Workshop Annex

Laboratory

A very well ventilated room with long black marble-topped tables that have many drawers. Beakers, alembics, retorts, cucurbits, mortars, pestles, scales, odd spoons, leather gloves, masks and goggles, and a lot of old books fill shelves that line the walls. Large casement windows whose chief virtue is they can be opened quickly. Drains in the floor. Always has an acrid, chemical smell. First door on the left coming from the Main Building

Scriptorium

Also well lit, but with fixed windows and skylights. Rows of tall wood drafting tables with an odd variety of chairs suiting different heights and ergonomic habits. Stands a little like music stands, but built to hold heavy books. Sink in the back. Bookcases have glass doors that are kept locked. Wall scrolls with strange alphabets. Tools such as quills, brushes, ink bottles, sanders, compasses, etc kept in rigidly neat order. Large globe and hanging slate at the front. Smells like old paper. Oddly quiet room. First door on the right.

Woodshop

The usual assortment of woodworking tools. Weird little arrangements of stools and boxes and tables, whatever will suit one. Curls of wood shavings and fine sawdust on the floor. A large carving delineating various ways of maiming oneself with the tools in pictures hangs on one wall, along with pegs on which perhaps two dozen leather aprons hang. A jar of disposable beeswax earplugs stands next to boxes of gloves and goggles. On the other end of the room, a dozen different kinds of wood sit stacked as raw logs and branches. Finished and unfinished student projects are lined up under the windows. A wooden door leads to a spacious covered patio where larger projects are in progress. Smells lovely, of wood and smoke, but a very very loud place. Second door on the left.

Home Economics Room

The castle kitchens in miniature at one end of the long room, fiber arts at the other. In the middle, an odd assortment of vats with strong yet conflicting smells of dyes, fixatives, and fermentation. The summary of the Home Ec room is that it is a room at war with itself. Leatherworking space ekes out a corner away from the looms, and nobody knows which kettles are for brewing and which for stewing. This room fits its students like a too tight shell on a hermit crab and it shows in the chaos. Second and third door on the right.

Metalshop

A room much hotter on one end than the other. Forges, anvils, and heavy hammers in the hot end, fiddly crucibles and lenses and minute tools at tables (with chairs) at the other. Coal and iron and copper and tin kept in piles. Fine metals and jewels kept under arcane lock and key. Everything very durable and much blackened. Student pieces displayed on the walls. Smells of sulfur. Third and fourth door on the left.

Glass Studio

A little like the Metalshop but more orderly. A nice linear flow from furnace to annealer to bench duplicated perhaps a dozen times. Stained glass windows depict various scenes around the school - student work. Also a very hot place, but smells a little of wax as much as anything else. Fourth door on the right.

Art Studio

Well lit space with easels, potters' wheels, many cupboards, and deep sinks with pumps. The kilns share a wall with the metalshop and glass studio, baking the room slightly. A curtain can be drawn across the space to hide these and the storage areas and create a place to display student artwork. A very colorful room that smells of turpentine. Double doors at the end.

Purpose / Function

Specialized educational spaces for non-magical, practical arts and crafts. (If it's a tool proficiency, chances are good it's taught here.)

Architecture

Practical and purpose-built brickwork balancing thrift with durability. Separate septic system from the rest of the campus. Connected to the Main Building by a covered walkway that extends into a hallway with three large workshops on each side and the Art Studio on the end. There are multiple metal fire doors in the hall.

Type

Workshop

Parent Location

Hilltop Preparatory Academy