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 750mrooftop 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: xx

Dates: 2008

Contract: TBC

Publications

Schools for the Future: Inspirational Design for PE & Sport Spaces, Department for Education and Skills, 2005

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