KAWNEER HELPS WITH THE THREE “R”S AT FOSTER’S FOLKESTONE ACADEMY
 Virtually
the whole range of products from architectural aluminium
systems supplier Kawneer have been used for their
“aesthetics, buildability and cost” on Foster and
Partners’ new Folkestone Academy.
The Kawneer systems include AA®110 and PF (picture
frame) curtain walling, an unusual saw tooth rainscreen
system, the 451PT framing system, and 190 series of
doors, all designed and installed by approved
sub-contractor SIAC Construction (UK) for main
contractor Wates.
The academy plays an important role in the regeneration
of Folkestone by offering a range of learning and
community services to people of all ages while
specialising in the Creative Arts and European Languages
and Culture.
State-of-the-art facilities include nine science labs,
eight specialist rooms for art textiles and graphics, 10
music rooms, dance, drama, film and recording studios,
and a sports hall with viewing gallery and retractable
seating for 800 students.
The educational vision for the school for almost 1,500
pupils between 11 and 18 years of age is based on the
pastoral or house system popular in public education
that offers personal support and encouragement within
smaller mixed-age groups.
The design concept therefore provided eight house spaces
each contained within a 14m-diameter circular enclosure.
Two groups of four houses are arranged between linear
teaching areas interspersed by two triple-height
communal courtyards, with a café and an ICT (Information
Communications Technology) study area to the rear.
Students enter from one of two openings to the internal
courtyards that lead directly into the houses. The
courtyards can be used as informal gathering areas.
Within the houses, there are intimate spaces for
registration, pastoral support groups, dining, coat
cupboards and breakout zones, overlooked by raised staff
areas and seminar spaces, with teaching rooms on the
upper level.
To minimise unwanted heat gain and solar glare, much of
the 12,000m² concrete and steel framed building,
including the perimeter classrooms, is naturally
ventilated.
Kawneer’s AA®110 curtain wall has been used for the
entrance zones due to the large panes of glass required
and the mullions to these zones have been tied back to
the intermediate structure with trusses specially
engineered to Fosters’ design.
Kawneer’s rainscreen system - a special extruded system
designed around Kawneer’s Shadoform plank system but in
a saw tooth profile – features on the flank walls either
side of the entrances.
The 451PT framing system features internally on the
atrium space where three-storey high screens and doors
link the circular houses. The beaded PF curtain wall
features externally on the main elevations with the
manual and automatic 190 doors used on the main and side
entrances.
Fosters required some special treatment for this project
and Kawneer’s architectural advisor and technical team
were involved in talks with the practice for almost four
years.
From the outset, Fosters wanted to pursue the PF route
as this had been used successfully on buildings such as
the Imperial College and award-winning Kingswood in
Ascot.
The elevational design was based upon a 3.6m mullion
grid and the architects were very keen to maintain the
wide pane centres to keep the horizontal emphasis on the
long elevations. To cope with the large spans a new
mullion profile had to be designed and produced.
An important feature of the curtain wall design was to
maintain a consistent pattern of opening windows at
ceiling level, operated by automatic actuators linked to
the building management system for night cooling of the
classrooms. At cill level there are further opening
windows that are manually opened by a single
multi-locking handle. The introduction of so many
opening windows was possibly the main reason why the PF
system was chosen as fixed and opening lights with this
system have an identical appearance.
A spokesperson for Fosters concurred. “The school is
naturally ventilated so plenty of openable vents were
required. The main advantage of Kawneer’s PF system is
that the fixed glazing and openable vents have the same
appearance so no additional framework was required.
“The Kawneer systems were specified for their
aesthetics, buildability and cost. Curtain wall is
efficient to build compared to ribbon windows and there
are fewer interfaces with other trades. The Kawneer
glazed elements are highly visible as horizontal bands
along the facades and entrance screens.”
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