The proposed layout of the quadrangle by the school’s architect created an open and spacious centre-piece. The intention was to reinforce this space by developing the fourth side as it was the only side with no buildings. A spatial relationship is created between the wooden structures and the school building with its pitched roofs. The new structures offer a gathering point for the communal interactions of Newpark Comprehensive. Reaching to the sky, the compositional elements of the structures are expressed while an awareness of how they were built is also preserved, imbuing them with a sense of honesty and material presence. A line of timber benches were set against the concrete planters to create a thickening of social space, one which would belong primarily to the students. Solid oak benches retain the feeling of having once been part of a tree but are refined to reveal the presence of human hand.