Scottish Pre-school building - Architecture

Flora Stevenson Nursery for City of Edinburgh Council

City Nursery, Edinburgh




Flora Stevenson extension
The City of Edinburgh Council is due to construct a £1.5m extension to Flora Stevenson Primary School, Edinburgh in 2007

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Flora Stevenson Broughton, Edinburgh, Scotland

City Nursery, Edinburgh Flora Stevensons Nursery, Broughton

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The City of Edinburgh Council obtained special funding to provide a new nursery school within the grounds of the existing stone-built Victorian primary school. The brief was to provide two classrooms for 30 children each, together with a parents / general purpose room for use for, amongst other things, ‘wraparound’ care.
Flora Stevenson Nursery Arcade Architects, Edinburgh Flora Stevenson

Part of the teaching philosophy that the children move freely between inside and outside and so the Nursery classrooms need a close relationship to the playground. This underpins the main design moves at Flora Stevensons which focus on the teaching spaces.

Flora Stevenson Nursery Edinburgh Nursery School Broughton

The Nursery classrooms are triangular in plan, echoed in cross section by a monopitch roof, with their long edge designed to form a permeable screen oriented to the south west, creating a close child-scale relationship with the sunny playground outside.

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Flora Stevenson Nursery - Address: Comely Bank, Edinburgh, EH4 1BG