Southwark Park Primary School
This much loved Grade II listed Victorian school is to be extensively re-furbished with the addition of playful new pavilions housing a nursery and library, and a new landscape which knits the contrasting architecture into a whole.
The education stages are arranged to create a simple progression from the Nursery at the western end of the school through to the Junior school adjacent to Southwark Park Road.
The landscape is a single seamless resin-bound surface which folds up to form enclosed seating areas adjacent to the indoor classrooms, and includes a sunken ball-court, a timber amphitheatre and a planted wildlife screen which separates the nursery play area from the rest of the school.
I was the project lead from the early design stages, through the planning application and until the project was put on hold due to funding issues.
Whilst at Farrer Huxley Associates - Phase 1 completed 2010 - Southwark, London - Client: London Borough of Southwark - Size: 1ha - Value: £600k - Architect: Birds Portchmouth Russum