The document discusses converting an existing office building into a school building to overcome limitations of time, space, and money. It describes the history and context of Bristol Cathedral Choir School needing to reduce class sizes and convert a building. It then details considerations for converting the 4-story office building, including meeting building regulations for fire safety, sound, sanitation, heating, and accessibility, as well as designing for passive supervision, flexible classroom space, and a sustainable environment. Lessons learned from the project could help other teams with similar conversions.
4. History 800 years old Little spent to upgrade existing buildings School – reducing numbers Academy status Opportunity to convert office block into a school building
32. Shared Learning Strategic Brief Do your homework Understand the basics – design loadings Structural and Environmental Existing Vertical circulation – restrictions to capacity Daylight Acoustics etc
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Jeremy Considering how appropriate it is to utilise unused office buildings to host education as a result of growing student population, lack of funds and time to build new • Aims and unique difficulties of the project where an office building was converted into a four storey education use, hosting languages, mathematics and ICT services for the whole school and a learning resource centre • How the partnership worked together to achieve everything within three months over school holidays, and within given budgets • Lessons which can be shared with other project teams
Jeremy Location, split campus, attached to Cathedral Listed Buildings, Curtilage listing Plenty of history