Everyday Details

Detail matters. The everyday details of our unique lives shape how we experience the world we each inhabit. Even well considered briefs can leap from strategic visions to room data sheets. Somewhere, running through this, are hidden the narratives of young lives lived from classroom to classroom.

Hazelwood School has been acknowledged internationally as a stunning example of how a building can harness all the senses in pursuit of getting the physical details just right. It may be a specific response to pupils with specific needs, but the way it does this says something important to us all. It reminds us that education is experienced by one child at a time.

When we design for nobody in particular – it shows. Good design needs us to get personal.


Hazelwood School from A+DS.