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City & Islington College
| location: | Camden Road, Islington, London |
| client: | City & Islington College |
| architect: | Wilkinson Eyre |
| main contractor: | William Verry |
| project scope: | Curtain Walling, Windows & Doors |
EAG’s early involvement with this project translated into the buffer zone glazing design. The detailed design allowed for the glazing to accommodate all specified movements and tolerances of the primary structure, together with environmental occupancy class loadings and wind loadings.
The glass skin, open at the top and bottom and positioned one metre in front of the existing facade, extends for 80 metres along the Camden Road frontage, unifying the expanded centre. The single-glazed skin announces the centre’s identity and entices visitors into the building as it appears to sit on a series of two-metre high letters, the facade comprises accentuated horizontal bands fritted with four different degrees of translucency.
The glazed skin functions as an intelligent buffer zone, enabling the centre to meet guidelines for temperature and environmental control through sustainable means. Working with new roof-mounted vents that draw air through the centre of the building, the skin modifies the internal environment, allowing occupants to open windows for the ventilation without experiencing road noise or pollution. With the addition of timber louvred solar shading on the south side of the building, comfortable temperatures are achieved within, without the need for air-conditioning, despite intense computer usage.
To ensure sustained durability in this high traffic environment, EAG employed a high performance aluminium system from Schuco International, predominantly an anodized FW60+ curtain walling, accentuated with 100mm aerofoil capping to the transom’s on the main façade of the north elevation, and a mixture of FW50+ curtain walling, RS50 windows and RS65 doors elsewhere on the project.