
Westwater Building, Dollar Academy
Key Facts
Client
Dollar Academy
Location
Dollar Academy, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, FK14 7DU
Value
£2,000,000
Internal Floor Area
1000m2
Completion
August 2015
Layered strata of ground level cloister below a glass beam of a terrace topped by ventilation funnels.
Project Info
Within the secluded campus of Dollar Academy and adjacent to the Category A listed Playfair Building, the Westwater Building houses classrooms for language study. The narrow plot embeds the classrooms into the slope of the site, with ventilation into each through expressed vertical chimney stacks. Circulation space opens out to the quadrangle of the all-weather hockey pitch in the form of a boldly cantilevering glass circulation viewing gallery which sits above a sheltered ground floor passage.


Testimonial
“We are greatly indebted to you and your team for ensuring that we have added such an outstanding building to our campus. I would be most grateful if you would pass on the thanks of the governors to all the team.”
Professor J McEwen Chair of the Board of Governors
Selected Awards
Scottish Design Awards - Education Category - 2016
GIA Awards - Education Category - 2016
GIA Awards - Good for Wood Award - 2016
Sarah Jane Bogle, RIAS Emerging Architect of the Year for her work on The Westwater Building