stage 2 classrooms

A sweeping verandah provides an invitation into this primary school and creates a campus-like feel that builds a harmony between the old and the new. respect for existing trees and playground areas has dictated a complex floorplan, with the reward being a strong sense of integration with the landscape.

The use of natural finishes in this classroom project includes timbercrete walls, rough sawn timber, oiled parquetry flooring, fine wool carpets and earth based paints, providing a generous sense of quality. Curving rooflines and natural lighting provide a feeling of warmth and connectedness too the surrounding bushland, framed as an ever-changing portrait through each arching window. North
orientation and the use of steep roof pitches to suit solar power were integral to the roof design.

project team: alvyn williams, carolina snow

photographs: ben wrigley