We drew the concept design from the previous sketchy step to scale, which had a very 'interesting' outcome as you can see.

We soon realized that we simply don't have enough program to fill the entire site but also that the large number of classrooms needs more then only three buildings. However on the whole we are pretty satisfied with this first concept and decide to proceed from here. The overall layout locks the site well into the surrounding, the sequence of buildings works well and the addition of program fits well. We might actually try to find a bit more program to fill the site.
Another thing we need to do is work on a more site-specific classroom.

The classroom is the thing we focused on today. We want to make a building with a secured area for possible computers and other items with a high risk of theft, other requirements are the possibility to join a number of classrooms in one building while at the same making the best use of the amount of space we have. We have to consider the fact that the site is sloping, without knowing how much that slope is. And finally we aimed to make a model building to serve as an example for all following buildings.

The classroom is 6 x 8 m. By interlocking two classrooms there is space to create a shared secured area. We try a range of configurations and finally came up with the following design.




And with this new building design we sketched the revised layout.



We will meet the trustees of Ahead next week and present them our work so far. It will be interesting to see if we met their expectations.