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Uppingham School
Rutland, England, United Kingdom
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Uppingham School
Rutland, England, United Kingdom
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
Orms’ two-decade partnership with Uppingham School has shaped a coherent, future facing campus where science, music, and sport act as equal catalysts for learning and community. Our work began with a sensitively delivered music centre, a contemporary yet contextually tuned building that secured planning by knitting discreetly into Uppingham’s historic streetscape while expressing the school’s cultural ambition. Building on a masterplan titled “Making the most of what we have,” we reimagined the Western Quadrangle to enhance coherence and activate in between spaces, replacing an outdated sports facility with a village of pavilions. Here, pool, fitness, sports hall, and gym are expressed as human scaled elements within the landscape, with the main pool volume earth sheltered to form a grassy grandstand, and a new thatched rugby pavilion—our first—rooting the ensemble in local craft.
The Science Centre, our third building for the Western Quad, is a Passivhaus led, L shaped composition that frames a new courtyard and opens its heart to the town. Clipsham stone is sharpened into a modernist facade with classical overtones—colonnades, a calm grid, and cast stone edges—while brick clad lab wings and an anodised aluminium “jewel box” library add material richness. Inside, generous circulation centres on a grand spiral stair and triple height gallery that hosts scientific artefacts and cross disciplinary displays; public facing spaces—reception, buttery, exhibition, and a well used lecture theatre—invite the whole school in, while stacked chemistry, biology, and physics labs animate the quad. Together, the music, sports, and science projects form a Renaissance inspired academic landscape that elevates everyday student life and projects a confident civic presence for Uppingham in the 21st century.
The Science Centre, our third building for the Western Quad, is a Passivhaus led, L shaped composition that frames a new courtyard and opens its heart to the town. Clipsham stone is sharpened into a modernist facade with classical overtones—colonnades, a calm grid, and cast stone edges—while brick clad lab wings and an anodised aluminium “jewel box” library add material richness. Inside, generous circulation centres on a grand spiral stair and triple height gallery that hosts scientific artefacts and cross disciplinary displays; public facing spaces—reception, buttery, exhibition, and a well used lecture theatre—invite the whole school in, while stacked chemistry, biology, and physics labs animate the quad. Together, the music, sports, and science projects form a Renaissance inspired academic landscape that elevates everyday student life and projects a confident civic presence for Uppingham in the 21st century.
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