美国诺坦普顿国际学院
International Academy / Architecture Initiative

由专筑网小R，王雪纯编译

来自建筑事务所的描述：伦敦的Architecture Initiative事务所近期完成了一个项目，建筑师将一座几乎无开窗的实用型工业建筑，改造为光线、视野充足，十分具有教育意义的教学楼。原建筑建造于上世纪70年代，有长达11年的时间被闲置，而现在这座建筑成为了当地的一大亮点，吸引了许多人群。建筑师将混凝土结构裸露表达，并且充分利用了开放空间和天花板。诺坦普顿国际学院能够容纳420名小学生、1500名中学生，以及300名第六学级的学生。整座建筑的主要结构仍然保持原貌。

Text description provided by the architects. London-based architecture practice Architecture Initiative has completed a project to turn the largely windowless, utilitarian, industrial building into an education hub filled with natural light and expansive views; designed to motivate and inspire. The 1970s building stood derelict for eleven years and had become a local eyesore, attracting antisocial behavior. Architecture Initiative identified the opportunity to ambitiously reimagine the vast brutalist structure as a school while celebrating the best of its exposed concrete structure and features such as its massive open spaces and waffle slab ceilings. Northampton International Academy accommodates 420 primary pupils 1500 secondary pupils and a 300-place sixth form. The main mass of the building structure remains largely unchanged.







穿孔抛光金属面板包裹着建筑的外部砖石，让立面如同焕发新生，其中装饰有两个标志性体量，分别是小学和中学的入口部分，独立区分不同的流线独立，共同汇聚到全新的公共广场，而这一部分则于建筑的主要功能区域相分离。建筑周围有着钢框架，中央是6米高的空间，教学用房就环绕着这个空间而排布，通过大型开窗让采光最大化。扩大的走廊呼应了建筑的不同尺度，走廊是学生们主要的休闲社交区。

A screen of perforated, polished metal wraps around the building’s brick exterior, refreshing the façade, which is finished with two illuminated signage boxes that indicate the entrances to the primary and secondary schools giving each age group a dedicated entrance, directly off the new public plaza, which can be separated from the building’s alternative functions. Arranged around the building’s perimeter, enabled by steel-framed mezzanine levels inserted in the 6-m-high spaces, the teaching rooms are allowed maximum access to natural light through new window openings which have been punctured through the existing external walls. Extensive circulation corridors, enabled by the sheer size and depth of the building, are used as break-out learning spaces and social areas.







这样的布局让建筑师们能够通过现有的楼板结构来插入使用垂直空腔，并且增加了屋顶灯具，让室内中央也能具有亮光，同时在各楼层不同年级教学空间之间构成视觉上的开放式循环连接。在顶层有一间运动大厅，其中包含有4个运动场，沿着穿孔胶合面板线性排布，成为与原有外部庭院相结合的全新钢结构体量。建筑有着半透明的聚碳酸酯面板，能够让自然光能够进入室内，这是一种全新的高校运动场设计。原有建筑的现有完成面也得以保留与修复，在新旧空间之中仍然保持着一定的区别。

The deep plan also prompted Architecture Initiative to insert vertical voids through the existing waffle-slab structure, adding roof lights in order to bring daylight into the heart of the interior and create open circulation with visual links between floors to visually connect the different year groups and teaching spaces. On the top floor, a four-court sports hall, lined in perforated plywood paneling has been inserted as a new steel structure into the former external courtyard. The facility benefits from infused natural light through translucent polycarbonate panels; an unusual but beautiful feature for a school sports hall. As much as possible, the existing finish of the original building has been respected and reused, with a clear distinction created between old and new.







现有的楼板结构仍然保持裸露，新建筑的机械通风、电力设施也是同样的做法，标准化0.9米模块网格是整个教学楼的空间基本布局模数。白色石膏隔墙与新旧空间都不相同，它们插入混凝土外壳之中，将教学空间与院落分隔开。玻璃面板也能够构成视觉上的连通以及采光的作用。学校的每个区域都设置有色彩丰富的指示标识系统，它们都设置于各个面板之中，让学生们对于各个方向的指示一目了然。

The existing waffle-slab structure remains exposed, as do the new building mechanical and electrical services, and its standardized 0.9m-centered modular grid is used as a basis to inform and set out the spatial arrangement of the entire school. Differentiating the old and new, white plastered partitions have been inserted into the concrete shell to divide teaching rooms from the atria. Where possible, glass screens are also used to keep visual links and lightwells open. Each area of the school benefits from colorful wayfinding devices, seen mainly in the glass manifestations and the vibrant flooring choices for the main circulation stairs, acting as a wayfinding strategy to navigate the different areas of the school.





















建筑设计：Architecture Initiative
地点：美国，诺坦普顿
类别：学校
面积：22250.0 ㎡
项目时间：2019年
摄影：Luke Hayes, Will Scott
制造商：Rodeca, Flowcrete, Planet Partitioning, Rockfon, iGuzzini, -, Metal Technology
客户：Northamptonshire County Council
客户（投资方）：Department for Education / Northamptonshire County Council
客户（使用者）：East Midlands Academy Trust / Northampton International Academy
主承包商：Vinci Construction
建筑部分：Architecture Initiative
结构土木工程：MACE Group
MEP工程：Mott MacDonald
项目管理：Turner & Townsend
景观设计：Architecture Initiative &Plincke
承包管理：Currie & Brown
工程造价：Currie & Brown
标识系统：Architecture Initiative & Studio Chehade
声学工程：Ion Acoustics
放火工程顾问：JGA

Architects: Architecture Initiative
Location: Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Category: Schools
Area: 22250.0 ㎡
Project Year: 2019
Photographs: Luke Hayes, Will Scott
Manufacturers: Rodeca, Flowcrete, Planet Partitioning, Rockfon, iGuzzini, -, Metal Technology
Client: Northamptonshire County Council
Client (funder): Department for Education / Northamptonshire County Council
Client (end user): East Midlands Academy Trust / Northampton International Academy
Main Contractor: Vinci Construction
Architect: Architecture Initiative
Structural & Civil Engineers: MACE Group
MEP Engineers: Mott MacDonald
Project Management: Turner & Townsend
Landscape Architects: Architecture Initiative &Plincke
Contract Administration: Currie & Brown
Quantity Surveyor: Currie & Brown
Signage &Wayfinding: Architecture Initiative & Studio Chehade
Acoustic Engineer: Ion Acoustics
Fire Engineering Consultant: JGA