A rainbow-coloured facade shaped like a row of houses fronts this school dining hall in southeast England, designed by UK studios De Rosee Sa and PMR to reference the stories of Roald Dahl (+ slideshow).

Named Little Hall, the extension to Prestwood Infant School in Buckinghamshire contains a kitchen and servery providing hot school meals for up to 96 children at a time.

London-based De Rosee Sa teamed up with local studio PMR to come up with their playful solution. The aim was to recreate one of the stories of the late author Roald Dahl, who lived locally and is said to have based the character of Miss Trunchbull from his book Matilda on a past headteacher at the school.
"We wanted to create a building that the children would find visually stimulating and enjoy engaging with on a daily basis," architect Max de Rosee told Dezeen.
To achieve this the team looked to Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox, whose main character states that "every day we will eat like kings".
In the book, the fox describes "a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side ? separate houses for badgers and moles and rabbits and weasels and foxes".

The architects recreated this village using painted cedar battens. On the two sides of the structure that face onto the children's playground, thin battens of different lengths draw the irregular roofline of houses onto the white polycarbonate facade behind.

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