School: Coomera Anglican College
Project:  The Hub
Architect: Burling Brown Architects
Photographer: TBA 

A visit to ‘The Hub’ offers a unique opportunity to experience a significant and delightful learning environment. The College’s design brief placed emphasis on principles that promote Community, Collaboration and Communication.

The Hub’s active learning spaces, dynamic group settings, and makerspaces represent the evolving paradigm of educational environments designed to foster collaboration, creativity, and engagement. These spaces are built to be flexible and adaptable, with mobile human centred furnishings, variant layouts and scales that facilitate the reorien-tation of the teacher-student relationship. In these settings, students and educators are partners in learning, and the traditional, top-down approach to instruction is replaced by more participatory and inquiry-driven pedagogy.

The four levels in the building include contemporary spaces housing a new staff hub, community café, eatery, resource centre, dynamic learning spaces, makers spaces, meeting spaces, study spaces for introvertive and extrovertive learning and teaching personalities, media hub and studios, sound proof booths, conference spaces and an innovative multi-functional theatre with the ability to run two independent lectures, e-sports tournaments with spectator viewing and intermate performances.

School: St Joseph’s College, Coomera
Project:  Masterplan and Stages 1 - 4
Architect: Macksey Rush Architects
Photographer: Angus Martin 

St Joseph’s Coomera is a P-12 college master-planned for 1800 students. The design and material choices work with the existing site conditions to develop a culture of building that is educationally, ecologically, socially and economically sustainable. The planning of the site reflects the social identity of the phases of learning - broadly clustered into five groupings each containing flexible indoor/outdoor learning environments, multipurpose facilities, specialised and general learning areas and ubiquitous access to learning tech-nologies. All buildings are naturally lit and ventilated with maximised access to outdoor spaces and the broader natural landscape.