Interior circulation spaces. South Wolverhampton & Bilston Academy, Bilston, United Kingdom. Architect: Capita Symonds Architect
South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy is a 1200 place, new-build academy with an imaginative and bold design approach reflecting the clients ambitious and innovative curriculum, located in an economically deprived area to the south of Wolverhampton. The academy has specialisms in civil engineering and social care and medical science. The design provides a floor level to each of the four learning zones; on each level class-bases wrap around a more open central area, with a series of voids opening up double and triple height top-lit spaces interspersed with centralised accommodation: lecture theatre, hall and café spaces. The main entrance is at first floor level, working with the slope of the site, providing views from the entrance foyer down into the dramatic double height engineering hall. Externally the building has been clad in vertical battens of siberian larch to sit harmoniously with the adjacent woods in what is otherwise a gritty urban area.
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