2017 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Medbury School New Teaching Block
This two-storey, four-classroom teaching block, a key stage in the campus master plan, sets up a new rational architectural language within a sensitively observed context of greatly varied architectural stock. The new block creates flexible learning spaces for the school, based on current modern learning environment principles, with an emphasis on adaptability over time. A strong rhythm of vertical sun-screening fins on the east and west-facing façades give good solar shading, and also provides a more formal quality to reflect the verticality and scale of the site’s surrounding mature trees. A green wall on the north-facing elevation will continue to grow up training wires. Large sliding doors open from the shared learning space to a west courtyard which has been created as an outdoor learning space.
- Practice
- Sheppard & Rout Architects Ltd
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
