St. Mary’s School is an independent girl’s school in Cambridge that prides itself on nurturing students and cultivating individuals with a broad social vision after the example of Mary Ward, its founder.
We designed and delivered a refurbishment and new build intervention for the School, to improve facilities for existing students, provide the spaces essential to teaching a modern curriculum, and to support a forward-thinking pedagogical approach. It was necessary to carefully think through our sustainability options for this project as it encompassed a variety of works within the overall masterplan, with each element requiring a bespoke approach.
The project rationalises and refurbishes the internal spaces of the key teaching block to create larger classrooms and improve spatial use, signage and accessibility. We also designed a new CLT frame two-storey insertion, expanding classroom spaces on both floors. The upper half of the classroom block is clad in a light copper-alloy, bringing a bit of light and colour to the new extension, while the thermal performance of the building fabric is improved at each point of intervention.
Find out more about the construction details in our On Site blog
