Seminars
Delegates should choose two of the following seminars. The sessions will be run in the morning and afternoon. Please indicate your favoured option on the booking form. We will endeavour to meet your requirements but cannot guarantee first choices. Thank you.
Seminar 1
Lilian Baylis Technology School
Gary Phillips (H)
The bold design of this 600 place flagship technology secondary school heralded a fresh start for the staff and pupils of Lilian Baylis. Gone are the narrow corridors and cramped classrooms. The new school is open, tall and bright with three-tier atriums and the flexibility for the building to evolve and adapt over time along with new styles of teaching and learning.
Beyond Cells and Bells: New Paradigms for American Schools
Paul Hutton, Hutton Architecture Studio, USA (A)
The American school building was traditionally composed of a large number of nearly identical classrooms and operated under a highly regulated schedule. Despite various attempts to re-formulate this approach, the model still persists as the dominant school design. Paul Hutton examines the new forces beginning to re-shape American schools such as global competition, parental/student choice and sustainability.
Chair: Peter Owen, Willmott Dixon (C)
Seminar 2
From Chicago to The Caymans
Kerry Leonard, Rick Dewar and Trung Le OWP/P Architects, USA (A)
OWP/P has a rich history of designing schools in Chicago and Illinois and are even taking their inspirational designs to The Cayman Islands. They see their role as understanding what environmental characteristics support a collaborative approach to schooling. That is where learning occurs, and where communities, local and global, are built.
Queen Elizabeth School, Dorset
Andy Puttock (H)
This is a new school for the BSF One School Pathfinder programme. The ambition has been to provide faculty buildings that are a step towards University, helped by adopting a Campus approach already evident in the existing buildings on site. The faculties have their own individual identities, each incorporating separate buildings arranged around the Quad at the heart of the scheme. This space is perceived as a vibrant gathering space, over two levels incorporating spaces for performance, social gathering, circulation, interaction and learning.
Chair: Andrew Siddall, Civic Architects (A)
Seminar 3
Whitecross High School, Herefordshire
John Jenkins, Haverstock Associates (A)
This 900 place Specialist Sports College was tested by BRE and has been proven to be the lowest energy school in the country with the best internal comfort levels. Consultation with pupils, staff and governors, started at the bid process, generated clear direction and informed and encouraged inclusion and ownership from the users at the outset of the design process.
Found Learning - Exploration of learning in the spaces between formal teaching environments
Tim Dufault Cuningham Group, USA (A)
The hallway has historically been treated as a means of facilitating movement, a utilitarian system part of a building’s gross area. We now understand that the practical application of classroom concepts happens in this and other "in-between" spaces, elevating them to the level of a learning environment. This discussion will look at the impact this has on learning.
Bexhill High School, East Sussex
Mike Conn (H) + Darius Umriga Devereux Architects (A)
The exciting design for this BSF single pathfinder due to open in 2010 is truly transformational. A review of the learning needs of students by the school community and the nature of the learning day resulted in a move to a projected base, investigative approach to the delivery of teaching across a three session day. Fully integrated ICT learning zones were then designed to support learning groups where young people could be in the same learning space for up to two thirds of the day
Chair: Rachel Jones, Steljes
Seminar 4
Marysville Getchell High School, USA
John Bingham + Gail Miller, Marysville School District, Craig Mason (A)
Four Small Learning Communities with their own principal, admin, library and resource areas cluster around a central community space which unites functions shared by the whole school. This truly flexible school with no hallways and a focus on personalisation ensures every space serves a learning function.
The Elmgreen School
Asma Mansuri (H) + Michael Olliff, Scott Brownrigg (A)
The innovative design of the first parent promoted school has been developed with the library at its heart. This overlooks a large central marketplace surrounded by the main hall, activities studio and restaurant. Curriculum areas are carefully clustered together and will make full use of colour to ensure the school is easily navigable. There will be an external amphitheatre, dining terrace, environmental science gardens and hard and soft social spaces.
The School Works Approach
Sharon Wright, Creative Wit + Jeanette Royle and David Armstrong, Wirral MBC
Engaging young people, staff, parents and the wider community is now a vital part of any school building or refurbishment project. Sharon Wright, a BCSE Associate, has championed stakeholder engagement in school design and urban regeneration. Sharon is joined in this interactive workshop by Jeannette Royle and David Armstrong from Wirral MBC, who have first-hand experience of using the School Works Approach.
Chair: Sharon Wright, Creative Wit
Seminar 5
The Calhoun School NY, USA
Sylvia Smith, FX Fowle (A)
The Calhoun School project added four stories and a mezzanine level to the existing five-story 1973 concrete and travertine building, as well as filling in the building footprint, to add 31,000 square feet. The design focused on fluidity of circulation between the existing and new spaces. It is the first educational institution in New York City to build an eco-friendly Green Roof that is also functional for educational use.
John Madejski Academy, Reading
Stafford Critchlow, Wilkinson Eyre (A)
Based on their exemplar design, the architect has taken a kit-of-parts approach to the design of the Academy, separating generic teaching spaces from areas with more specialist technical requirements. These have been modified to suit the specific curriculum demands of the new Academy, which has a sports specialism, as well as the site context. Delivered a year earlier than is usual, this 1,150 place academy inspires and stimulates both the students and the community.
Chair: Alec Harris, Wates (C)
Seminar 6
Kunskapsskolan, Sweden
Kenneth Gärdestad (A)
These publicly funded but privately run schools revolve around personalised learning. Their colourful interiors are often open plan without corridors and with multi-functional circulation areas, private study booths, tables for group work and tutorials and social areas providing flexible accommodation. Kunskapsskolan is expanding its successful approach and has recently been given the go-ahead to sponsor Academies in the UK.
Larmenier & Sacred Heart Primary School
Anrdrzej Kuszell, Studio E (A)
Within a landlocked site with two 120 year old plane tress, a two storey spiral building responds to its environment, incorporating the Fibonacci "golden mean" as a symbol for its young community – the mathematics of nature within the structure of their building. Extensive consultation with staff, parents and pupils inspired designs that create a world for young inquisitive minds where the question "Why?" would be encouraged and never ignored.
Chair: Colin Campbell, Ecophon
Seminar 7
Threeways School, Bath
Nick Ruff B3 Architects (A)
A Centre of Excellence for special needs education, one of the most innovative aspects of the design is the provision of a Sensory Theatre. The theatre will provide an interactive digital environment that can be controlled by the pupils, including those with very limited motor skills. It will be one of the main spaces that encourage interaction between students from mainstream schools with those from Threeways.
Golden Lane Campus, Islington
Jayne Bird Nicholas Hare Architects (A) + Anne Corbett (H) + Mary Caven (H)
The campus brings together SEN and primary schools as well as a surestart centre to create a modern inclusive school. The design, on a tight urban site, allows for maximum interaction between the different components while maintaining the sense of identity of each. It features private outdoor sensorial playground and green roofs, with external roof top sports MUGA and roof top playground and landscaping.
Are school spaces becoming more like H.E. spaces?
Mark Vander Voort and Terry Hajduk, Ryder HKS (A)
Firm believers that space drives behaviors and behaviors need to change for our society to realise its learning goals, Terry and Mark will compare how higher education facilities design can influence schools. With more school campuses being built, what lessons can be learnt from H.E where, particularly informal spaces for learning, collaboration and socialisation are critical components of scheduled and unscheduled campus spaces?
Chair: David Long, Davis Langdon
Seminar 8
Hazelwood School, Glasgow
Alan Dunlop, Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects (A)
The recent winner of a Civic Trust Award, this school for dual sensory impaired pupils ranging from 2-18 is conceived as a natural free flowing form, which `meanders´ gracefully through the site respecting its existing landscape of mature lime and beech trees. Innovative sensory clues throughout the design help the children orient themselves within the school environment.
Bristol Brunel Academy, Bristol
David Carter, Executive Principal (H)
The eagerly awaited first school to be completed under BSF has been designed to be as eco-friendly as possible providing an opportunity for students to learn about green technology. Each of the three floors and lower ground floor has a wide ‘main street’ with classrooms and administrative spaces at each side. Outstanding ICT facilities include a digital library of sounds and visuals, multi-media suites and TV and film-making facilities whilst the leisure pod houses a dance studio and fitness suite.
Chair: Terry Mitchell, Interserve (C)
Key:
(C) - Constructor
(H) - Headteacher
(A) - Architect