Cullinan Studio Design for Schools
We design great schools We are Cullinan Studio, experts in design for Education. Inspiring learning in young minds is our passion. An award-winning practice based in London, we are dedicated to creating places that are radically innovative and holistically sustainable. Proof of this is best demonstrated by our 45 years of successful built projects, which span whole-city masterplans to individual homes both in the UK and abroad. Our education design portfolio includes Secondary, Primary and University level learning spaces, including emerging models for all-through schools, free schools and child-centred learning environments. Having worked across both the state and independent sectors, we understand that the financial challenge to create exceptional places to learn is ever more pertinent for Headteachers and Local Authorities. Cullinan Studio has the talent, knowledge and technical ability to offer our school clients a full range of services to provide the best value design available. As recognised leaders in sustainable design, our proposals can reduce your school’s energy consumption and create healthy environments for learning and teaching. We have the skills and experience to facilitate effective briefing workshops and thereby enable smart decision making to get the maximum effect from limited funds. The key is working closely with the school and the community to understand their most important aspirations. This booklet illustrates some of our most recent school projects. We hope you find it intriguing, and we would be happy to meet with you to discuss any plans your school may have for improving its learning environment.
Rosendale Primary School West Dulwich London
This project is a sensitive refurbishment of a typical Victorian London Board School. Like many schools of this era the classrooms suffer from poor layout, visual clutter and discomfort in hot and cold weather. Our proposal creates discretely designed additional storage and a focal childrens’ reading corner in each room. Solar shading is provided by a new external timber pergola and high performance roof lights increase each classroom’s natural daylight levels.
high level ventilaton reinstated restoration of listed heritage features new solar shading
domestic scale details
Shenley Academy Birmingham
Shenley Academy and sixth form centre is a new-build school for 1,150 eleven to eighteen year olds. We have worked hard with client and contractor to turn the complex brief into a strong clear layout with classrooms clustered around six learning centres and a new theatre and sports hall flanking external courts to the south. These larger facilities have been carefully located to encourage out-of-hours use by the local community. The large scale windows give views over the landscaped grounds, allow natural light into the classrooms and work with the cladding panels and brickwork to form a striking building facade.
Torriano Junior School Camden London
This elegant building houses the school’s vibrant range of musical and theatrical pursuits in a new first floor hall. The gatehouse’s distinctive roof is designed to reduce energy consumption by aiding natural ventilation and the hall space can be divided into two separate rooms if required. Robust and traditional external materials marry well with the surrounding context and the location of the building on the site’s boundary means it creates a real sense of arrival into the school.
Forest Gate Community School Newham London new sports hall above entrance
classrooms reconnected with central learning area
new entrance building facing the main street
new business enterprise suite on ground floor
We worked in close collaboration with the client and contractor in this BSF project to transform the existing school’s confusing layout and outdated facilities into a clear sequence of enjoyable and coherent new spaces. The design allies new facilities including a four court sports hall, reception area, enterprise cafÊ and conference suite with improvements to the retained school building to meet current standards. The school colours of green and gold are used as a palette for the cladding of the new entrance building and a number of new internal elements.
Millennium Primary School Greenwich Peninsula London
Greenwich is a new-build two form primary school for 420 pupils which was conceived as one part of a mixed use scheme, the other being a new health centre. The interior of the school features a series of distinctive coloured ‘drums’ which contain light wells and group learning spaces adjacent to individual classrooms. The building looks over beautifully landscaped grounds and is designed be heated and cooled by passive means, cutting down on energy use. nursery with rooftop play
primary school
health centre
school hall
Prefabricated Primary School Solutions
We are currently developing designs for a new type of primary school, one that aims to minimise costs while making elegant, flexible spaces for teaching. In collaboration with leading structural and environmental engineers we have developed a proposal that is compact, energy efficient, easily constructed and in line with stringent government cost targets. The prefabricated timber design features a main hall which can be used by the local community, shared teaching rooms and areas for sheltered external play.
Proposed new primary school using the innovative pre-fabricated timber design in Swindon.
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Extensively remodelling of Brampton Manor secondary school, London Borough of Newham Design for Eleanor Smith All-through school in the London Borough of Newham for pupils with emotional behavioural and social difficulties Design for the new Bridge Academy in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Design for the remodelling and extension of Sacred Heart High School in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Masterplan for St John’s College School in Cambridge The design for Delius SEN School in Bradford Design for the extension and remodelling of Southwark Primary School in London New Music Centre (pictured) and Masterplan for Purcell School in Hertfordshire Design for a new Technical College in Lagny, France Farnborough Grange Primary School in Hampshire Refurbishment of Crookham Junior school in Hampshire Refurbishment of Calthorpe Park Middle School in Hampshire
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