The Sackler Building
The Sackler Building School of Painting is the first phase of a major new campus for the RCA in Battersea, London.
The aim was to create studios to match the quality of the best Victorian painting studios – spacious and light. The original factory roof has high performance north light glazing to flood the double height studios with even, diffused light. The studios are naturally ventilated through a bespoke system designed for the space.
Two rows of 1.1 metre diameter circular openings, on the roof, allow fresh air into the studios below.
Carefully detailed exposed services coordinated with the architecture.
North facing pitched glazing provides an even, diffused light for the studios.
Each studio has a 1.1 metre diameter circular opening to allow fresh air in.
Oak strips embedded in the screed floor indicate where movable studio partitions can be fixed in order to avoid the underfloor heating pipes.
Luminaires were carefully integrated on the mullions to provide artificial light from the same direction as the daylight, whilst also being a discrete solution.
The Sackler Building is one project in our continuing story of nearly 50 years of delivering education buildings.
For more images of The Sackler Building visit Max Fordham on Flickr.