University of Greenwich Avery Hill Phase 1 teaching building The first phase of the expansion of the University of Greenwich Avery Hill Campus included a major new sports teaching building providing a sports hall and changing facilities, a 250 seat lecture theatre and a general teaching space for a further 300 students for the School of Health and Social Care. The design focussed on ensuring that the building provided this 2500 square metre building with bright, naturally lit teaching classrooms. The building is conventionally steel framed with concrete plank floors and well-insulated blockwork infill external walls, with the diverse functions within the programme expressed through the articulation of three main blocks and their external cladding materials. In particular, the significance of the main lecture theatre on the site is expressed by its unique form and zinc cladding to both roof and walls, forming a solid mass in opposition to the glazed corner staircase of the Academic Building opposite, with its curved walls leading into the main entrance. University of Greenwich Avery Hill phase 1 Academic Building The brief for the Academic Building on the Avery Hill Campus of the University of Greenwich was to provide both general access teaching and conference space. The building has been configured to provide four general teaching classrooms for 200 students, a school office for the School of Health and Social Care, a roof level suite of meeting rooms and workspaces for around 100 academic staff belonging to the Departments of Family Care and Mental Health and the Department of Health Development. This aspect of the programme to provide open plan staff office space is perhaps the most innovative, involving transferring academic staff from traditional individual cellular offices elsewhere on the site into a completely new environment. Close working with the users was required to agree how the spaces were subdivided with purpose designed screens and furniture to create and define different layers of personal and group working space within larger open plan areas.