Employer: Anglo-American School, Sofia
Area for Stage 1 and Stage 2: 5511.86 m2 in total
Starting: March 2018
Completion: May 2019
In order to stimulate the creative activity of the students, a new building for arts - Art Center was built with a total area of 4035.38 m2.
The art center is a two-storey building with an intermediate level and a basement, equipped with the latest technologies for sound, audio-visual arts and multimedia presentations.
The main core of the building is a multifunctional theater hall for training, performances, conferences. It is equipped with 328 seats on the first level and 26 seats on balconies - a total of 354 seats. It has all the necessary service premises, such as control booths, workshop for decors with direct access to the hall, equipment room, sound and light insulation vestibules.
At elevation ± 0.00, there is a Black Box Hall with up to 108 seats in movable stands, a choir room, an orchestra room, 3 sound and light insulation vestibules, as well as 2 rehearsal rooms.
At elevation +6.20 were built art halls for digital arts, video production, as well as a conference room.
At the intermediate level of elevation +3.10, there is a technical room, a material warehouse and a control cabin for the theater, type "Black box", and in the basement there are premises, warehouses and technical premises.
The building is made of monolithic reinforced concrete structure and mixed roof construction - metal and reinforced concrete. The supporting walls are made of reinforced concrete skeletal structure and brickwork, the partition walls are of gypsum cardboard.
Navigation on the floors of the building is via an elevator, with a cabin, sized for wheelchairs and for theatrical scenery. The showroom has convenient access to both levels for wheelchairs for disabled people. On the second level there is a ramp for going directly out.
There are facilities for the disabled, both at the visitor's toilet and at the administrative center of the Art Center.
The facade surfaces are thermally insulated and are treated with plaster, wooden and stone cladding. The glazing has PVC windows.
Block H - total area 868,46 sq.m
The new unit H is an extension to the existing Unit G to increase the number of classrooms for approximately 230 primary and secondary school students. The extension is on two levels.
Extension of Block D - total area 506,00 sq.m
The extension of Block D is intended to increase classrooms for elementary school children. The extension is on two levels.
A security building and an ancillary building designed to rest drivers serving the school have been built.
The facade surfaces are thermally insulated and treated with plaster and stone lining for plinth.
A new car park has been built with 166 parking spaces. Disabled parking spaces are envisaged and the accessibility requirements for disabled persons are met. There are no stairs on the way from the parking lots to the individual blocks.
Complete landscaping of the property has been completed and part of the existing green areas around the existing buildings and the parking area have been reconstructed. The whole territory is planted with permanent high and shrubby vegetation.
LEED Gold Certificate Expected - International Energy Efficiency Certificate - The Art Center will be the first professional audiovisual building in Bulgaria with a LEED Gold Certificate.
Permission for use STAGE 1 - Extension of a new H-Building, Extension of D-Building, Security Building and Auxiliary Building № CT-05-1059 / 29.08.2018
Permission for use STAGE 2 - Extension of new H-building, Extension of D-building, Security building and Auxiliary building № CT-05-603 / 16.05.2019