The University of East London’s Cass School of Education is one of London’s leading centres for teacher training, off ering highly successful programmes at Primary, Secondary and Post-Compulsory levels.
The Secondary teacher training at UEL has been rated as amongst the best in the country. In the most recent full Ofsted inspection of the secondary PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) provision in 2008, was awarded a Grade 1(Outstanding) for Management and Quality Assurance and also a Grade 1 for training. This makes us a Category A provider.
The continued growth of the School requires a new purpose build facility to continue to provide award winning programmes. The new facility replaces their existing accommodation and will support up to 470 full and part time students together with 115 full and part time staff .
The building is conceived as a simple rectangular volume with a split level fl oor plan poviding three storeys of teaching accommodation and four storeys of predominantly office accommodation. The two differing uses are separated by an open atrium space that serves as both circulation and foyer space but also to bring natural light and ventilation into the depth of the building.
The teaching floors face North, out onto Cedar Road with the top floor computing classrooms set back from the main two storey facade. The four storey staff accommodation faces South, into the campus. This area is conceived as a new landscaped area bounded by the Cass School of Education to the North, the Arthur Edwards Building to the East, the rear of the new Computing Centre to the South and a proposed Learning Resource Centre to the West along Water Lane.
As with the Computer Centre, the material palette for the external materials has been deliberately limited to those already utilised at the Campus. Thus the main facades are defined with bands of grey fi bre board cladding, strip windows and smooth rendered panels. Again the street facade utilises a red stock brick. The curved walls of the music, dance and drama studio located adjacent to the main entrance from the new green have been picked out with a coloured render.
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