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Left The barista bar’s inventive panelling reinforces the importance of learning and educational exploration


PROJECT 2


King Edward VI, Southampton


For this new Sixth Form area, Resonate Interiors use a formal environment with thoughtful personalised touches to provide an enlivening and professional space for students


WORDS BY EMILY MARTIN


IMAGES BY PHILIP VILE


INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO Resonate has completed its fabulous design for a new Sixth Form at a Southampton school. King Edward VI approached Resonate to discuss how they could create an inspiring, fun, modern and flexible space that would encourage social and academic interaction in a positive way for its students. The studio’s design was selected, out of a number of other design practices, by members of the school, Governors and students themselves, which has transformed the learning environment.


Working with the stakeholder groups, which included both students and teachers, Resonate developed the concept around the ‘Tree of Learning’ into a space that would fully maximise natural daylight, provide a variety of study spaces from quiet to collaborative and an all-important barista coffee bar – a prerequisite from the students. From the outset, the school was very clear in its aim to create a modern multi-functional, student desirable space and adaptable Sixth Form area that would be closer to a higher education/collaborative working space than a school. It had to feel dramatically different from the rest of the school, and somewhere that pupils would aspire to be a part of one day.


The unsightly existing structural columns are clad in a natural oak finish, which embody the Tree of Learning concept, that rises gently over the double height space. The existing roof light floods the space with light bouncing off the neutral colour palette which features pops of green – a nod to nature.


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