LEARNING TO SHARE

摘要

'A school should be a community building that just happens to used for education.' This increasingly common sentiment was nevertheless a strong determinant of the building. The quote comes from Russ Currie, who led the project for North Somerset Council and who, significantly, is leisure and special projects manager at the council, rather than part of the education department. The building's name, The Campus, rather than such-and-such school, reflects this focus. The client was also looking for something a bit special, a benchmark, from what are the council's first completely new schools since its inception in 1997. Shared school and community use has become the rule rather than the exception, of course, though making it work is not always straightforward. The big pluses here, apart from David Morley Architects' design, are that there is a new start, staff are committed to making the sharing work, and a facilities manager has been appointed to manage these shared premises for the two schools and for the community, with a brief also to develop community use (and revenue).