾比

Radley College is situated between Kennington and Abingdon on the eastern edge of Radley Village and commands views across South-West Oxfordshire. Established in 1847 by the Rev. William Sewell, it now accommodates up to 684 boys.
This project represents a significant milestone for Radley College as it addresses a number of important operational issues that have existed for some time. In addition, the College identified a number of space needs for both teaching and social accommodation for the school. Ten new teaching classrooms were required to enable the subjects of history and politics to be taught ‘under one roof’. This addressed the shortages of dedicated classrooms, where previously multiple use classrooms were relied upon leading to significant timetabling problems.
Radley College has a prolific art department whose expansion needed to include a new gallery (The Sewell Gallery) and additional space was required to provide secure display and storage of the boys’ artwork during and after assessment. The secure gallery also enables high profile and important artists to show their work.
A new social space was required as a much-needed place for the boys to relax and meet outside of the confines of their boarding houses or ‘socials’, where space of this nature is limited. The new social space will also be a place where College staff can receive parents of the boys and where parents can meet with their children in both open and private environments. The café will offer users light refreshments during the day and at times when the main dining facility is not accessible.
As well as addressing a number of important issues for the College, the project also represented a unique opportunity to improve the environment of the Clocktower Square and realise its potential as a civic space in the heart of the College campus.
Given the importance of the Clocktower Square, the development deliberately placed the civic activities to engage with this space. The elevation of this part of the new proposal is colonnaded in brickwork and is proportioned so as to moderate the scale difference between the monumental Rackets Court and the more domestically scaled Old Fives Court building.
The new development places the classrooms as a linear building over two storeys in the same orientation as the Rackets Court. The lower storey is a brick colonnade, which offers a new covered entrance route, taking pedestrians away from the existing roadside route that swings around the front elevation of the Rackets Court.
The end elevation of the classroom building is deliberately played down to allow space for Artwork and to avoid competing with the more ornate frontage to the Rackets Court. The roofs of the classrooms are deliberately pitched so as not to conflict with the roof of the Rackets Court, and as a result they offer a sculpted space internally to the upper classrooms. They are capped with light and ventilation stacks, which will drive the passive ventilation systems to the two-storey building.