Big thanks to Leanne Stamp, the architect who designed our school, for coming in and speaking to us about what it takes to design a sustainable building, including choice of materials, transportation, ecology and the health and wellbeing of the building users.
Leanne talked us through the design of XP. East, and explained why certain design choices were made, for instance the roof lights in the corridors were put in to allow more natural light in. She even old us that she insisted on having bat boxes installed on the side of the building!
We will be using what we’ve learnt today to further explore what it takes to build “a place of our own”.