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Bedales School Art and Design

Bedales School Art and Design
© Matthew Rice

BEDALES SCHOOL ART AND DESIGN

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
Silcock Dawson & Partners Ltd

CONTRACTOR
E W Beard Construction

COST CONSULTANT
Stace LLP

MANUFACTURERS
Gutmann, Troldtekt, Coleford Brick & Tile, Euroclad, VELUX Group, Velfac, Bellsure, British Gypsum, Mixed Tudor Red, Rough sawn Siberian Larch

CLIENT
Bedales School

QUANTITY SURVEYOR/COST CONSULTANT
Stace LLP

ACOUSTIC ENGINEERS
Arup

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Big Yellow Group PLC

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Stace LLP

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS
Silcock Dawson & Partners Ltd

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Andrews Newby

ENVIRONMENTAL/M&E ENGINEERS
Silcock Dawson & Partners Ltd

PLANNING
Quod

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hufton + Crow, Matthew Rice

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Petersfield, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Schools

Text description provided by the architects.

Bedales School is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the edge of the South Downs National Park in the village of Steep near Petersfield.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow

Constructed around a substantial and beautiful oak tree within a new court and central lawn the new Art and Design building has a strong sense of place.

The design of the building draws references from traditional agricultural buildings with clipped gables and simple standing-seam metal roofs, defining a series of connected barn forms.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow

Materials were used in their natural state throughout a lattice timber screen shelters the entrance canopy and external walkway creating a welcoming gesture on approach to the building.

The layout on the upper floor is a series of carefully scaled open and interconnected north-lit art studios that enable teaching and independent study for a wide range of group sizes and activities.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow

On the ground floor heavier duty craft-based design subjects are taught alongside jewelry and fashion design.

A connection to the outdoors characterizes much of Bedales life, and consequently, all circulation is external, across covered decks on both sides of the building that double as places to draw, paint, sculpt or just relax and contemplate the environment.

SUSTAINABILITY

Through passive building principles, the new Art and Design building retains the school’s long and close connection to the countryside.

The form and east-west orientation of the five pitched roofs of the new Art and Design building define a series of carefully scaled, north-lit studio spaces within. This maximizes natural daylighting and reduces the need for artificial lighting.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Matthew Rice

In what is otherwise a lightweight building the thermal mass of exposed concrete surfaces contributes to a more stable internal temperature.

Timber-slatted screens and the retained large oak tree both provide solar shading in the summer months. 

Renewable natural materials, including sustainably sourced timber for cladding and wood fiber acoustic panels, reduce the embodied carbon in the construction.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow

CONTEXT

Since its foundation by John Badley in 1893, creative arts education has been at the heart of this liberal and alternative independent school, within the South Downs National Park, in Hampshire.

The new Art & Design building sits in the shadow of a 300-year-old oak tree, alongside a range of old barns in which ‘outdoor work’ is taught and students bake bread each week.

Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow


Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Matthew Rice
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow


Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow
Bedales School Art and Design
© Matthew Rice
Bedales School Art and Design
© Hufton + Crow


Bedales School Art and Design
Site Plan
Bedales School Art and Design
Ground Floor Plan
Bedales School Art and Design
First Floor Plan
Bedales School Art and Design
Roof Plan


Bedales School Art and Design
West and East Elevation
Bedales School Art and Design
North and South Elevations
Bedales School Art and Design
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