Mahdlo Youth Zone Oldham
Oldham was identified as one of the areas that the charitable organisation OnSide would develope a state-of-the-art Youth Zone receiving £5m funding from the MyPlace programme.
The aim was to deliver high quality activities and experiences for young people from Oldham aged 8-19 (25 with a disability) to enhance the quality of their lives and provide support services for those who need additional help to achieve their potential.
Mahdlo is a three-storey building which has a dedicated sports hall, climbing wall, gym/fitness suite, boxing studio, dance and performing arts studio and music and multi-media spaces. Also included are a cafe, games and social areas and an outdoor 3G pitch.
The building was designed to let as much daylight into the spaces as possible with many areas glazed in Rodeca’s 50mm polycarbonate panels in various finishes. A large translucent polycarbonate roof above the main circulation area floods the double height space with natural light. Opaque panels to the high level glazing on the gymnasium reduces glare whilst allowing plenty of diffused light for safer activities. The use of colour and pastel panels to the social areas provide welcoming, bright and vibrant atmospheric spaces.
Client: OnSide
Architect: Eric Wright Group
Product: Facade: PC 2550-10 Full colour & opal/colour Duocolor
Roof: RT F25
Size: Facade 300m2, Roof 210m2
Charlton Workstack
Situated in Charlton, south east London. Architects DRMM's intent was to design affordable low rent, multi use industrial work spaces for local businesses. With residential construction monopolising available land spaces, workspaces are being pushed further and further afield.
The CLT stack design makes the most of the relatively small footprint of the building to increase the available floor space to each unit over five levels.
Each unit provides a frontal area consisting of a mixed glazed and solid window section for ventilation. The adjacent large polycarbonate glazed area uses the PC 2550-10 50mmm thick panel to maximise diffused light into the space whilst providing a U-value of 0.90 W/m2K.
The unit side walls and soffits were also clad with PC 2540-7 panels of the same finish providing a consistant and light appearance but structurally and aesthetically. The stair core to the rear of the building is bathed in diffused natural daylight through the vertical polycarbonate glazing to each level.
Client: Greenwich Enterprise Board
Architect: DRMM
Product: Facade: PC 2550-10 Kristall, PC 2540-7 Kristall/Opal
Size: Facade 600m2
