D5 Architects LLP - Projects
12/09/2008Stratford-upon-Avon Campus
Value: £5m (2006)
Area:
Contract: JCT Design & Build
Role: Lead Designer, Architect RIBA Work Stage A > L
Client: Stratford-upon-Avon College
Sector: Education
D5 were initially appointed to complete a campus redevelopment & rationalising masterplan with new build and refurbished accommodation. D5 were then instructed to develop detailed proposals for a new campus entrance, recreation and academic facilities.
The college have an impressive record for catering and hospitality and performing arts education. The project focuses on the expansion of the latter to re-organise internal linkages between existing theatre and performance spaces and to create a new performance hall. Within this the project addressed the whole arrival and movement into the college for visitors and audiences to create an identifiable entrance and foyer, something the existing college lacked.
During design development the brief was expanded to include a new build block in the centre of the campus to accommodate standard teaching rooms and specialist music rehearsal rooms.