Education and health
Educational facilities are now taking an active role in designing and managing their landscape as a teaching resource. Recent commissions have involved outdoor classrooms and designs for new primary and secondary schools and universities.
The health care sector is also increasingly using landscaping as a means of enhancing buildings and grounds for both employees and patients.
Hospital Roof Garden: Birmingham
Student First building at Coventry University. Italian Cypress were used to contrast with the blue exterior.
Learning through landscapes enables staff to use more creative teaching methods and play spaces.
Habitat areas form an important part of school premises and are now being incorporated as a resource into the national curriculum.
Bespoke works including: wood carving, mosaic, willow weaving, bronze, ceramic, stone carving and ironwork can form part of the school grounds experience.