HarrisonStevens are enhancing their nature based solutions portfolio with recent commissions at Fettes College. We have secured both the Landscape Management Plan and the Wellbeing Centre projects in recent months and are delighted at the progress of both.
The Landscape Management Plan (LHMP) provides a review of the whole 100-acre campus to consider the positive environmental contribution it makes to the city. It will build on the school’s previous plan, a comprehensive document which has directed the management of the landscape over the last 25 years. Environmental and design practices have evolved, global considerations and priorities have changed. It is therefore important that now is the time to have a refresh and to rejuvenate the LHMP for the next generation of Fettesians. Our proposals will set out an holistic framework for the care and enhancement of the Fettes College landscape. The landscape provides a setting for the scholarly life, through sports, the curriculum, and the pastoral aspects of the school, which leads to an enhanced sense of wellbeing and healthy lives. It is important therefore to ensure the long-term sustainability of the landscape, the trees and woodlands, the pitches, the walks and drives, and the design landscape setting of the school buildings. The campus estate is beautiful and we have enjoyed many a site visit over the last few months, mature trees and woodlands structure the campus providing spaces in between for school life. These woodlands and rides of mature trees play host to various school activities such as outdoor lessons and pursuits, mountain bike trails, cross country runs and simply a place to relax and enjoy nature. The impact the landscape has on everyday aspects of the school life is not to be underestimated.
In addition to the vision of the wider campus we are working within the consultant design team lead by Page\Park to deliver the new Wellbeing Centre on the east side of the campus. We provide landscape architect services which while ensuring the environs and setting of the new building is sensitive and appropriate to the character and scale of its context, it acknowledges that trees are of paramount concern. The existing trees in close proximity to the proposed new Wellbeing Centre are to be carefully managed and protected during the construction stage of the project. HarrisonStevens look forward to the delivery of the project, currently in stage 4, including the protection of the trees and the establishment of a new centre set within the existing mature landscape.’
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