MUCH OFTHIS BUILDING'S DELIGHT COMES FROM ITS PALETTE OF LOCAL MATERIALS

摘要

ORMS was founded in 1984 and is based in Clerkenwell, London. Aware of the danger of relying on one type of work, the 50-strong practice has deliberately undertaken a diverse portfolio of projects to safeguard against changing economic trends. Its most recent educational projects have included the American School in London, the UMIST School of Management in Manchester, and work on site at University College School, Hampstead. Uppingham School's new music centre by ORMS is a rarity: a successful marriage of modern and vernacular. This is a sensitive, understated building - with an edge, because of its unabashedly modern detailing. A few hundred yards from the town's historic market square, ORMS has inserted a large building on a restricted site where the school campus meets the town. Massing, roof pitches and symmetries, or rather asymmetries, have been carefully resolved. Much of this building's delight comes from its palette of local materials, its studied capturing of views, and its careful handling of light.