Projects
Education
Our multi-disciplinary team provides a one -stop service designing new schools and adapting existing ones.We work with the whole school community on strategies for the future aiming to create a stimulating environment that encourages learning. Our buildings:
* provide uplifting spaces
* are effective in use
* represent value for money
* are environmentally sustainable
* are easy to maintain
Kingsway Primary School
This is a two-form entry primary school for a new village community on the outskirts of Gloucester. It was procured for Gloucestershire County Council through a 106 agreement, delivered by developer QUVL.
Quattro’s vision for Kingsway was to design a building that created a sense of place; that reflected the spirit of the former RAF site on which it is buil...
ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL, CHELTENHAM
St Edward's Independent School, Cheltenham is a co-educational catholic based foundation school with around 500 pupils.
St Edward's Refectory and Drama Studio was officially opened in October. Quattro completed a new 2 storey building containing a refectory, kitchen, geography classrooms and drama studio. The building design is a response to the listed ...
Mickleton Primary School
Recently completed for the autumn term 2006, this school is a new 4 classroom primary school and nursery on a greenfield site at the edge of a Cotswold village. Due to its location and the requirement for a traditional appearance, the design was loosely based on the vernacular form of farm buildings with the larger mass of the hall and its adjacent administrative fac...
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Coney Hill Primary School and Family Centre
Operational from the 12th September 2005, the new primary school comprises 6 classrooms, plus a reception classroom, a hall, a kitchen, several group rooms, a library and administration and staff areas. Particularly notable are the external play area that features tensile fabric covered timber structures attached to each classroom and the use of detail internally and...
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Hope Brook Primary School
A new 4 classroom Primary School amalgamating 2 Victorian schools in close proximity. It comprises a lettable hall combined with administration functions on the south of the rural site with classrooms and library to the north. Sustainable features include natural ventilation, sunpipes, waterless urinals and sustainable urban drainage. The distinctive appearance res...
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WILLOWS SCHOOL, WEST BERKSHIRE
Situated in Greenham, Newbury, this school was built in the 1970s and was substantially below the standards set out in BB99, both for space and facilities. Quattro Design worked closely with the staff to address these deficiencies, providing a range of consultancy services to facilitate substantial re-modelling of several of the existing classrooms and the supporting...
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Leckhampton Primary School
Alterations and extensions to an Edwardian Primary School in Cheltenham comprising a new music/drama room, library, disabled WCs and a remodeled entrance. The new buildings complete the fourth side of a quadrangle formed by the original buildings together with a range of recently added classrooms. Visually the render and slate roofed extension unites the various dis...
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Learning Resource Centre, Severn Vale School
The brief called for a flexible space, a place of learning and a social area for the school, also providing a careers area, a conference room and support developments on workforce reform. The design concept was for a series of interlinked spaces beneath a range of monopitch roofs incorporating large north lights, to ensure good levels of natural light and cooling int...
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City College Women's Academy
With the opening of the new City College Women's Academy (Saltley, Birmingham) in January 2005, 200 women students have been given a first class learning environment in an existing modern building design. The college is on the upper 2 floors of the 3 storey building providing classrooms, computer suites, resource rooms, training kitchen with dining and recreational f...
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Conservation Education Centre for Bristol Zoo
Quattro’s delightful but inexpensive conservation education centre for Bristol Zoo Gardens is acknowledged as one of the greenest buildings in the city. The two storey conservation education centre was built to a low budget and provides classrooms, animal rooms, administration and research areas.
The highly insulated building is provided with high density ...
Limetree CHILDREN'S CENTRE, BIRMINGHAM
Part of Birmingham City Council’s Sure Start Children’s Centre programme, this new building, completed in Sept’06, is in the grounds of a special needs school and the nursery is an integrated provision for all children. As the name suggests a lime tree is at the heart of the centre and the single storey elements have been carefully wrapped around and between the exist...
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Tree Tops Children's Centre
Tree Tops Children's Centre is located on the site of Birchen Coppice First and Middle School, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It was built under the Sure Start building programme and provides integrated pre-school child care, education, family support and healthcare in a single building. The Children's Centres programme provides key support in establishing a 'sure st...
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Lakeside Children's and Family Centre
Years of effort by clients, community and consultants have finally paid off with the completion of the new Children's and Family Learning Centre in Wyrley Birch, Birmingham.
It is the final project to be funded through the SRB5 Opportunities for Life and learning led by South Birmingham PCT and it is also part of the Children's Centres initiative led by Bi...
Doddington Green Children Centre, Birmingham
On the site of demolished flats, this modern building sits easily in a residential street on a suburban estate. The scale of the building is broken down by dormer roofs punctuating the roofline and the use of a variety of materials. The discreet use of colour on windows and around the main entrance highlight the building's community nature and make it a welcoming pla...
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