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Dorset
£0.5m to £0.99M
New Build
Cramped Victorian school in low-lying West Dorset village. Narrow classrooms and high Victorian cills mean difficult teaching spaces and poor internal/external relationships. Elevated views into site from surrounding hills. Extension decants teaching spaces into new structures and frees up the old for introverted uses such as computing and quiet areas. The scheme comprises two structures linked to the school via a sheltered walkway. The first, closest to the school and containing two classrooms, is located immediately behind a reconstructed stone boundary wall. It has a simple, metal, lean-to roof echoing nearby outbuildings and, from the village side is concealed by the stone wall. The second structure sits further down into the landscape and has a planted sedum roof to make it almost invisible form the landscape beyond. Both structures, intrinsically linked to the landscape through heavily glazed facades, have large roof overhangs to create sheltered shaded activity spaces.