LOCATION
Moonee Ponds, Victoria
CLIENT
Catholic Education Melbourne
SECTOR
Education
PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Clarke
TRADITIONAL LAND OWNERS
The Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People
AWARDS
Winner ~ Council of Educational Facility Planners, International, Australasia Award 2018
Shortlisted ~ Interior Design Awards 2017
Winner ~ Council of Educational Facility Planners, Victorian Chapter Award 2017
Winner ~ Council of Educational Facilities Planners, Victorian Chapter Award 2012
The St Monica’s Middle School and Senior School project represents the completion of a Master Plan prepared in 2009. The objective had been to modernise the existing Edwardian school building to accommodate 390 students across 4 year levels.
New learning environments were designed to be highly permeable through creative planning, making large openings in previously solid walls. The newly inter-connected spaces create a great sense of community. Classrooms now open into shared learning spaces enabling students to explore new ways of working together.
This project carefully integrates the existing building fabric, reconfiguring the courtyard into an internal modern learning space that will operate as a single facility.