Challenge

St Mary Magdalene Academy is a £30 million school for 1400 students in Islington, North London, award-winning and highly acclaimed for its sustainability philosophy and enhanced social interaction. The difficult requirement was for a suite of benches that

Approach

The school's exterior spaces were completed in September 2009 by the installation 17 distinctive stone benches, supplied by Woodhouse. The Escofet Twig benches were made by Woodhouse's Spanish architectural stone partner, and were selected for the way the

Result

An aesthetically pleasing yet highly functional and durable play area. The Twig supports social area interaction due to its asymmetric, branching, Y-shaped form. The forms interlock, so they can be assembled in a variety of ways, to break up and sub-divid