Dutch architecture studio OMA has unveiled the School of Science and Sports at a historic college in Brighton, which merges academic and athletic facilities in one building.
The linear block, which is located alongside Brighton College's main playing field, is OMA's first sports building and its first major project at a secondary school.
"Its always nice to do a first as an architect as you need to find out about a lot of new things ? like cricket and rugby ? and we are champions of questioning everything," said OMA partner Ellen van Loon.

The building contains facilities for both sports and science departments as the college's headmaster wanted to break down some of the barriers between departments.
"Our brief was to find a way to connect the sciences of chemistry, physics and biology with the science of sport," explained Brighton College headmaster Richard Cairns. "Buildings can either break or enforce a silo mentality [between departments], and here Ellen has broken down silos."

The majority of the building's sports functions are on the ground floor, with the science department's classrooms on the upper floors.
"The original idea was for a more conventional arrangement with sports and science on either side of an atrium," van Loon told Dezeen.
"But being OMA we thought 'lets mix things up'. Also it made more sense to have the sports facilities on the ground floor alongside the sports field with the science laboratories above...