How to Design a BSF School

For those wondering about the process of designing a new school under BSF, this video is well worth a watch.   It’s a slideshow with audio taken from a lecture at the University of Nottingham by Alan Dale, an Education Architect and independent consultant for a number of London Boroughs on BSF.

The first 5 minutes are  a bit dull, but it does get better! Try and stay with it beyond the first couple of slides!

In the video, Alan Dale explains how the BSF design process moves from initial vision, to a list of rooms and requirements, to considering adjacencies, before moving on to design ideas.  He takes a look at different plan forms and also discusses issues around circulation and flexible building design.

The lecture gives an interesting overview of the process  of designing a new school, and you can spot a number of the similar design elements in our own original design plans from 2005.