THE BUILDING & MECHANICS SCHOOL, BARKING & DAGENHAM

by Luke Eve

The vision for this school was always heavily influenced by the initial design programme of creating work based around 100 lines. Our proposed design school would play a vital role in connecting the local community together, Sunday market and new creatives looking to explore this career. The school has four main drivers in which it hopes to achieve through its learning spaces, teaching and design. These are; Providing skills for future generations, Integration between construction industries, methods and techniques, Continual building development through its students and Give back projects to local residents.

The Building and Mechanics school sets out to achieve a high quality of teaching, learning and discovering through clever building design, collaboration spaces and hands on learning. The school will provide the young and older generations of Barking and Dagenham a chance to re-discover the hands on culture that once fuelled this rich and vibrant borough.