Ratoath College is colorful public structure, which accommodates 850 second level pupils. The building has two points of access. The form defines entrances, social areas, external spaces and responds to the nature– one contained the south facing garden and the second fixing the south west corner of the building.

The windows are timber and the building provides the standard Department of Education and Science room layouts and uses the circulation and socials space to resolve geometries. The central entrance head for the GP area.

 

The GP area is a south facing volume looking into the enclosed garden. There are significant volumes within the building, which provide vertical and diagonal visual connections. Materials are used as exposed blockwork reinforced concrete piers and sofffits, rendered planes of colour, exposed steel balustrades and benches, precast concrete external seats, exposed pipework etc..