St Philip’s Christian College Port Stephens – Junior School | SHAC

This project presented SHAC with three unique opportunities. Firstly, to provide SPCC with a street presence along Salamander Way; to design and deliver junior aged classroom spaces with a modern teaching pedagogy, with breakout spaces and direct links from indoor to outdoor learning zones: and finally provide a window of vision into the school site, bursting with nature and biophilic principles as a direct link to indigenous teaching principles that would occur within the building.

A key component of the design was to integrate learning support, STEM facilities and the Indigenous Education program that the school were instigating within this new building program.

The project provides a gesture to the public domain with its large entry roof form, with yarning circle beneath, with areas of landscaped gardens to the northern boundary, in direct reference to the surrounding local neighbourhood context.