A Simple Victory

摘要

'There's the money shot!' says Piers Taylor, as we pull up in a narrow lane on the edge of Bristol, where I have come to see Mitchell Taylor Workshop's f new boarding house at Badminton School for girls.The tableau that practice director Taylor has framed for me in the car windscreen is an arresting Mght: the untreated timber-clad first and second floors ot the building provocatively cantilevering over the school's stone boundary wall; the project's bulk, and with it all notion ot scale and context, obscured by a tree. This is the view where the many little victories of the project come together.rnBath-based Mitchell Taylor Workshop was formed in 2005, and its Moonshine residence,rnhome to Taylor, won this year's AJ Small Projects Awards (AJ 15.01.09). This building, named Sanderson House, has proved testing for the firm. Mitchell Taylor Workshop secured the commission on its formation in 2005, but two years of negotiating a site strategy in the already cluttered campus delayed any real design work. Project architect Kris Eley describes the multi-headed client (bursar, board of governors, parents, headteacher and boarding mistresses) as 'a difficult beast to satisfy'.