|
| |
CHARTERHOUSE - NEW BOARDING HALL
 |
|
Following the successful completion of the Queen's Sport
Centre, BH&M were asked to design a purpose-built Boarding Hall for the School.
While, previously, the sixth form had been in a separate series of private houses, the
School decided centralisation in a purpose-built Boarding Hall was essential to the future
of the School.
Following intensive negotiations with the Local Planning Authorities and local community,
BH&M were successful in obtaining Planning Consent for a Boarding Hall to house 60
rooms, Matron, and a Hall Warden. Designed specifically to replicate the Edwardian
houses of the area, the building is set into the landscape between two major private
houses and behind the School's existing all-weather playing surface to the north-west
corner of the campus. |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
In order to maintain the highest quality for the rooms the practice
decided to use prefabricated bathrooms, all factory built, inside a reinforced concrete
pod. These, many of which were completed even before the ground floor slab was laid, are
to be installed on a floor by floor basis, during construction. The pods arrive from
Denmark, fully complete and formally sealed, not to be opened until the building itself is
absolutely complete.
The project started on site in September 1998 and will be ready at the beginning of the
academic year 1999/2000. |
|
