Pop Up Teaching Spaces designed by FBM Architects can help provide additional space in an economic way within a short timescale to meet social distancing requirements as schools, colleges and universities begin to re-open.

• Economical & competitive with modular temporary accommodation (estimated £2000-2400/m2 construction cost).
• Flexible, spacious, simple to erect.
• Ideally suited to high-profile campuses where protective stakeholders & planning authorities may object to modular solutions.
• Excellent ventilation and insulation to create healthy, sustainable accommodation.
• Festive, fun appearance to help lift the spirits of people inside & out.

Pop Up Teaching Spaces designed by FBM Architects are based on simple design principles:

• ‘Kit of Parts’ approach which allows space to be installed where it would be difficult to erect a modular solution.
• More attractive than modular classrooms – important to planners, academics and fee-paying students. Means there is less pressure to remove them when the crisis is over. Can be re-purposed as pop-up libraries, social learning spaces, teaching or office accommodation.
• Inherently flexible – classrooms could be separated by solid partitions or heavy curtains to create larger spaces.
• Plug-in modules to the corridor can provide WCs, Server Rooms, Stores etc.
• Excellent ventilation and insulation to create healthy, sustainable accommodation.

Facts and figures:

• Each classroom/seminar room is 9.5m wide by 6.5m deep creating a 62m2 space. These proportions are good for sightlines, acoustics and accessibility.
• Rooms are 3m+ tall with attractive vaulted ceiling created by the insulated fabric roofs.
• Corridors are 3.3m wide allowing two-way traffic while still maintaining social distancing.
• The pop-up spaces can be provided in standard and enhanced versions.
• Standard models achieve Building Regulations Part L & Part F compliance.
• Enhanced models are upgraded to suit specific client needs (BREEAM, SKA, LEED) with insulation and air-tightness criteria in excess of Building Regulations.

What are the Pop Up Teaching Spaces made from?

• Structure – steel frame using standard off-the-shelf sections
• Envelope – external walls are profiled metal sheet or timber cladding on timber SIPS panels. Windows are painted timber frames with low-e double glazing. Floors are pre-fabricated timber cassette panels.
• Roof – tensioned twin-skin membrane with multi-foil insulation and fire resistant coating.
• Fit-out – to suit client brief with natural materials including linoleum sheet or sisal carpets with Fermacell board partitions and natural paint finishes.
• Heating & ventilation – air-source heat pumps with natural ventilation (standard) or MVHR ventilation (enhanced).
• Lighting – 100% LED lighting with absence detection and daylight dimming.

For more information about our Pop Up Teaching Spaces download a brochure here and contact  Simon Fraser at FBM Architects by telephone 020 7251 0543 or by emailing sf@fbmarchitects.com