3D Visual Development

Stripey Buildings

Draft 3D Visuals

These are our fist visuals exploring what the school may look like. It is still a work in progress but you can see how we are playing with the form of classrooms, the central block and how we are trying to create covered areas. We are also trying to introduce as much colour as possible to provide a stimulating learning environment.

Landscape Design

School Plan

Updated school plan with the halls in the centre of the school.

Design Development - Moving the Hall

After a further design review we have decided to move the main halls from the end of the school into the centre. The reasons for moving the halls are as follows-

• Enlarges the central courtyard and allows more room around the willow tree
• Creates a large shared space at the heart of the school
• Allows the halls to open into each other creating a single large hall for special occasion

The new site concept and site zoning.

Key

Yellow - Teaching

Red - Hall

Purple - Shared teaching and admin

Blue - Playground

Light green - Sport pitches

Dark Green - Soft landscaped areas

Orange - Public square

Grey - Car park

Design concept diagram

Landscape Ideas

Design Development

Site Plan


Plan Option A - Seperate secondary hall


Plan Option B - Combined main and secondary halls

Initial Design Options

Option One - Fingers


Option Two - Wedge

School Organisational Diagram

Site Response

Site Zoning


School Zoning

Site Analysis

Historical Context
This historial map is from 1947 and shows how much of the area was still farm land 60 years ago.


Environmental Analysis
This diagram shows the sunpath accross the site, the prevailing winds (the light blue arrows)the main views from the school, and the noise from the road (red arrows)


Transport - Pedestrian Routes


Transport - Vericular Routes


Transport - Bus Routes


Transport - Cycle Routes


Tree Servey
The dark green blobs on this diagram indicate the protected trees on the site

Kingfisher school Visit

School Design Day 16 june 2009

On the 16th of June ADP held a school design day, several members of the deisgn team visiting the school and encouraged the puplis and staff to think about what their new school could look like. They were all asked to think about the one thing they liked about their existing school and what the one thing they would like to have in their new school.



Summary of the eight topics considered by the children

• Colour- Use of colour in the school

- Bright colours
- Feature walls
- Furniture
- Oak flooring to represent the school name
- WCs
- Staff rooms



• Classrooms- design, inside and outside, technology

- Colour
- Large windows
- Outdoor classrooms
- IT spaces
- Wet areas

• Outdoor hard play areas Markings, covered areas, equipment, shade

- sports pitches
- outdoor theatre
- canopies and covered areas
- patterns and colour
- climbing wall and frames

• Soft landscape and playing fields- gardens pitches, trails, growing areas, learning areas- ponds
- pond
- trails
- habitat areas
- allotment areas
- forest school



• Dining rooms- eating areas, decoration, queuing, lunch box storage, outside eating areas.

- Smaller tables of 6 to 8
- colour
- lighting
- furniture: soft seating, eating pods
- colourful dinner trays, plates and cutlery
- water dispenser
- healthy eating

• Social spaces corridors, places to meet, cloakrooms, seating- no bullying

- Somewhere to be alone, somewhere to work in a group
- IT spaces
- Theatre spaces
- Games room
- Pods – computer work (group and individual)
- Playful internal street, pull out soft seating
- Colourful street, shapes

• Sustainability- recycling, plants , wildlife, energy sources

- Recycling
- Wind power
- Solar power
- Recycled materials on the building

• Community use- after school facilities, entrance hall

- Sports area: gym, clubs, sports tracks, boxing, swimming pool
- Café and food: learn about food, cooking, a place to come eat and drink with the family
- Allotments: for families with no gardens, also associated to the food area
- Games room
- IT / Media
- Cinema for Saturdays
- Drama

Introduction to the Oakwood Primary School Project

In June 2009, ADP architects were commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council to replace two existing Cheltenham school: Lynworth Primary School and Whaddon Primary School with a new building on the Lynworth school site. Gloucestershire County Council and the two schools had acknowledged that due to the falling numbers of pupils in the area, the need and the ability to run two primary schools was becoming unsustainable.

ADP have been commissioned to work with the schools to establish the following:

- To understand the ethos of the two schools and the relationship with its community.
- To establish any special facilities that the existing schools offer to its staff, pupils, parents and its community.
- To review the existing schools site and building stock against the DfES guidelines for primary schools of the future and Gloucestershire County Council guidelines for their own primary school development plan.
- To establish what a primary school of the future would need to be to support this area and through the potential federation of the two schools.



Arial view of both school sites