2017 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Marshland School
The relationship between the end-use client and architect was key to the success of this project. Ideas were able to be thoroughly tested and refined before being implemented. The simple forms and structure of the school are brought to life through the clever use of a restrained and robust palette of materials. The use of an LVL portal structure is efficient but also provides warmth, rhythm and scale appropriate to the children using the spaces. Shelving and window seats, or ‘Dream Boxes’, occupy the spaces between the portals connecting the learning spaces to the external world. Strandboard-clad ‘mountains’ provide a robust and fun organising structure within the open internal learning environment, defining the separate but connected spaces crucial to the pedagogies practised by the school.
- Practice
- S&T Architects and Hayball
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
