THE ST GEORGE'S JUNIOR SCHOOL EXTENSION AND CAMPUS, EDINBURGH
for St George's School for Girls
St George’s Campus & Junior School : Extension Building PR + images 2006
St George's School for Girls architects : Reiach and Hall
Our new Junior School Extension and Early Years Centre for St George's School for Girls has just recently completed on site. Following on from the success of our new build dining and assembly building, the St George's Centre, the new project not only extends our original 1960's Junior School but includes new building to consolidate the nursery and offer multi-use, flexible Early Years teaching facilities and science spaces.
Reiach and Hall have worked with St George’s School for Girls for over a period of 40 years. Along with new build and extension/refurbishment projects our Development Masterplan, commissioned in the 1990’s, re-defined the school community and allowed the school to programme the re-structuring and new building works. By re-siting proposed new buildings to define the edge of the campus and address the spaces between we have created connections across the school campus. This has allowed a community and heart to emerge from the school making it a place of their own.
The St George’s School campus straddles 2 conservation areas and is a school rich in tradition and history. Relative to this conservative and historic context we wished to explore in the new junior school extension a contemporary and courageous solution.
Previously the junior school, literally, hid behind a hedge from the main school facing it. We elevated the new building, bridging the cantilevered new school over the existing junior school, to gesture a courageous expression. A brave and obvious connection is now made between the junior and the senior school. This represents the junior school to the whole school community in a more pronounced and extrovert way.
The classrooms are straightforward, appropriate, square rooms which face across and back to the main school. This orientation connects the junior school with the rest of the school, re-inforcing the community focus and collegiate nature of our development masterplan.
The upper floor cantilevers out across the entrance to the junior school forming a portal to the school itself. This cantilevered gable shifts and looks across and back to the castle and the hills and the city beyond. A new connection is made. The school looks to the city and the city and the hills are brought into the heart of the school. This room – the Future’s Room - is a multi-use assembly and studio space. The Futures Room is available for use by all the school and has an independent access. This sharing of spaces integrates the junior with the main school in a physical way and develops inclusive and strong connections within the whole school community.
Completion: Apr 2006
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St George’s Junior School Extension + Early Years Centre, Edinburgh:
Client
St. Georges School for Girls, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BG
Quantity Surveyor
Robertson and Dawson, 30 Spylaw St, Edinburgh EH13 0JT
Services Engineer
RSP Consulting Engineers, 25-27 Straiton Rd, Edinburgh EH20 9NL
Structural Engineer
SKM Anthony Hunts, Onesixty, 160 Dundee St, Edinburgh EH11 1DQ
Planning Supervisor
Reiach and Hall Architects
Main contractor
Mansell, 566 Queensferry Rd, Edinburgh, EH4 6AT
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St Georges School For Girls Project
Reiach And Hall Architects
New classroom and office accommodation
For St Georges School For Girls
Address: 2A Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 6BQ
Application received: 09/10/06
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 18/06/07
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