Belvedere's new block a lesson in concentration

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / February 10

The new science block in Belvedere College is a dynamic space designed to serve a number of uses, including an all-round education. The Dublin schoolboys move from classroom to classroom on their morning break, swirling around each other in an innate choreography, creating the thermal energy generated by teenagers in crowds. From the canteen this heat is drawn up through the beautiful atrium of Belvedere's new science block - where natural ventilation counteracts it. Yet it's the aesthetics - rather than the functionality - of the space that hits you first. Bleached beech battens in symmetrical sequence rise up the walls to the glass roof, creating an ordered ladder that makes your eyes climb upwards.

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