- Completion: 1999
- Cost: £1.25 million
- Client: Essex County Council
- Awards:
- Civic Trust Award 2001
- RIBA Award for Architecture 2000 'Sustainability Award' 2000
- Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust Award 2000 - Building of the Year
- CIBSE Award for Innovation
- Millennium Products Status 1999
- Egan Demonstration Project 1999
- BCIA British Construction Industry Awards - Highly Commended 2000
The winner in an open competition to design a prototype school which could be energy-efficient and sustainable yet built to a conventional school budget. Classroom orientation, floor to wall ratios, sunlight penetration, natural ventilation measures and spatial arrangement resulted in a distinctive triangular form and angular profiles.