Superclass

“They have met the client’s brief in ways which have produced and enhanced health and wellbeing in the learning environment for staff students and community”

Best Healthy Learning Environment Award Winner,
British Council for School Environments 2010

The Superclass is an intermediary Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project for Acland Burghley Secondary School in Camden, a refurbishment project of an underused Assembly Hall transformed into an innovatory and experimental teaching/learning laboratory.

The project provides a 490sqm space where different learning methods can be developed and observed in order to inform the school’s requirements for their brief for Phase 2 of Camden’s BSF Programme. The Superclass acts as a large classroom where up to 90 pupils can follow a project-based curriculum and work in groups of differing sizes as well as coming together for plenary sessions.

Old and disposed in-house furniture was taken apart and converted into new flexible and playful tables and benches, and the lighting scheme of vertical and horizontal strip lights in a starburst configuration all have provided a new life cycle to what would otherwise be obsolete.

Flexibility, brightness, diversity, experimentation and playfulness are a few of the qualities that have been embodied in the design of the Superclass.