{"id":745195,"date":"2024-06-19T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/?p=745195"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:52:00","slug":"david-chipperfield-completes-renewal-of-royal-academy-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/buildings\/david-chipperfield-completes-renewal-of-royal-academy-schools","title":{"rendered":"David Chipperfield completes renewal of Royal Academy Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Burlington Gardens campus for the Royal Academy Schools, the postgraduate art school at the Royal Academy of Arts, has consisted of a restoration and renewal project \u2013 preserving the rich heritage of the buildings \u2013 as well as an expansion and upgrade of facilities. This is the second phase of Chipperfield\u2019s masterplan for the Royal Academy, the main first phase<\/a> having opened in 2018.<\/p>\n

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The latest work has carefully restored historic studios designed by Royal Academicians Sidney Smirke and Norman Shaw, as well as the cast corridor and the Dunard Fund Life Drawing Studio, built between 1870 and 1885. It also creates a suite of technical workshops to support all technologies, including a time-based media suite and a new library and student canteen.<\/p>\n

Around 150 of the RA\u2019s historic casts and artworks from its collection have been reinstalled in newly curated long-term displays throughout the site.<\/p>\n

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The buildings have been renamed the Julia and Hans Rausing Campus in recognition of a lead gift of \u00a310 million from philanthropists Julia and Hans Rausing. Other significant funding came from several other foundations and individuals.<\/p>\n

Visitors are currently able to explore the new campus during the graduating third-year students\u2019 end-of-year exhibition<\/a>, which runs until 30 June.<\/p>\n

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The second phase of the practice\u2019s masterplan for the RA complex is the restoration, reorganisation, and extension of the RA Schools, founded in 1769 and the longest-established school of fine art in the UK. The RA Schools has been located on the lower ground floor at the northern end of Burlington House, the RA\u2019s historic home, since the 1870s and was hidden from view until the new public route, which bisects its Cast Corridor, was created in 2018 during the first phase of the masterplan. While this move brought the school into a more direct relationship with the public, the new project affirms the RA Schools as an integral and celebrated part of a living institution, ensuring it is fit to serve students for the next 100 years.<\/p>\n

The project has prioritised the rationalisation of the spaces and maximisation of light while improving access, circulation, services and thermal performance. The revitalised campus has more studio space, a suite of technical workshops, a library and a canteen. It opens on to the landscaped courtyard between Burlington House and 6 Burlington Gardens \u2013 the historic building that the RA expanded into in 2018.<\/p>\n

The Cast Corridor runs from east to west through the RA Schools and forms the spine of the project. Designed by Sydney Smirke, this vaulted space contains casts and artworks from the RA\u2019s collection. Former infill workshop spaces have been relocated, allowing the axis to run the full length of the schools again, per Smirke\u2019s original designs, and enabling a new level access to the campus. At the point where the Cast Corridor crosses the public route through the RA, one of the former studio spaces is reimagined as a gallery, the Weston Studio, to showcase students\u2019 work, further strengthening its public presence.<\/p>\n

To the north of the Cast Corridor are two layers of studio spaces running parallel to each other. The Smirke studios are adjacent to the corridor and date from the 1870s, while the Shaw studios are a hipped-roof addition from the 1880s. The complex sectional arrangement means both sets of studios have generous ceiling heights and north-facing windows to receive natural light. The restoration maintains the character of these studios but with a new lead roof, insulation and windows.<\/p>\n

Sacrificial wall linings hide services and provide pin-up space for the students. The westernmost of the Smirke studios houses the Dunard Fund Life Drawing Studio, a key feature of the RA Schools and the oldest of its kind in the UK.<\/p>\n

To the south of the Cast Corridor are the library and the canteen, housed in vaulted rooms which were previously subdivided with mezzanine levels. These were removed revealing the clarity of the spaces while the brickwork was repaired, and new floors of reclaimed pitch pine installed. Deeper into the plan is a new audiovisual studio and the architecture studio. Located just off this studio is the project\u2019s one new-build element: the East Yard extension, a lean-to structure using cross-laminated timber and glulam, which provides an additional daylit gallery and studio space.<\/p>\n

This reorganisation project builds on works started with the masterplan: consolidating the reorganisation of the RA Schools campus around the two spines of the Lovelace Courtyard and the Cast Corridor, balancing a public presence with a necessary privacy for the campus, and bringing back the clarity of Smirke and Shaw\u2019s original proposals.
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The RA Schools provides a free, independent programme invested in artistic development at postgraduate level. A space for study and art making, committed to the questions that arise from making art now. This renovation of the RA Schools makes it fit for the years to come and provides outstanding conditions for our students.<\/p>\n

An art school in Burlington House on Piccadilly is the clearest possible signal of the RA\u2019s commitment to the teaching and practice of art. A healthy education, like a healthy diet, should include variety. This requires the opportunity to encounter a wide range of thinking processes and approaches. Education in the arts at all levels engages students in problem-solving, which leads to innovation and engagement with complexity. In a healthy society this should be available to all.<\/p>\n

We look forward to welcoming visitors to the new campus during the next graduation exhibition, the RA Schools Show 2024, in June.
\nEliza Bonham Carter, curator and director, Royal Academy Schools<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the founding principles of the Royal Academy was to provide a school of art to train the next generation of artists. 255 years later, the RA Schools remains one of the leading and most dynamic art schools in the world.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of our generous supporters of the RA Schools restoration and renewal project, including a lead gift from Julia and Hans Rausing. Julia Rausing was a regular visitor to the RA, including during the recent restoration works in the RA Schools. We feel privileged to be associated with her name; she was a true ambassador for the arts and young artists. On behalf of everyone at the RA we would like to reiterate how grateful we are for her support on this project. Her legacy lives on through our new campus which will continue to provide an exceptional postgraduate programme in an accessible and fully updated site for the artists of the future.
\nRebecca Salter, president, Royal Academy of Arts<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Project data<\/h3>\n

Start on site<\/strong> 2021
\nCompletion date<\/strong> 2024
\nGross internal floor area<\/strong> 2,200m2<\/sup>
\nConstruction cost<\/strong> Undisclosed
\nArchitect<\/strong> David Chipperfield Architects
\nHeritage consultant<\/strong> Julian Harrap Architects
\nClient<\/strong> Royal Academy of Arts
\nStructural engineer<\/strong> Alan Baxter Associates
\nM&E consultant<\/strong> Arup
\nQuantity surveyor<\/strong> Gardiner & Theobald (Stage 3), Core Five (post Stage 3)
\nAccess consultant<\/strong> David Bonnett Associates
\nLighting consultant<\/strong> Arup
\nFire consultant<\/strong> Arup
\nProject manager<\/strong> Buro Four
\nCDM consultant<\/strong> Lendlease
\nMain contractor <\/strong>Knight Harwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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