Adobe Village Hounslow Heath Infant and Nursery School (an Open House Festival event)

Sat 16 September, Drop in between 10am – 2pm, FREE

In October 2009, Small Earth was approached by Hounslow Heath Infants’ School in West London to build an outside play dome as part of a British Airport Authority (BAA) noise attenuation scheme.

The school is directly under the flight path of Heathrow’s southern runway and outside play for the children is dominated by ear-deafening interruptions every 2 minutes as landing aircraft pass a few hundred feet over their heads.

Sound tests inside the semi-underground dome showed a noise reduction of over 17 decibels and a considerable reduction in the duration of the noise event.

Work commenced in June 2010 and expanded to provide a contoured playscape for the 704 children.