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Edinburgh Academy Junior School Nursery and After School Building

  • Date: 2009
  • Architect: Richard Murphy Architects
  • Client: Edinburgh Academy
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Sector: Education
  • Value: £1.8 million

Edinburgh Academy have commissioned Create as Civil/Structural Engineers to design a new nursery and after school facility within the grounds of the existing Junior School. The project completion as due in Spring 2009.

The nursery is arranged entirely on the ground floor and the main teaching accommodation is in three linked rooms, one of which, for the two to three year old group, is capable of sub-division. Each of these rooms gives onto landscaped play terraces and also has external covered space and internal bay window spaces. In the centre of the plan are all the necessary services and storage and on the entrance elevation is a large cloakroom arrival point for distributing the children to the different classrooms.

 

The After School facilities for older children are also to be relocated to the first floor above the new nursery school and these consist of a series of linked rooms for group and individual activities. A floating cranked steel roof structure covers the whole building with a line of roof light illuminating the circulation in the middle of the plan.