The city council’s £16 million education facility completes in Aberdeen
Scott Brownrigg’s Milltimber Primary School was completed this year in Aberdeen.
Designed for Aberdeen city council, the £16 million project offers increased capacity for 434 pupils and an additional 60 early learning and childcare places.
Four teaching pavilions are arranged to provide classrooms with safe direct access to the outdoors, while the reception and assembly hall form a formal frontage to the public-facing side of the school.
Sports provision, learning and free play spaces including a sensory garden and 3G synthetic pitch wrap around the teaching pavilions, providing opportunities for outdoor learning and a nature-lined backdrop to the school.
The playground for the nursery is a separate, secure area visually connected to the main playground space, with a focus on natural and free play.
A series of specialist sensory and changing facilities have been included within a single-storey, level access to ensure accessibility and inclusion for all.
Conceived around strong sustainable and placemaking principles, the school introduces the potential for a central public square and a subtle divide between public and private spaces allows for parts of the building to open up for community use.
Great care has been taken to ensure the school has the ability to adapt for future use. The structure, services and lighting have been designed to provide ease of installation for class division partitions, should an alternative layout be required.
NVHR units support a natural ventilation strategy, providing mixed air to reduce cold draughts in winter and enhance exhaust during summer.
The cross-laminated timber structure is a lightweight natural structural solution, which seeks to reduce carbon at source. Chosen for its aesthetic and durability, and finished in aggregated panels, vertical terracotta cladding, slate brick and anthra-zinc.
Milltimber forms part of the Education New Build Programme which will contribute to the Council’s Learning and Childcare Expansion Programme.
Project details
Architect Scott Brownrigg
Client Aberdeen City Council
Structural engineer Fairhurst
M&E consultant Wallace Whittle
QS Faithful+Gould
Landscape consultant Wardell Armstrong LLP
Project manager Aberdeen City Council/Neil Esslemont
Main contractor Robertson Construction Tayside Ltd
Archaeologist AOC
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