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 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 sportshall, whose roof became the playground. The underground hall does not feel as such, due to the generous light atrium and full height glazing.
The above ground section of the design is clad in corten expanded metal louvres that both protect the windows, whilst still letting in good amounts of natural light, always a key concern to the design.
