Orchard Brae ASN, Aberdeen

jmarchitects, in conjunction with Aberdeen City Council worked intensively with a wide range of specialist teaching staff, external agencies, parents and specialist equipment suppliers to develop a bespoke, detailed project brief, accommodation schedule and design concept which addressed the very specific needs of the pupils and provides staff with the facilities they require in order to provide the level of support and teaching needed. 

The design process began with looking from the inside out, with a focus on the quality and arrangement of the internal spaces and the inter-relationship between the spaces.

A building which both internally and on elevation defies it’s mass presents itself as a cluster of much smaller, more intimate, personal spaces. 

The resultant design provides an exciting and functionally efficient building with the highest quality of internal and external spaces. This is a building with a considered and respectful community presence of which the pupils and staff can be proud and a place where they will want to associate with and engage in learning.