Milton Abbey School Woodland Centre

Milton Abbey School has a particularly strong reputaion within the vocational aspects on learning - one of which being its educational provision in the field of Woodland management and enggagement with the nnatural environment. With the ever-increasing importance of such aspects of both learning (and everyday life/concerns), the school sort to formalise this area of their educational offer via the introduction of a new 'woodland campus' on the border of the school paramaters. 

 

Currently housing a selection of somewhat ad hoc temporary structures and cabins, the design proposes a series of workshops and learning volumes set within the wooded landscape. The design challenge for RiB ARCHITECTURE being to introduce some fairly substantial structures within and mosdtly beneath the protected tree canopy (which could be viewed from the listed Mansion House and the Capability Brown Landscape setting). Proposals were designed to be varying in scale, form and oprientation/ alignment to serve this aim - with the 'exception to the rule' being a viewing and experience tower at the fulcrum of the campus facilitating interaction with the environment within the canopy itself.  

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