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Andrew N. Liveris Building
This flagship project for UQ incorporates a range of interconnected spaces with overlapping boundaries between learning, research and industry via a design encouraging a sense of shared discovery and collaboration. The building positions UQ into the future while also playing homage to its past, with a unique energy-efficient glass facade clad in a distinctive transparent veil derived conceptually from the chemical engineering process of turning sandstone into glass – with colours sampled directly from the nearby Great Court. Its compact vertical urban form provides informal learning spaces for students and staff, reclaiming half of the site for landscape spaces. These landscapes are connected to formal and informal student learning spaces visible from the campus via open interconnected ‘pod’ balconies. A central atrium space, derived from the form of the Great Court, links together the learning/research activities of the School of Chemical Engineering into a singular and highly connected collaborative environment.
By Lyons + m3architecture
Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones and Lyons
The Marian Centre, Brigidine College
The Marian Centre is a Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics building designed to encapsulate the College’s vision ‘to stimulate learning… for our young women to make a difference in the world.’ The College’s wider ethos is ‘strength and gentleness’.
The design endeavours to embody the vision and ethos through its plan, section, form, materiality and spatial configurations. Key to the plan is a naturally ventilated spine and contiguous indoor and outdoor auditoria, the latter engaging the school’s main open space.
Sustainability and authenticity are further College precepts. Almost the entire building is naturally ventilated through both cross and longitudinal air flows, with solar photovoltaics supplying conditioning when needed.
Classrooms and laboratories vary in format to stimulate participation, with those at the western end organically configured, and both ends protected by diaphanous operable ribbed screens, characterising the street and park interfaces.
STEM engagement has dramatically increased in the College.
By Blight Rayner
Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones
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The new Marian Centre is a robust and elegant STEM building, conceived to inspire young women in their future career pursuits in the science, technology and mathematics fields. The ascending central spine is a naturally ventilated, open-ended “street” which feeds into the varied modes of learning spaces and also serves as a versatile social and learning corridor across all of the levels. The building opens generously up to the school’s main green space, whilst carefully curating the engagement to the street and wider suburb. The masterful consideration and coordination of services results in a well-crafted and understated, fit-for-purpose facility that simultaneously conveys confidence and humility.
Hillbrook Anglican School Campus Revitalisation
The new Hillbrook Anglican School Campus Revitalisation’s primary purpose is to provide learners with a range of bespoke and flexible learning spaces that promotes the learning outcomes identified in the School’s educational framework to cater for an expanding student population.
Functionally, the redevelopment was to accommodate a new science centre, new English department, new design technology laboratory’s, new visual arts precinct, new administration, library extension, new school canteen, school shop, end-of-trip facilities, underground carparking, expanded outdoor learning opportunities, and a new school entry that spoke to Hillbrook’s ongoing engagement with its local community.
A comprehensive process of collaboration, consultation, investigation of leading practice and evaluation of experimentation led to a reimagining of how the Campus Revitalisation could provide effective support to the educational brief prepared by the School.
By BSPN Architecture
Photography by Angus Martin and Scott Burrows
St Joseph’s Nudgee College – Treacy Precinct
The State Heritage listed Treacy Precinct is home to the foundation buildings of St Joseph’s Nudgee College. Over time, the circa 1891 buildings and surrounding malls had been detrimentally altered and crowded by unsympathetic development. This transformative project returns the Treacy Precinct to an earlier appearance and form, and is the culmination of over a decade of strategic master planning.
The demolition of several 1970s buildings, careful archival research and a sensitive design response has re-established the Treacy Precinct at the centre of the College. The original veranda forms, including the cast-iron lacework, have been reinterpreted with contemporary detailing and the original colour schemes of the buildings have been reinstated.
The interiors have been restored and re-configured to meet contemporary needs for classrooms, a health centre, staff spaces and a museum. Work to the malls around the buildings has renewed important lost campus connections and reactivated community gathering spaces.
By m3architecture
Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones and Brody Grogan
Brisbane South State Secondary College
Brisbane South State Secondary College, the city’s newest vertical campus, offers next level learning connected with the contemporary knowledge network and the country it is bound to – a ridge historically used for camping, weaving and the making of tools by the local First Nations.
Visitors are welcomed within a generous arrival court into a memorable and vibrant central native garden, a magnet for community into the campus. Open galleries across all levels fringe the garden, encouraging interactions and framing views to the surrounding landscape.
Multi-discipline learning hubs are characterised by open and adaptable spaces arranged around double height presentation and making settings in order to share the benefits of education with all.
The architectural language is derived from the First Nations heritage of the site as a place of making, informing the scored details within the concrete facade, as well as harnessing a local palette of colours and materials.
By BVN
Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones
SVSS-Double Steaming Building
The Double Steaming Building an essential addition to the growth of the Samford Valley Steiner School campus.
The unique design, nestled amongst the treed landscape is non-intrusive and is very fitting with the existing typology of the school and it provides a very innovative sustainable solution with advanced materials expected in the modern classroom.
The key design concept is to oppose the verandas, so that each side relates to the earth and easily connects pupils to the school ground at each respective level which is very important to the younger student cohort.
The building design with its thermal mass, rain water harvesting, ample natural and roof ventilation, with careful choice of materials, make a very high sustainable index building on many levels.
The asymmetrical classroom layouts with deliberate fenestration design and colours provide both a minimal and intricate balance of curiosity and calmness to all the learning of the students.
By pentArchi: sustainable synergetic architecture
Photography by adnicphotography
John Paul College Kindergarten
John Paul College Kindergarten’s extension embodies its commitment to Reggio Emilia within the Australian context.
An early education approach that values children as capable, resilient and filled with wonder, Reggio Emilia encourages them to engage with all their senses – and be guided rather than directed by educators.
Deicke Richards designed the Kindergarten’s new environments as a ‘third teacher,’ with a floor plan and landscape supporting imaginative experiences with climate, form, light, smell, sound and taste.
The building features two learning spaces complemented by external play areas that encircle a piazza or green heart. Students transition from indoor to verandah areas then the piazza and outdoor spaces rich with native plants and bush foods.
The Burrow and Nest feature ateliers permanently dedicated to artistic exploration and large sliding windows that offer natural light and connection to outside. Thoughtful materiality adds colour, texture and warmth throughout.
By Deicke Richards
All Hallows' School Aquinas Hall
Deicke Richards’ adaptive renewal of Aquinas Hall has embedded a future-focused science precinct within the heritage-listed All Hallows’ School.
The project was uncovered as a priority during our master planning process with the school, which explored existing and emerging practices of learning – from the flexible, interactive and technology-rich to the digitally augmented, spatially distributed and virtual.
The refurbishment of Cullen and Partners’ five-storey 1964 building also features a contemporary tuckshop and café overlooking The Terrace, the school’s green heart.
Enhancing learning, health and safety outcomes as well as belonging, our ‘one building, two uses’ strategy has transformed a vital part of the campus.
By Deicke Richards
Photography by Mindi Cooke
Cannon Hill Anglican College D-Block
Working in conjunction with the College’s masterplan, the new building is a high-profile location for the campus and forms a critical connection for the linear journey from Prep to Year 12. The building provides a natural entry point into the campus and is an important intersection between the senior and middle schools. The building was intended to give CHAC flexibility in using the space acknowledging the College’s desire as part of the Masterplan to be able to use the space for a wide variety of functions, events and learning experiences.
Choosing a palette of white brick enhances the sense of surrounding bushland by providing a perfect background for the leaf shadows from the surrounding trees. The bushland inspired interior colour palette of muted greys, greens and pinks work as “wayfinding” prompts, helping students and visitors to the campus to navigate through the area.
By Reddog Architects in association with Blueline Architecture
Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones
