GOLD CREEK ENVIROMENT CENTRE
MAY & RUSSELL ARCHITECTS
CATERGORY: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
The Gold Creek Primary Environment Centre was designed as a highly efficient, energy positive, environmentally advanced building that achieved a 6 Star Green Star - Education Design v1 Certified Rating, which represents ‘World Leadership’ in environmentally sustainable design - the first primary school building in Australia to do so and the only ACT BER building to achieve a Greenstar certified rating. The building design is a modern architectural interpretation of the existing school and uses a combination of traditional and contemporary materials and colours to provide interest to the building form whilst internally maintaining flexibility between the various learning spaces. The facility is designed as an integrated built environment to help students and visitors become aware of, learn from and participate in environmentally sensitive human activity, including the propagation, growth and maintenance of plants. It incorporates a range of various passive and active elements to demonstrate environmentally sensitive design. Initiatives include how rainwater can be captured, stored and used for garden irrigation and toilet flushing, how natural ventilation can cool buildings, and how electricity can be generated by the sun and used to power lighting and heating. All designed to articulate the benefits of good environmental design.
PROJECT TEAM
Architect/Practice: May & Russell Architects
Practice Team: Jeremy Mather (Project Architect), Peter May (Design Architect), Carla Gibbon (Graduate of Architecture)
Consultant Team: Sellicks (Structural/Hydraulic Consultant), DSB (Landscape Consultant), Emma Sokolowski (Interior Designer), SLR Heggies (Acoustic Consultant), GHD (Services Consultant), Viridis (Environmental Consultant), Davis Langdon (Cost Consultant), Land Data (Building Surveyor)
Construction Team: Shaw & Associates (Project Manager)
Photographer: Ben Wrigley
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