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Design Engine’s scheme for new building at Stowe School in for planning


Architects Design Engine’s scheme for a new design technology & engineering building at Stowe School has been submitted for planning consent. Following a design competition in 2016, Design Engine were commissioned to develop designs for the new building to replace existing facilities at the leading independent school. The new building will serve as the


“creative hub” to introduce pupils to modern design and manufacturing skills and sit alongside and support the other STEM subjects (science and mathematics). The initial stages of the project involved


an “in-depth analysis of the campus as a whole in order to explore all options for the location of the new facility,” said


Design Engine. The brief asked for a new stand-alone building that would replace outdated facilities, and house workshops that would “embrace developing thinking in all areas of design, technology and engineering.” The proposed two-storey building is sited within woodland, to “minimise visual impact and to ensure logical adjacencies with other faculties.” The materiality of the building helps the


building relate to its historic architectural and landscape context, said the architects. Stowe School also wanted to explore how the building could work as “an educational tool, expressing how different materials are employed in contemporary architecture.” To assist with the proportions of the


building and its “sense of repose in the landscape,” Design Engine have introduced a “horizontal split in the elevation. establishing a low level and high-level material.” This will “reduce the overall visual mass of the elevations within the woodland,” said the architects. The proposed bronze-coloured material


for the upper level will tonally complement the woodland setting but will also maintain a low sheen and reflection, said Design Engine. They added that the brickwork’s colour and texture is intended to have “parity” with adjacent brick buildings. The building will “play a central role in


ensuring the continuing success of Stowe School as an outstanding centre for product design and robotics in the UK.”


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