Keppie Design - Schools

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Keppie is a design 

led team of over a 

hundred architects, 

master planners and 

interior, urban and 

landscape designers. 

Future 

Looking 

Design 

Led 

We work across all scales and 

sectors with a network of studios 

to support our clients locally and 

internationally. Our designs are 

based on research, understanding, 

exploration and innovation. 

Keppie Schools 3


Introduction 

Combining a strong ethos for high quality design with functional understanding and 

cultural sensitivity, enables us to deliver schemes that exceed our Clients’ expectations 

and provides them with award winning environments that help people recover. 

Anticipating to a new world 

While the classroom still has its place, the facilities it contains will 

be different. Flexibility in the use of spaces is important, along with 

adaptability and multi-functionality, and an appreciation of how 

environmental systems, furniture and IT equipment play their part in 

creating a range of stimulating and reflective spaces. The boundaries 

between formal learning, play and experimentation are blurred in a 

variety of internal and external spaces. Scale is important for different 

age groups to minimise apprehension in assembly spaces and create 

more intimate environments for contemplation. 

At Keppie we believe we are at a pivotal point in the consideration of future learning 

environments. Despite our best attempts and the inquisitive, analytical nature of our 

training as architects, we certainly can’t predict the future. But there are things that 

we do know. One is that the type of work we undertake will continue to change for 

the majority of people. Our children will expect to change not only their jobs, but 

also their career choices several times in their working lives. 

Designers cannot – and should not – tell teachers how they should teach. But if we 

fail to question and mould the physical structure in which this learning takes place, 

then our schools will remain relatively static. We believe that everyone engaged in 

education and envisioning its future shape should also be concerned to change the 

current outdated paradigm to one which is better suited to the future needs and 

future learning of our young people and our communities 


secondary schools 

primary schools 

specialisms 

new learning environments 

ideas 


secondary schools 

Programme 

Alan 


Kirkwall Grammar School 

Orkney, UK 

Client : Morrison Construction 

Value: £58m 

Floor Area: 25,000 sqm 




Outstanding!. Young people from Orkney and nearby islands will be 

able to develop their skills in top rate educational facilities, including a 

fantastic new theatre, hair dressing salon, state of the art classrooms and 

an abundance of social space for the young people. 

Alex Salmond 

Scottish First Minister 

The whole school community has been lifted by the building which is 

light, airy and spacious. Break out spaces, double classrooms, a superb 

theatre and outstanding PE facilities are just some of the features that 

make the school a superb learning and teaching environment. 

Sheila Dick 

Head Teacher, 

Kirkwall Grammar School 


Dumbarton Academy 

Dumbarton, UK 

Client : West Dunbartonshire Council 

Value: £18m 



Greenwood Academy 

Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, UK 

Client : North Ayrshire Council / Dawn Construction 

Value: £20m 


The Keppie team 

provided excellent client liaison 

in delivering our project insisting 

on close linked communications 

with all team members. Their 

approach dealt not only with 

output, it also paid great 

emphasis on listening to others 

and understanding issues other 

members of the team had and 

how to accommodate them 

throughout the design and 

construction phases. 

At key stages Keppie had 

the authority and skills to make 

valued judgements that could be 

relied upon to move the project 

forward. 

Stephen Storrie 

North Ayrshire Council 



Inverclyde Schools PPP 

Greenock, UK 

Client : Barr Construction, Dawn Construction 

John Laing 

Value: £83m 




St Matthews Academy 

Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, UK 

Client : North Ayrshire Council / 

First Class Consortium 

Value: £25m 



Vale of Leven Academy 

Burnside High School 

West Dunbartonshire, UK 

Client : BAM Construction 

Value: £25.25m 


Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 

Client : North Tyneside Council / 

Kajima Construction UK 

Value: £21m 


in collaboration with Seymour Harris 


Deans Community High School 

West Lothian, UK 

Client : HDM School Solutions Ltd / 

West Lothian Council 

Value: £30m 



Midlothian Community Campus 

Dalkeith, UK 

Client : Midlothian Council / BAM Construction 

Value: £30m 


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Arran High School 

Lamlash, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, UK 

Client : Glasgow City Council /Balfour Beatty Construction 

Value: £18m 



Ellon Academy 

Ellon, Aberdeenshire, UK 

Client : Aberdeenshire Council 

Value: £32m 


in collaboration with Aberdeenshire Council 


primary schools 


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Keppie designer team have 

succeeded in creating a building 

that has surpassed our aspirations 

both internally in terms of the 

cleverly laid out teaching spaces 

optimising use of natural light and 

scenic outlook, as well as externally 

where they have designed a quality 

modern building of civic dignity, 

befitting its setting in a prominent 

location in the historic town of 

Stromness. 

Alan Moar 

Project Director 


Stromness Primary School 

Orkney, UK 

Client : Morrison Construction 

Value: £7.5m 


Image courtesy of Morrison Construction 

Image courtesy of Morrison Construction 


Bellsmyre Primary School 

Glasgow, UK 

Client : West Dunbartonshire Council 

Value: £8.9m 


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The set square 


Milton of Leys Primary School 

Milton of Leys Primary School 

Inverness, UK 

Client : The Highland Council / Morrison Construction 



Inverness, UK 

Client : The Highland Council / Morrison Construction 




Redwell Primary School 

Orkney, UK 

Client : Clackmannanshire Council / Amber Blue 

Value: £8.5m 


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2. Shared Teaching 

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5. Admin 

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9. Dining Hall 

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Highland Schools PPP 

Highlands & Islands Region, UK 

Client : Highland Council / Alpha Schools 

Value: £132m 



Mearns Primary School 

Newton Mearns, UK 

Client : East Renfrewshire Council /Jarvis Construction 

Value: £7m 



Stanley Primary School 

Ardrossan, UK 

Client : North Ayrshire Council 

Value: £5m 



Glasgow Schools Primary Vision 

Glasgow, UK 

Client : Glasgow City Council /Balfour Beatty Construction 

Value: £21m 



YoungstersHAVE 

designs 

ON building careers 

specialisms 


Vertical Campus 

Istanbul, TURKEY 

Client : Confidential 

Value: Confidential 




ADEC Schools Proposal 

Abu Dhabi, UAE 

Client : Abu Dhabi Education Council 

Value: Confidential / International Design Competition 

Floor Area: NA 


International School 

of Creative Sciences 

Sharjah, UAE 

Client : Bukhatir Group 

Value: £3m 


in collaboration with Hyder Consulting 



Papdale Student Residencies 

Orkney, UK 

Client : Orkney Island Council 

Value: £7m 

Accomodation: 70 bed 


new learning environments 


What if... 

Schools were organised 

around a totally flexible 

timescale, as opposed to a 

‘Railway timetable’ of bells 

and mass movement? 

This flexibility would be 

designed to suit firstly the 

pupils at their different 

ages and to fit with their 

recognised circadian 

rhythms; and secondly, the 

wider community of learners 

and business connections 

seeing the future school 

environment operating six 

days a week and from 7am 

to 10pm 

A sense of school community 

is not simply defined by a 

badge, common philosophy 

or written ethos. It needs 

space to grow and develop 

and should be inspired by 

opportunities to congregate, 

meet, chat, discuss, play 

and perform; all of the noncurricular 

activities which too 

often fall outside the theoretical 

requirements of a school 

design brief. 


What if... 

Pupils didn’t move around 

the school hourly from one 

small square classroom, 

along tight corridors to the 

next? 

If mass movement and 

circulation is a major issue, 

why not create bigger 

general spaces that are open 

and adaptable enough to 

allow three or four teachers 

to work on problem-based 

learning ideas, with up to 60 

kids in different sized groups. 

Pupils would learn from each 

other interactively in such 

environments and only move 

to study more specialised 

subjects such as PE or the 

Sciences. 

There is often a conflict 

between the idea of a school 

being a place for transferring 

a body of knowledge and 

education itself being 

an interactive process of 

transferring skills. If we can 

agree that pupils - simply 

due to their years - are as yet 

not fully formed and need to 

learn skills that will prepare 

them for adult life or further 

education, then ‘place of 

development’ could be an 

alternative definition which is 

equally valid. 


What if... 

Learning facilities 

responded to a 0-25 years 

demographic? Co-location 

of larger campus schools 

with further education 

colleges will help to 

promote collaborative 

and interactive learning 

with the wider community 

which is the essence of 

Curriculum For Excellence. 

The interactivity with 

the outside world of 

work, together with the 

efficiencies in optimised 

space and collective 

learning management 

will be the direct result 

of the promotion of new 

Educational Villages. 

The Educational Village is 

the Learning Environment 

of the Future. It doesn’t 

deliver education in a 

theoretical bubble. It fosters 

collaborative, interactive 

and completely learnerfocused 

development. It 

values creativity, innovation 

and leadership. It supports 

different ways of thinking 

and it reinforces this by the 

flexibility and adaptability 

of large-scale open spaces 

with multiple uses. This is the 

challenge facing those who 

brief and design our Future 

Learning Environments. 



The future belongs to a very 

different kind of person with a very 

different kind of mind--creators and 

empathizers, pattern recognizers and 

meaning makers. 

These people--artists, inventors, 

designers, storytellers, caregivers, 

consolers, big picture thinkers--will 

now reap society’s richest rewards 

and share its greatest joys. 

Daniel Pink, 

A Whole New Mind 


Wecollaborate – debate – review – workshop–model–sketch–research– invent 

challenge – dream– b u i l d – h y b r i d – r e - i n v e n t 

love it 

...........and 


Architecture by Keppie 


Glasgow 

Edinburgh 

Inverness 

CAIRO DUBAI ISTANBUL PUNE SINGAPORE TRIPOLI 

Contact us @ 

Glasgow 

T: +44 (0)141 204 0066 

Edinburgh 

T: +44 (0)131 220 3067 

Inverness 

T: +44 (0)1463 246 850 

Peter Moran 

Managing Director 

pmoran@keppiedesign.co.uk 

David Ross 

Design Director 

dross@keppiedesign.co.uk 

Maryla Betkowska 

Divisional Director 

mbetkowska@keppiedesign.co.uk 


Keppie Schools 

www.keppiedesign.co.uk

Keppie Design - Schools

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