Jury citation
The project includes the addition of four primary and four preprimary classrooms at the state-listed historic school site and provides for a variety of experiences, opening views to the surrounding streets and the distant city while allowing an intimacy in literally tracking and mapping direct sunlight, the winter solstice and the beginning and end of the school year. It gives students new ways of seeing their broader environment and sustainability, by developing an educational tool based on light, colour and pattern. The jury was impressed by the way the architects have shifted the primary education model within typically rigid departmental guidelines.
Credits
- Project
- Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building
- Architect
- Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
Australia
- Project Team
- Adrian Iredale (project director), Finn Pedersen (design director), Martyn Hook (design team member), Mary McAree (project graduate of architecture), Tom See Hoo, Nikki Ross (documentation architects), Rebecca Angus (documentation graduate of architecture), Rebecca Hawkett, Fred Chan, Craig Nener, Thomas Forbes, Leo Showell (graduates of architecture)
- Consultants
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Acoustic consultant
Gabriels Environmental Design
Art Coordinator Maggie Baxter
Artist Paul Caporn
Builder Broad Construction Services
Building surveyor Milestone Certifiers
Cost consultant Ralph Beattie Bosworth
Electrical consultant BEST Consultants
Hydraulic consultant Wood and Grieve Engineers, Hocking Heritage Studio
Landscape consultant 4Landscape Studio
Mechanical consultant Stevens McGann Willcock and Copping
Program consultant Perfect Project Planning
Structural and civil engineer Prichard Francis
Surveyor Landsurveys
- Site Details
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Location
Perth,
WA,
Australia
Site type Urban
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Category Education
Type Schools
