Construction Skills Academy
Location: Glenrothes, Scotland
Type: Education & Industrial
Stage: Planning
Situated along the southern periphery of a wooded site, the construction campus pairs a construction skills academy with a timber frame factory and company headquarters. The new construction campus aims to deliver training alongside an active production line making new affordable homes for Fife. The wider campus joins the proposed new crematorium to the north and is mediated by a designed memorial landscape in-between.
Following the linear form of the south site, the buildings are split centrally to respect the existing tree line that forms an established core path across the site. This core path is intended to be maintained and further enhanced by the proposals.
Equally important is visibility into and through the industrial buildings to make the internal activities of manufacture and learning readable to the outside and equally provide a view to the outside for workers and students.
Collectively the construction campus and crematorium work as pairing which compliment one another in energy sharing. They share the same construction technique which is conscious of embodied energy reduction through responsible material selection and sourcing and they are connected via a new planted landscape that will emerge and mature along the connecting eastern edge of the site.