Darwen Aldridge Community Academy in Darwen, United Kingdom

March 19, 2011 Category: Education, Public Buildings

The Darwen Aldridge Community Academy designed by Aedas is located in Darwen, United Kingdom. Conceived as a simple triangular volume the buildingworks with the steeply sloping 21m gradient of the site to open up access to the town on five levels providing stunning views and forming a central visual and physical connection with the town centre through innovative use of levels, materials and site topography.

Unique to DACA, and in support of its specialism, is the provision of an ‘entrepreneurship bridge’ containing business incubator units available to anyone in the local community interested in starting their own business. This close contact between the business start-up community and the Academy is central to the vision of regeneration and a valuable curriculum resource, as it allow students to learn from shared experience.

Darwen Aldridge Community Academy design by Aedas