Fordbridge Community Primary School
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CLIENT Soilhull Metropolitan Borough Council
LOCATION Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham, B37 5BU
CONSTRUCTION VALUE £8,150,000
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Civic Trust Regional Award 2017 - Winner
Graphisoft ARCHICAD Sustainable Project of the Year 2016 - Runner up
The Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards (GAGAs) 2017 - Shortlisted
A new 2.5 form entry primary school
The school is situated in Chelmsley Wood and forms part of a regeneration programme for North Solihull.
The new school brings together primary teaching facilities, a private nursery and community facilities with the teaching accommodation arranged into three distinct teaching phases.
Adjacent to the school site is a large Primary Care facility with shops nearby, meeting the local authority's ambition to make this area into a ‘village centre’. The approach to the school reflects this ambition, with a large public courtyard space, enclosed on three sides, to the front of the school.
Beyond the public courtyard is a private teaching courtyard with the wider teaching provision set around this space.
Phase 3 is set on the first floor, and opens out onto a teaching terrace.
The building has low pitched roofs with overhanging eaves to provide shade to the extensively glazed classrooms. Constructed in masonry, the building has high thermal mass to regulate internal temperatures, there is natural ventilation throughout.
