dn-a are thrilled to announce their involvement in the Planning submission for The Blue Tangerine Federation’s new School Training Café and Farm as part of St. Luke’s SEN School, Redbourn, Hertfordshire.
The Blue Tangerine Federation is a group of people who are passionate and dedicated about the work they do “to ensure young people with special needs can enter the mainstream workplace and use their learning and experiences at school to shine”. The creation and running of accessible workplaces on the school sites supports the holistic curriculum through real work experience to enable pupils to practice the necessary skills and gain industry accreditation for a working life.
Having already successfully set up the Blue Tangerine Horsebox Café, where students have received qualifications in Barista Skills and Food Hygiene, the charity are excited to be pursing their new Café and Farm site at St Luke’s SEN School with the help of their partners including us! dn-a are proud to be a part of this wonderful and enriching scheme.
The Blue Tangerine – Horsebox Café
The proposals consist of a new Training Café in the southern part of the site and an expansion of the existing animal enclosures in the northern part of the site. The area designated for the Café building currently is an existing area of hard standing, which is no longer used as part of the children’s activities. To support this proposed facility, the current access road into the school site will be re-modelled and extended up to this area with a new dedicated car park for the new Café building.
dn-a Visual
The plan of the building has been organised around the building’s visual connection with the school, access to the site from the south, and the proposed farm to the north. The internal arrangement of spaces within the building focuses on delivering a flexible multi-functional space around the café servery and kitchen hub, positioned towards the rear, which can be accessed from the western boundary.
Proposed landscape plan – courtesy of TOR
dn-a Proposed ground floor plan
dn-a are proud to be a part of this wonderful and enriching scheme and we can’t wait for this project to come into fruition!