St Marylebone School
When working at Gumuchdjian Architects I was part of the team designing the now RIBA award winning extension to St Marylebone school in London.
The brief for the project was to design a new music, drama, art and sport centre for the secondary school. The school however had no additional land for such a development. The design strategy was to go down. Building an underground sport shall and gym, whose roof became the playground. The underground hall does not feel underground, due to the generous light atrium and full height glazing to one side. The above ground part of the building was used for the art and music departments. Expanded Metal Corten panels formed the elevation to allow light into the plan, whilst protecting the windows from the playground below.
I was brought onto the team to develop the design and to help produce the tender and construction drawings and specification.
