Charles Thomson and Claire Barton in conversation with Isabel Allen

Working on school buildings, making sense of masterplans and the challenges involved in wrapping an existing building in a new exoskeleton and an entirely new facade. Charles Thomson is the founding director of Studio 54 Architecture and Claire Barton is a partner at Haverstock. The pair also discuss their extension to the Forest School in Epping in an article for Architecture Today, which touches on wrapping a new exoskeleton around an existing building, working with Accoya, and developing a language that stands up to the scale of the campus buildings and responds to the forest setting.