2018 Progress Report
This year has seen us add vital members to our Assembly & Arts Building team. We are now working with The Space Factory to design optimal spaces for our theatre, Drama Studio (Black Box theatre), and Music Recital Room. The Space Factory is a multidisciplinary design practice that provides consulting services to architects, design teams, owners and users for the development of architectural projects for the arts. They have worked on high profile projects worldwide including the Cité de la Musique (Geneva, Switzerland), the Royal Symphony Building (Bangkok, Thailand), the Lyric Theater Complex (Hong Kong, China) and the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany).
On the technical side we have appointed Fire Safety Consultants INEXIS, Engineering partners IFEC Engineering to advise on energy efficiency, building materials and acoustics, and Civil Engineers Schnetzer Puskas to ensure structural designs meet Swiss regulations. These teams are now working with the school steering committee and our architects Durisch + Nolli to finalise designs to submit for planning approval.