Ibstock Place School

Replacing the existing dining hall with new high-quality dining facilities and a new multi-purpose space for sixth-form students, the new refectory features a striking glulam lattice-frame ceiling with inset panels of oak. The dining hall, seating over 500, provides a multi-use space throughout the day and serves as an inspiring high-quality venue to host evening events such as parents’ evenings and productions. The mezzanine-level multipurpose space offers social and study space, and provides access to the sixth form area.

Our sustainable environmental design maximises the use of natural light and ventilation with extensive consultation and modelling completed to ensure the building is designed to reflect how it will be used. Advanced works were completed to divert services and demolish the existing building prior to constructing the new refectory. We also upgraded the electrical supply to the wider campus to support the new refectory and rationalise a number of existing supplies. 

To keep with the building’s simple elegance and clear lines, the advanced services had to be implemented as discreetly as possible, which required some creative engineering solutions. Even though the building accommodates a full commercial kitchen with specialist pastry room and hospitality annexe, the large kitchen ventilation ductwork is not visible. This is because it is hidden in a specially designed chimney that blends unobtrusively into the overall picture.