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BVN employee;

Scale: 18,580 m²

Stages: SD - DD

Tools / Skills: Façade Coordination, Revit, Photoshop, Indesign, Sketching

Time: 2018

Construction Cost: $115,000,000.00

BSSSC is located in Dutton Park, South Brisbane and built on a sloping site with a northern aspect. Making most of the available land and allowing for future flexibility, the school spreads itself horizontally in a campus style with clearly identifiable blocks for learning, administration, and sport.

Various buildings are organised around external circulation routes with main points of entries to the school defined as large outdoor rooms for gathering and learning, all of which creates a learning environment for both formal and serendipitous learning and teaching. Contextual view line connections to physical landmarks are expressed to ground students in their local surroundings and foster a sense of place.

The façade of the school whilst highly efficient and economical, references both environmental and cultural contexts. Past indigenous activities are referenced in contrasting manners through “additive” screening devices referencing weaving and “subtractive” precast concrete wall construction referencing carving.

This project was undertaken as a BVN employee and procured as a D&C. to which BVN remained technical advisors to the Department of Education past delivering DD documentation.