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fully trying to conceal the mediocre development that
llunstanton's periphery has gone through since the
1950s.
Against this messy bacl\:ground which is the result
of negligence and absence of planning, the ordered,
long two-storey volume of the school displays an
assuredness that makes it into an object which stands
apart, something from another planet The building is
made of rough brownish yellow brick, steel frames
and panels not unlike those used for industrial build­
ing of the period and the colour scheme, black for
the frames, yellowish white for the panels and red for
the opening windows, is not overtly aiming for the
spectacular. It is only when approaching the school
that one can distinguish the order of the building, the
skin of line vertical and horizontal lines produced by
the steel transoms and mullions and the carefully
proportioned blank brick surfaces that render the
building into a defined object and mediate between
the un-countable and repetitive and the singular form.
Two one-storey out-buildings, one a satellite com­
pletely detached from the main building and advanc­
ing towards the street, the other recessed and con­
nected to the entrance hall, form an asymmetrical
forecourt to the main entrace. Then there are the
inevitable attributes of a school yard: bicycle sheds,
an open area for the pupils and staff to gather and the
school kitchen which is housed in the lower building
attached to lhe main volume.
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Tekening door Peter Smithson van de oostzijde van het gebouw met de watertank I
Drawing by P