King’s High school

The new King’s High School forms part of the Warwick Independent Schools Foundation’s Project One Campus development.

The design for the new building is based on an Oxbridge Quad typology that gathers the teaching departments around a central courtyard together with larger communal spaces including the assembly hall, library, kitchen, and dining room.

The overall development uses a consistent pallet of materials that brings a sense of calm to the campus. The building envelopes are built from locally sourced red brick, exposed reconstituted stone lintels, broken composite timber and aluminium windows, and Siberian larch cladding to the external soffits. Internally, the larch cladding is used in the main spaces in conjunction with absorbent insulation to dampen the spatial acoustics.

The pitched roofs provide a varied silhouette that helps reduce the overall mass of the new building. The roofs are finished in an architectural grade, standing seam zinc that was specified for its long life span and the ability to recycle it indefinitely at the end of its service life.

Philip was project leader for the King’s High School while he worked at Nicholas Hare Architects. Images courtesy of Nicholas Hare Architects (c) Alan Williams Photography.