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Ebbw Vale Learning Zone

Location
Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK
Client
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council
Expertise
Architecture
Acoustics
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Lighting
Completion
2012
Cost
$28m

The Learning Zone is a further education development for 16 to 18 year olds and lies at the heart of regeneration of the former steelworks site at Ebbw Vale; the largest of its kind in Wales. The four-storey Zone provides educational opportunities in a series of key curriculum areas, as well as incorporating vocational training facilities such as hair and beauty salons, building and plumbing workshops and catering.

night view of building
Interior balcony looking down on atrium
Interior Atrium including stairs
Ebbw Vale Learning Zone
Ebbw Vale Learning Zone
Ebbw Vale Learning Zone

Part of the wider masterplan known as The Works which BDP also designed, is a leisure centre, schools for 3-16 year olds, a 500 space multi-storey car park and an energy centre.

These new education facilities will sit alongside an arts centre, low carbon housing, general offices and a wetland park in the $350m scheme.

Staircase

Brief

Make the Ebbw Vale redevelopment an exemplar for the area provide a mixture of flexible teaching space incorporating vocational training facilities engage a local supply chain

Results

The building provides an urban edge on the regeneration site close to the existing town centre excellent air tightness, exposed concrete soffits, natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting tanks and photovoltaic cells help achieve BREEAM excellent Welsh Architecture Awards 2013 runner up