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Pioneering outdoor primary school by Wimshurst Pelleriti EDUCATION
What’s claimed to be the fi rst primary school in the UK designed to operate outside all year round has been completed in Morden, south London, by architects Wimhurst Pelleriti. Liberty Woodland School in Morden, south London, opened in late 2021, while building work was still underway. The school offers “pioneering nature-based learning” and teaches environmentalism as a core subject. It aims to “reinterpret the way the next generation learns and understands their role in protecting the natural world.” Wimshurst Pelleriti worked in collaboration with the school’s founder, Leanna Barrett, and landscape designer Dan Pearson, to create a “transformational learning environment” in the grounds of the Grade II listed Morden Lodge. The project also includes what is thought to be the fi rst use of a ground source heat pump at a UK education facility, installed by ISO Energy into the River Wandle which runs through the site. The school’s grounds accommodate multi-purpose structures which have been adapted into “indoor and outdoor” learning spaces. They include a two storey artists residence within a 19th century stable block, a pottery studio, an outdoor gallery
to exhibit children’s work, a greenhouse, potting shed, artist’s atelier, animal housing, a tool/woodcraft workshop, and science lab, as well as both indoor and outdoor “classrooms” for project work, music and playing. The design team “retained and enhanced” the existing structures and landscape, as well as introducing new “light touch” elements. The architects commented: “We minimised changes to the listed fabric, respecting existing trees and implementing reversible additions such as boardwalks and light timber structures.”
Throughout the design, attention was also paid to minimising the raw materials required for each building and “streamlining the structures to achieve maximum effi ciency, while also reducing offcut waste by only employing off the shelf lengths and widths.”
The material palette comprises sustainably sourced douglas fi r timber, weathered corten steel and polycarbonate roofs and verandas, “refl ecting the agricultural history of the site as an orchard, and blending into the simple aesthetic of the outbuildings that surround the listed lodge.”
CLT Scott Brownrigg school completes in Aberdeen EDUCATION
Construction of the £16m, Scott Brownrigg-designed Milltimber Primary School in Aberdeen has completed. Designed for Aberdeen City Council, the new facility offers increased capacity for 434 pupils and an additional 60 early learning and childcare (ELC) places, ensuring that pupils in the growing catchment area can continue to attend their local primary school with other children from their community. The design is conceived around “strong sustainable and placemaking principles,” said the architects. It includes a cross- laminated timber structure which was “chosen for its aesthetic, durability, and
sustainability credentials.”
Four teaching pavilions are arranged to provide classrooms with “safe, direct access to the outdoors,” while the reception and assembly hall form a “formal frontage to the public-facing side
of the school”. Enhanced outdoor play spaces and PE facilities “promote health, fi tness and wellbeing, and improved opportunities for outdoor curricular learning and social interaction,” Scott Brownrigg added.
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