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BDP
Neilston Learning Campus
The brief was to co-locate Neilston Primary School and St Thomas’s Primary School onto the site of the existing Neilston Primary School to create a joint campus. The land available to develop was topographically challenging, next to a railway line and awkward in form. These challenges also offered great opportunity to develop a high-quality design that embraces its location and invites community in.
Neilston Learning Campus has a variety of spaces to support different learning styles and encourage collaboration and communication. The spaces are well organised and aesthetically pleasing to reduce cognitive overload and make users feel at ease.
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Holmes Miller
Kirkliston Primary Early Learning and Childcare
Kirkliston Primary Early Learning and Childcare provides an annex to the existing Kirkliston Primary School, with a focus on early year learning. Incorporating two 50/50 Nurseries and four Primary 1 Classrooms the annex is designed to promote outdoor and play-based learning through open plan shared spaces, covered outdoor areas and nature-based external playgrounds. The building is organised into two wings, one nursery and one Primary 1, which link through a shared dining space and main entrance. Sustainability was a key requirement with the building being built to PassivHaus principles and constructed in CLT to limit embodied carbon.
