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Primary School with Community Facilities

Part 1 Project 2006
Richard Bevan
Aishwarya Warrier
 Edinburgh College of Art | UK
The scheme, primarily focusing on the sustainable integration of a primary school within pre-existing urban and natural resources, includes a trainstation, skatepark, community café, hairdressers and hairdressing school. The project takes into account the regeneration of an existing brewery into community smallholdings and start-up businesses with the potential to provide income. A proposed 'piggy-back' pedestrian/cycle bridge provides subsequent extensions to these existing routes.


The impressive aspect of this project lies in its capacity to support an alternative approach to Craigmillar’s redefinition of itself by focusing on opportunities latent within the pre-existing geography of Craigmillar. Five strategic situations are identified for the location of primary schools. Richard’s school is on the edge of Craigmillar. The facilities are deployed in support of cross programming and to act as an interface with the community beyond. The site perimeter is secured by football terracing with market lots beneath. The focus is on education through sustainability and the manipulation of existing site resources.
Tutor(s)
2006
Initial, pre-design, pre-site utopic visions for ‘a day in the life of a child going to craigmillar.’
Primary school with community facilities. Craigmillar, Scotland
Plan view. Establishes new and existing relationships of the primary school to its surrounding urban and natural topography.
Massing and winter lighting study of immediate surrounding area.
Long Section : Community smallholdings, pedestrian and cycle bridge, trainstation, market lots/football terracing, skatepark, hairdressing school, primary school.
Various Elevations. To supplement the normal curriculum, pupils engage with the resources available within their grounds. The site itself becomes a source through which to learn through the actions of experience, exploration, and observation
Cut-away Sections
Cut-away Sections
Section through classroom and corridor space. North and South dedicated outside classroom facilities
Floor 0 Plan
1 : 200 Site Model. The site perimeter is secured by a hairdressers and hairdressing school, and football terracing with market lots beneath.
1 : 50 Sectional Model
View into central courtyard with reception area on left, and classrooms p4-7 on right
Each classroom has a unique relationship with the Burn, through the growing gardens
Exploded diagram; building, ground plane, community interventions, transport route extensions and new facilities.
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