St. Stephen’s Innovation Centre | Clarke and Prince Architects

The Innovation Centre is a contemporary design response to a highly refined Client functional brief informed by a progressive secondary school educational pedagogy. The Centre is a space for ideating, collaborating, testing and prototyping.    

A central multi-purpose ‘forum’ space provides for a direct instruction area, collaborative working, central gathering and presentation area; also access to all other flanking functional spaces. Other spaces include a digital technology classroom, virtual reality classroom, multi-media production space with recording booths, ‘maker space’ and agricultural science laboratory, small and large meeting rooms, also a staff room. 

The building layout responds to the introspective brief of highly connected internal areas.  Natural light filtration is managed through extensive glazing, which also assists with passive supervision of all parts of the building.  The finishes reflect the innovation centric brief, provide way finding, incorporate colours that support creativity and energy, and manage the acoustic requirements of the multi-function spaces.