British Badminton School Governors has given a project to Mitchell Taylor Workshop to build a boarding housewith solar-shading devices for Badminton School which have been completed recently. The Sanderson House which costs £2.8 million, contains 94 three and four bedroom dormitories, four staff apartments, and two ‘gap-year’ en-suite rooms.
The austerity of the facade is alleviated by shadows, cast by the eyelash-like solar shading devices and the dancing overlap-line of the Siberian larch cladding. The latter disguises the junction of first and second floors, seemingly adding a depth greater than its 25mm thickness.
Inside, the plan consists of double-loaded corridors on the first and second-floors, serving bedrooms and staff apartments. The space created between the two ‘wings’ functions as circulation and social space. Social rooms benefit from spectacular views across Bristol through full-height windows.
To create a sustainable building, the architect proposed the energywise lightweight box which are then left unapproved. Instead, they developed the realities of natural ventilation and lighting – a combined-heat-and-power unit that is capable of powering most of the school, and unrestricted internal spaces created by absorbing the steel frame into super-insulated walls.
Via. Photography by Edmund Sumner
