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Outdoor classrooms with seating and green roofs for school
Handspring Design created two 6 x 4m timber outdoor classrooms with sedum green roofs, seating and planters for the roof space and playground of a primary school in Wandsworth, London. The base frames of the Angled shelters are made from galvanised steel box section, with UK FSC Douglas fir timber for the rest of the structure. They have been designed to
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Outdoor classroom with green roof, seating and SuDS planters on rooftop of primary school
Handspring Design created two 6 x 4m timber outdoor classrooms with sedum green roofs, seating and planters for the roof space and playground of a primary school in Wandsworth, London.
Project detail
Angled shelters
The base frames are made from galvanised steel box section, with UK FSC Douglas fir timber for the rest of the structure. They have been designed to be self-supporting, enabling them to sit on the school roof or playground without fixing down.
The shelters feature a sedum green roof, seating on three sides, and SuDS planters.
SuDS planters
The wooden SuDS planters use the run-off from the green roof and have soil at the top and a water reservoir below with slow water release, so they temporarily store the rainwater. They also have a permanent water storage tank at one end so that the children can water the planting beds during dry weather.
