Dining Hall

Colerne Primary School

Colerne Primary School Dining Hall – which was designed through a series of collaborative workshops held with the primary school - is an exercise in demonstrating that beautiful, sustainable and light filled school buidings are achievable for circa £1000 m2. The building is an exercise in simplicity and efficiency. The planning of the building at a site level creates a new courtyard outside the hall that will be landscaped in the future to provide external eating and growing spaces. The building itself is generated around one simple section, created from a series of prototypical and lightweight green Douglas Fir flitch beams that add definition to the inside of the building and are a clear diagram of the structural forces. The building is clad externally in slow grown Siberian Larch which will last 75 years, with no maintenance.