Extension To Secondary School
EXTENSION TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
Paul Dillon Architects
ARCHITECTS
Paul Dillon Architects
LOCATION
Rosmuc, Co. Galway, Ireland
CATEGORY
High School
MANUFACTURERS
Tegral
AREA
150.0 m2
YEAR
2016
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ros Kavanagh
Text description provided by architect.
This project provides three new classrooms and three new shelters for a small rural secondary school on the west coast of Ireland. Externally, the shelters are intended as social areas to wait before and after school, or eat lunch.
Internally, a folding wall allows the joining of two classrooms to provide the school with its only assembly room, which also serves as a meeting place for the local community.
The extension is presented as a separate building set back from the line of the original school. The new building forms a sheltered courtyard at the heart of the school.
The project won Best Education Building at the 2017 RIAI (The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) Awards. A spokesperson for the RIAI said, “The Jury welcomed the return of a strong Boyd Barrett type national school typology, applauding the project for apparent simplicity, skilfully designed with limited means.
The scale is consistent and modest demonstrating skill with a restricted school budget. The Architectural language was admired for its appropriateness to child and adult alike.
Space-making within the school site was an intrinsic part of the designs and contributes successfully to the scheme as a whole and its relationship with its context”.
