Site Tour 13: Northern Fringe 1
On this tour you will visit two independent schools serving emerging communities.
Xavier College- Two Wells Campus
Architect: Edge Architects
The Catholic Church Endowment Society, together with Catholic Education SA, identified both a need and opportunity to establish a new school campus to support the teaching and learning requirements of students and young families in the northern suburbs. It was decided that a new campus of Xavier College, would be developed at Two Wells. The campus has commenced as an R-6 school, and grow to an R-12 school as more young families move to the region. The new campus of Xavier College is located at Two Wells within the Eden residential estate being developed by the Hickinbotham Group.
This project realises the first part of a staged Master Plan for the Xavier College Two Wells campus, and consisted of the construction of one (1) new educational building, Hub Space, Open Learning Areas including 7 x General Learning Spaces, 2 x Maker Spaces, large/small flexible learning pods, School Reception, Staff Areas and new covered outdoor learning areas. It also includes landscaping to the surrounding areas, associated external works, new site works and services, all on a green site.
Trinity College
Architect: Detail Studio
Trinity College is a community established College servicing students and families in the north. The College identified the need to move from 20th century schooling goals to developing pedagogy to be in the best position to embrace 21st century educational challenges.
The Innovation + Creativity School building is quite a departure from the traditional built forms that have defined the College campus to date. This was a considered move by the College to set the framework for combining a new building with a clear strategic direction.
The building reflects the convergent point of the north and south campuses, founding its central location. The axial geometry of the new building aligns the ground floor with the orientation of the south campus buildings and the first floor aligns with the orientation of the north campus buildings.