Haggerston secondary school, UK | Ernö Goldfinger & associates
Haggerston Secondary School is a comprehensive school for 1,000 girls, incorporating a Youth Club and Evening Institute.
The School consists of three distinct blocks :
BLOCK 'A': Entrance block containing an Assembly Hall and Music Rooms as well as the Administration.
BLOCK ‘B’ : The main teaching block has a ground floor, three upper floors, a partial fourth floor (Geography Rooms) basement
boiler house and tank rooms for the whole school. There are three staircases giving access to the various floors.
BLOCK ‘C’: The gymnasium block is linked to the teaching block by covered open-sided gallery. This has, on the ground floor, an open games hall facing East which is two stories high, as well as a club room and office for the Youth Leader. On the first floor are changing rooms and showers and on the top floor are two large gymnasia, storage space for equipment as well as office and showers for the staff.
BLOCK ‘D’: School-keeper’s cottage with garden. There are extensive grounds. To the East of the buildings is laid out for sports. On this side there is also an extensive car park and bicycle sheds.
On the West side to the South of Block , A ’ is a quiet garden. To the West is an arena for theatricals adjoining the Assembly Hall.
In this area there is also a visitors car park.
Structure:
BLOCK ‘A’: is a structure of Staffordshire bricks covered by a coffered reinforced concrete deck, freely spanning over the
Assembly Hall 55 ft. x58 ft. The Music Rooms have a double skin
brick structure, the two skins being in dependently founded. The inner skin of the brickwork carries the ceiling structure while the outer skin carries the floor structure. The double glazing is also atta ched to its respective skins. These rooms, which can be hermetically sealed, have a special ventilating system. The Assembly Hall is also mechanically ventilated.
BLOCK ‘B’: The general conception of Block ‘B’ is that of open decks supported on reinforced concrete volumns. The modulation of the façade allows for rearrangement of partitions at will. All the
outside columns form vertical ducts connected with horizontal ducts at each deck.
The convectors, which are incorporated in the membrane of the façade, are designed in such a way that wherever partitions are
re-ected, they will function without alteration.
BLOC ‘C’: This is a reinforced concrete structure, the gymnasia being carried on four columns and two short walls. The long walls of the gymnasia form large beams from which hang the soffit of the
Games Hall, which is an area 50 ftx 100ft, without obstructions.
BLOCK ‘D’: has load-bearing Staffordshire blue brick walls and reinforced con crete floors and roof.