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Architects: iredale pedersen hook architects
- Area: 1082 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Custom Orb, Decor Systems, Lysaght, Midland Brick, Original Ceramics
Text description provided by the architects. The new Highgate Primary School Teaching Classrooms immerse the students in a creative environment that is anchored into the surrounding context, creating new relationships and ways of seeing their environment. The building offers a variety of scales of experience from distant views to intimate classroom experiences. Light, color and pattern are developed as an educational tool extending the classroom curriculum into the built environment. The building is a microcosm of the city responding to the diverse and multi-cultural students, allowing occupants to find a place and space of preference. The school site is on the state heritage list. Iph architects initiated a whole of site school study to determine the location that would minimize impact to heritage buildings, recreation area, and vistas. We created a strong urban gesture bringing the school to the street corner and redefining how one enters the school.
