Catmose Campus

Sector Education/Community/Sports/Cultural

Client Catmose College

Location Oakham, Rutland

Value £24 million

GEA 110,000 sq ft

Awards RIBA Award 2012, GAGA Award 2012

Catmose Campus is the culmination of over ten years of Ellis Miller’s experience within the education sector. A last hurrah of the former government’s BSF initiative, delivered on a budget far smaller than that of an Academy, the project is intended to demonstrate best practice in school design and, we hope, will shine as an example of what the programme could and should have achieved. The building eschews the current fashion in schools design for gratuitous bright colours and asymmetrical shapes in favour of an unabashed modernism in the tradition of the early British high tech movement. It is the realisation of a clear architectural diagram based on core principles of legibility, accessibility and adaptability.