A Gateway
to Nature
Prospectively situated in the Edinburgh areas of Leith Walk and Canonmills on McDonald Road, this learning centre for environmental education, affectionately called Earth School, is main graduate project for the ECA Interior design BA course.
The project involves the repurposing of a 1960’s fire station into a centre for interdisciplinary learning. The centre aims to bring the newest generations closer to a deep understanding of the living world and interconnected organisms that support life.
The Project Ethos.
We must change our attitude towards our vulnerable home, Earth, and its complex connected natural world. we have nevertheless progressively secluded ourselves within the confides of interior spaces. In order to reconnect with the natural world, these interior spaces, especially those for formative development such as schools, must become a gateway; a means of achieving a truer connection to the live world outside. This is achieved through the application of biophilic design and the taking of ‘nature as precedent’ in interior projects.
