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The new building has been formed by extending the existing library and adding a new block linked back to the main building. The accommodation now forms a dual use library for the public and the local Secondary School, and four classrooms for adult learning. The adult learning spaces are designed to be as flexible as possible.
The Sports Hall has been designed to accommodate one netball court and four badminton courts, all to County standard. Indoor sports such as volleyball, short tennis, basketball, gymnastics plus cricket and athletics coaching are also catered for. The site lies within The Metropolitan Green Belt and has been designed to reduce its visual impact on the school and the surrounding landscape by sinking the building into the ground and thereby enabling the roof height to be the same as nearby classrooms.
The new music rooms include six practice rooms of varying sizes for different types of one-to-one and small group instrumental teaching. These are contained within the acoustically insulted masonry ground floor. On the cantilevered first floor, the teaching suite exploits the height of the building's pyramid roof to give acoustic volume to the large classroom. The room can also be used for small concerts.
New teaching block for Buckinghamshire College comprising lecture theatres, seminar rooms and staff offices. Compact and sloping nature of site and need to maximise floor area resulted in five-storey building (4-storeys visible at main road frontage) with top floor set below curved metal roof to minimise overall building height.
New stand-alone arts faculty building comprising two large music studios (plus practice rooms), two drama studios and ceramic studio (plus kiln room). Teaching spaces accessed via double-height central circulation area, with natural day lighting provided via ridge-glazing.