Keep Exploring Architizer by Creating a Free Account or Logging in.

This feature is for industry professionals.  To unlock it, signup and then join or add your company. To unlock this feature,  signup and then submit your professional details.

Membership is Free.

LinkedIn Facebook Google
or
Already a Member? Sign in.
Add To Collection Add to Collection
Parramatta’s first high-rise school  

Parramatta’s first high-rise school

View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection
View Original View Original
Add To Collection Add to Collection

Other Projects by Grimshaw Architects

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Siam Premium Outlets

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Yoox Net-A-Porter Tech Hub

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Add To Collection Add to Collection

London Bridge Station

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Euston Station HS2 Terminal

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Fulton Center

Add To Collection Add to Collection

Queens Museum of Art Expansion

Parramatta’s first high-rise school

STATUS
Concept
International architecture practice Grimshaw and Australian practice BVN have developed proposals for a totally new typology of school in Parramatta, New South Wales. The redevelopment of the Arthur Phillip High School (APHS) and Parramatta Public School (PPS) will become not only the first prototype in NSW for future focused learning, but also the state’s first high-rise education facility.

Bringing together global leadership and design innovation, the consultant team was unveiled by the NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli.

At more than 14 storeys high, and accommodating up to 2,000 students at the high school and 1,000 students at the primary school, the combined APHS/PSP redevelopment responds to the significant urban densification of Sydney and demonstrates NSW’s policy for large schools on smaller consolidated land holdings.

The design is based on the model of ‘Schools-within-Schools’ (SWIS), a template which delivers learning in stages rather than via age groups. Each school is comprised of small personalised units, or ‘home bases’, with students from across a range of ages and backgrounds.

Each home base houses up to 280 primary and 330 secondary students and will create a community environment which each pupil can identify as their own. New adaptive layouts and a kit of parts approach to furniture and space also offer flexibility to cater for a variety of learning styles and facilities.

Grimshaw Partner Andrew Cortese explained, “The school buildings act as the social infrastructure for the transformation of individuals and their communities through learning, inclusivity and outreach, with wellbeing and playfulness arising out of the integration of the physical and the environmental”.

The 66 m high secondary school houses six home-bases within a series of large two storey spaces. With stacked mezzanines and outdoor learning terraces, each home base contains science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics facilities at all of the building’s levels.

The primary school is contained within a four-storey gradually curving form, creating an outdoor learning and play space which comprises three home-base areas and a kindergarten. These are interlinked horizontally and vertically with stairs, terraces and platforms.

BVN Principal, Abbie Galvin noted that “The buildings are open and permeable thereby enabling connectivity and nurture.”

Andrew Cortese stated; “The programme for the schools is one of pedagogical leadership and innovation, which is supported by Grimshaw and BVN’s design objectives for an architecture that is distinct in its response and which makes place for culture to manifest, individuals to learn and communities to emerge."

Product Spec Sheet

Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.

Collaborating Firms

Team