Great Oldbury Primary Academy
- Client
- Gloucestershire County Council
- Location
- Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
- Project Leaders
- Mike Court
- Value
- 5M
Challenge
Quattro is the Education Architect of choice to design a brand new 1.5FE primary school and nursery provision with potential for expansion to 2FE in Stonehouse. The S106 funded school is part of the major Great Oldbury mixed use scheme set to provide approximately 1,300 homes as well as a new health centre, local shop and sports facility.
Located in a beautiful countryside setting within close proximity to the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this new school design needs to respond to the rural setting and the wider Great Oldbury housing development which exhibits traditional exterior features.
The opening of the building will take a phased approach to allow the Early Years, Foundation Stage and Year 1 pupils to attend in the first instance, eventually allowing 420 students from ages 2-11 to join at a later date.
- Services
- Partners
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Robert Hitchins
3D Fly Through Preview
Whilst our Education Architects are hard at work designing this state-of-the-art, sustainable, striking and technically strong school, our Visualisation Team has created a preview. We hope you enjoy a “tour” of our responsive design for Great Oldbury Primary Academy within this rural and idyllic setting.
Gallery
Solution
Quattro has taken a fabric first approach designing an attractive, functional and highly sustainable scheme that exceeds building regulations. Passive design strategies such as, natural ventilation and night cooling, as well as natural daylight, have been maximised to ensure the smallest carbon footprint possible for the school.
The stunning educational environment offers a contemporary take on the vernacular ‘barn in the rural landscape’. With its stunning setting the school offers a wonderful legacy for the children of Great Oldbury and the Gloucestershire Learning Alliance Trust. Applying our extensive Educational Architecture experience Quattro’s school building design is intended to achieve the Gloucestershire Learning Alliance Trust’s aims for the new provision to enable children to achieve their “full potential academically and personally and to be the very best that they can be.” A wonderful addition to this exciting new community.
Despite the current Covid-19 setbacks the scheme is on target for completion.
(The above GLA aim quote is credited to Claire Savory, Director of Academies at the Gloucestershire Learning Alliance)
Thank you for your work in obtaining the planning permission approval for the primary school at Great Oldbury. Your design and your leadership in controlling and co-ordinating the consultants are entirely responsible for the successful outcome of the planning process, for which I am very grateful.
Robert Hitchins, Cheltenham
From early on in the process all parties involved.. entered into a positive and constructive dialogue aimed at finding a 'landscape-led' solution. This willingness to work together and to share ideas and expertise was a hallmark of the project and central to its success.
Malvern Hills AONB Partnership
The approach taken by the team has led to a brilliant highly acclaimed design that more than meets our requirements and presents excellent value for money.
Herefordshire Council
We're absolutely delighted with what's been achieved within the limitations of our compact site, which is certainly not without its logistical challenges! cont/...
Bourton-on-the-Water Primary Academy
...Together, we have built a positive environment around us that directly effects children’s attitudes and their ability to learn and explore ideas. Many thanks again to Quattro for providing us with the vision.
Bourton-on-the-Water Primary Academy