A residential care home in Kent has asked Studio Weave to create new arts, crafts, media and horticulture teaching facilities for people with long-term learning disabilities. The site is on the outskirts of Barham, a small village near Canterbury and sits across the boundary of a conservation area and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The key aims of the proposal are creating a cluster of buildings that provide for the complex needs of the Greenbanks staff and students, while also respecting the village grain, history, and natural beauty of this precious landscape. The design also needs to be phased due to incremental funding, and must be built causing minimum disruption. The project has looked to learn from open air schools, a movement in education architecture that prioritised connection to the landscape as conducive to learning and health. We have therefore proposed four buildings that sit like a cluster of farm buildings or a hamlet. A key challenge has been nestling the buildings into this sloping site in a way that makes the landscape accessible to those with mobility challenges, without overly urbanising the quality of the green space. Throughout the design process we have sought to create opportunities for the students to be involved. We have held creative workshops with Greenbanks students and are looking at ways in which they can make their mark on the final buildings through woodwork, painting, and planting.