... Secondary School Renovation and stage Design

FINAL DESIGN

...Secondary School Renovation and stage Design.

I was challenged by my superiors (Senior Architect, Director and my Supervisor) to come up with a stage Design that would suite the... School situated in James town, Stellenbosch and they also came with their own ideas as well. We then had a meeting with the Head-Master , project manager and other staff members of the school to present to them the ideas we had of how the stage will look and function.

The school staff seemed to like my idea, which was like the design above (final design) but with access approaching from the sides as well. Since the staff also had a say they decide that we remove the access on the sides since it was going to cause untidy lines yet they wanted single and tidy straight lines when the school pupils are entering the stage for performances, presentations etc .

This a simply not so fancy stage design, yet at the same time it does have aesthetic appeal and proper function. I hope the final product becomes so exciting to the school children's eye that they would want to spend the whole day on Assembly.

As part of the Design process and renovation we had to design a new wall as to fill that space covered with translucent sheeting as shown on the two first images. And the final product will look something like the last image. The walls in between the columns positioned both sides where the stage ends will be painted white or any bright colour, to allow for a projector presentation and the brickwork on the sides will be exposed having those narrow windows in each side.