The brief for the Hackney City Learning Centre was to create an educational environment for secondary school students that would inspire and engage in ways that a traditional classroom is unable to.
Walls and corridors of an existing building have been stripped out to create two large, interconnected studios.
The spaces are separated by tardis like pods, a video and audio workshop whose curved forms and intimate spaces contrast with the voluminous light filled studios.
Computer platforms and tables have been designed to encourage a choice of engagement; centred computer hubs are surrounded by circular tables that can be drawn up to create a zone for group learning, or pulled away for non computer based activities.
Similarly a large central table curving sinuously through studio one contains flap down computer screens enabling it to be used in a variety of ways.
The key theme of the centre is to present computer hardware as tools, sophisticated pencils, that are available for encouraging the creative impulses of the students in an inspiring environment.
Completion 2001
Block C, Hackney Community College, Falkirk St, London N1
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