Jells Park Primary School
Architecture architecture was engaged by Jells Park Primary School to lend a little love to a pair of worn-out portables, making them feel as special and welcoming as any other building in the school.
When the semi-temporary becomes semi-permanent, it’s time for a spruce. Keeping within the footprint of the existing structure, internal walls have been rearranged to accommodate new breakout spaces and teacher resource spaces, to be shared between three classrooms.
The new amenities include staff collaboration spaces, a mini-amphitheatre for class presentations, reading nooks for quiet retreat, wet areas for making a mess, and lounges for group projects and games. When required, these new shared spaces can be closed-down with large sliding doors, while glass portholes maintain lines-of-sight for ease of supervision.
| Location | Wheelers Hill |
| Completed | 2023 |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Construction | Newton Manor Construction |
| Photography | Tom Ross |
| Details | See floorplan |
Apart from substantially improving the teaching and learning amenity, the school leadership were keen to introduce a bold new colour palette to ignite young minds and inspire fresh engagement with learning. Pink bleachers and orange arches provide welcome relief from the classroom, bringing learning and play together.
RMIT Business Behavioural Lab
RMIT engaged Architecture architecture to design and deliver the fitout of new facilities for the Business Behavioural Lab. The brief required a thorough understanding of the stakeholders’ needs in order to deliver a laboratory where academics undertake controlled behavioural experiments with verifiable results.Melbourne CBD
RMIT Business Behavioural Lab
RMIT City Campus
Within this environment of high spatial drama, terraced seating and planting establish inviting human-scaled amphitheatres.Melbourne CBD
RMIT City Campus
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