RNIB Vision School, Coventry
Client: Royal National Institute for the Blind
Role: Architecture
An exemplar design for a £23.5m new special needs school and children's home for 60 young people.
PRP's expertise in the specialist housing sector paved the way to design a £23.5 million project for a special needs school, care centre and full time children's home for the RNIB. The design provides facilities that will meet the needs of 60 blind and partially sighted young people with complex physical or cognitive impairments, or both, from the ages of 11 to 19 years old. Being a phased redevelopment of an existing campus, the scheme must minimise disruption to the childrens' lives during construction, whilst providing an exemplar facility.
The school has been designed to have all teaching and resource areas on the ground floor with staff and the campus directorate at first floor. Progress through the school years is reflected in the layout of the building; Key Stage 3 is nearest the entrance followed by Key Stage 4 and moving up to Sixth Form. The rise in site levels was also used to enhance this feeling of progress.
