Meriden Senior School Design and Creative Arts Building | Architectus

Meriden Senior School’s new Design and Creative Arts building is designed to inspire student creativity, by crafting a building that reflects the process of making, prototyping and the creative arts disciplines. 

Located on a school campus with limited space, the building floats as a sculptural form above natural ground, creating a continuous protective perimeter, bringing nature into learning spaces. Designed as a series of working studios with gallery and display spaces on all levels, student work is showcased throughout and embodies the school’s belief that creativity and design thinking are essential to a complete education.   

Perched above the public thoroughfare, the DaCA building sits behind mature trees along Redmyre Road. Within the site, the building stands proudly on the western end of the senior school campus, presenting a contemporary addition to the school, overlooking the Strathfield neighbourhood and tree-top canopies to the north and west.