Thinking, Teaching, Learning
Explorations in Primary School Design

This publication has been produced firstly; to document architectural design work by a unit of third year architectural students at the University of Edinburgh taught over five successive years (2004-8) and secondly; to re-present the work to a wider audience to provide architectural response to the Scottish Government's educational policy document 'A Curriculum for Excellence'. The designs suggest how the built environment could enable educators to deliver the Curriculum's aims and objectives in a more successful way. The students' work is seen as particularly useful when approaching the question - 'what is a primary school?' as they are less constrained than real building proposals, hold no preconceptions of brief or clients and tap into a freely creative train of thought.