Camouflage
Alterations to Edwardian building at Brecknock Primary School, Camden, London
These makeshift wishlists are drawn from everywhere, customised and added to a valuable picture of experience.
Built in the London Borough of Camden in 1926, the three storeys are topped with a playground roof and sit in a hard-walled yard. In order to fulfil its capacity and extend itself to a wider constituency, the school has sourced substantial funding to provide a growing list of facilities.
Cut flower gardens in the yard, a new main entrance beneath a porte-cochère, pink playshelters, a reorganised reception, lifts to all areas, a camouflage rooftop sunscreen, a new mediatech, bespoke printed indoor murals, a prefabricated staffroom on the roof.
These makeshift wishlists are drawn from everywhere, customised and added to a valuable picture of experience.
The tented sunscreen shades one third of the 750m2 rooftop playground. 11.5m x 11.5m Jumbo Desert Camouflage Nets, tied onto wires strung between galvanised steel posts anchored to the parapet walls.
Service: Architects
Location: Camden, London
Client: Brecknock Primary School
Cost: £3k
Areas: xxm²
Dates: 2008
Contract: TBC
Publications
Schools for the Future: Inspirational Design for PE & Sport Spaces, Department for Education and Skills, 2005
To Live In To Learn In To Work In To Play In