2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
St Albans Catholic Chapel
While created as a prototype design, this small building achieves a strong and welcoming presence in its corner location on the school grounds. The dropped roof corner signals human scale, while the high timber wall indicates a formal entrance. Refined detailing, acoustics and the play on geometry create a quiet, soothing space for students, teachers and clergy. The users remark at the immediate calming effect of the space on students, confirming that the architects have met their brief in creating a repeatable design the size of a classroom, but with a remarkably different spatial experience.
- Practice
- WSP Architecture
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
