Victoria
The project reimagines a conglomeration of six different buildings that presented an amorphous, impenetrable wall of building dividing the Star campus.
The transformative gesture was to create a portico at ground level through the 1930s infill, immediately providing ground level connection between the east and west campuses.
External accretions were removed, and new entrances and Chapel connections enable a new spiritual engagement. Floor levels were rationalised, and new vertical circulation provides universal access.
Internal demolition created flexible learning and gathering spaces for senior students and staff. Structural roof forms are revealed internally, enabling different layers of history to be understood. Light filled, voluminous spaces offer a variety of pedagogical settings enabling collaborative and facilitative models.
The College history has been referenced through the retention of key elements of the original buildings and is celebrated in a collage of new collaborative and instructive spaces that honour the architectural integrity of place.
Our vision was to celebrate the College history through design, to model lifelong learning, encourage collaboration and to enhance campus circulation.
The innovative learning spaces facilitate the relationship between teaching, learning and enhanced curricula, and accommodate flexible pedagogy.
Circulation has been significantly enhanced by the portico, enabling east to west circulation and universal access.
The College history has been referenced through the retention of key original building elements, and the celebration of significant people and places.
The inspired design has enhanced an already beautiful building, providing exceptional collaborative and instructional spaces, whilst honouring the architectural integrity of the existing building.
Angus Wishart, Design Architect
Dan Bisetto, Design Architect
John Lee, Design Architect
John Rice, Project Architect
ACOR Consultants, Services Consultant
Before Compliance Pty Ltd, DDA consultant
Dobbs Doherty Pty Ltd, Fire engineering consultant
Hellier McFarland, Land surveyor
Leigh Design Pty Ltd, Waste management
Miglic MacLeod, Structural Engineer
Natalie Gray Pty Ltd, Town Planner
Openwork Pty Ltd, Landscape Consultant
RBS (Melb) Pty Ltd, Building Surveyor
Root Partnership, Project Manager
Wilde & Woollard, Quantity Surveyor
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.
