Victoria
The new works at Cranbourne Secondary College, including a new 2-court sports facility and expansive new outdoor learning spaces, are designed to collectively reshape the campus environment, creating diverse new educational opportunities for the school, reinforcing its identity and allowing for future development.
The building acts to contain the campus space and create a new active edge and supervised external space. The language of the building is of a simple box with exaggerated parapets and a distended ‘lantern’ element to identify the entry and staff areas .
Timber diagrid canopy structures are arranged within the landscape, creating outdoor classrooms which also facilitate separate indigenous men’s and women’s gatherings as sought in the indigenous community consultation
New landscape works between the sports hall and existing buildings provide new area for passive play and outdoor learning using indigenous planting and landscape mounds for both privacy and promenade.
The new stadium is having a transformational impact on a variety of aspects of our College. The incorporation of high-quality physical education facilities alongside retractable seating, audio visual equipment and training studio has provided opportunities to build community partnerships with sporting organisations and renew student and parent pride in the College.
The stadium provides an outstanding setting for physical education as well as College assemblies and events focused on recognising the skills, talents and achievements of our students and staff. In turn this has engendered a renewed sense of student and community pride in the College.
Monica Shanley, Project Architect
Sarah Bourke, Design Development
Tim Daborn, Project Architect
Xin Yan Choo, Graduate of Architecture
Cortese Consultants, Services Consultant
Currie & Brown, Quantity Surveyor
Mckenzie Group, Building Surveyor
PD Structures, Structural Engineer
Watson Moss Growcott, Acoustic Consultant
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
