 | | | Flora Stevenson’s Nursery School, Edinburgh, for The City of Edinburgh Council | ||||||||||||||
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 | The City of Edinburgh Council obtained special funding to provide a new nursery school within the grounds of the existing stone-built Victorian primary school. The brief was to provide two classrooms for 30 children each, together with a parents / general purpose room for use for, amongst other things, ‘wraparound’ care. Part of the teaching philosophy that the children move freely between inside and outside and so the classrooms need a close relationship to the playground. This underpins the main design moves which focus on the teaching spaces. The classrooms are triangular in plan, echoed in cross section by a monopitch roof, with their long edge designed to form a permeable screen oriented to the south west, creating a close child-scale relationship with the sunny playground outside. | ||||||||||||||||
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