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Architects: Studio DERA
- Area: 994 m²
- Year: 2025
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Photographs:Lorenzo Zandri
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Manufacturers: Cibes Lift, Eastside Timber, Lindum Turf, Planteria Group, Style Curtain, The Iron Age Metalworks, Velfac
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Lead Architects: Max Dewdney
Text description provided by the architects. Studio DERA has transformed a former school swimming pool into a sustainable multi-purpose learning and wellbeing space for Waltham Forest College. With the college rapidly expanding its student body, finding new ways to accommodate educational and extracurricular needs was a priority. Studio DERA had already run a sustainable materials workshop for WFC students while building a hempcrete and timber community center and nursery in nearby Higham Hill. College Principal & CEO Janet Gardner then invited Studio DERA directors Max Dewdney and Marcel Rahm to reimagine the long disused swimming pool site and do a feasibility study.
