Venice Biennale
Richmond High School
A1 Panel
A2 Panels
A4 Panels
Building Area
6350m2
Location
Richmond Melbourne, Australia
Est. Completion
2019
Sitting in a dense, multi ethnic inner urban area of Melbourne, the Richmond High School extends across two contrasting sites: the academic precinct and the athletics precinct, and caters for 650 young adults in years 7-12. The school incorporates a number of multi-functional spaces that are shared with the local community to actively encourage crosscultural and intergenerational learning opportunities. The academic precinct forms the central focus of this exhibition work, showing a four-level building that makes a strong and robust architectural statement on the future of education in the neighbourhood and aligns with broader research contexts across different education levels. The building includes learning spaces that are adaptable and flexible to support new approaches to pedagogy and promote a range of activities and experiences for the student cohort. A close focus on work-flows, traffic patterns, and activity levels generated the interior elements of the project to reflect current and projected requirements with inbuilt flexibility.
Unwrapping Education Design
Richmond High School CONNECT | Professional Development
Tuesday 27th of March 5-6pm Central Kitchen Hayball presents an introduction to contemporary and past educational design and thinking, as well as unpacking educational jargon. Presented by: Lisa Horton & Harry Nicholas
A presentation introducing modes of contemporary and past school design and thinking; unpacking the education paradigm.
The Athletics Precinct has been constructed, and provides competition grade netball courts, community facilities and public spaces. A Performing Arts Space with theatre, dance & drama studios, music practice room and a recording studio will be available for community use outside school hours, and the nearby Richmond Recreation Centre with pool and gym will be used by the school. Students will also use a food technology facility at the neighbouring Lynall Hall Community School. This ethos of communal and shared facilities sits at the heart of this project, and informed every step of the design process.
Richmond High School Multipurpose Facility
Richmond High School Academic Facility
Lynall Hall Community School
Program Stack
Lynall Hall
150m²
410m² 87m² 248m²
Learning Communities
1525m²
200m²
Learning Communities
2470m²
Learning Communities
1525m²
Library
492m²
Administration and Staff
566m²
81m²
Library
405m² 64m²
DATS
1201m²
Library
486m²
Administration and Staff
318m²
382m²
Administration and Staff
270m² 355m²
Specialist Areas
150m² 100m²
Internal Travel
925m²
External Travel Amenities
231m² 144m²
6613m² Standard Entitlement
Gym 971m²
Engineering External Travel Amenities
53m² 231m² 144m²
6613m² Program Reshuffle
Engineering Amenities
1221m²
Gym
231m²
External Travel
53m²
144m²
6613m² Proposed Distribution of Area
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DENTS STU 8 10
Learning Community Facilities Relationship Diagram
Presentation & Gathering 60m²
Conference
Reading Lounge
Study Pods
Learning Commons
Gallery
Conference
135m²
40m²
45m²
Practice Room
108 STUDENTS 03 | Y IT UN M Presentation & Gathering 60m²
Commons 140m²
Conference 40m²
Lockers
Seminar 25m²
100m²
Kitchen
Project Studio Study Booths
Bulk Store
45m²
60m²
Conference Reading Lounge Learning Study Pods Gallery
Shared Resources
Project Studio 45m²
Conference Reading Lounge Learning
Multipurpose Workshop
Staff Workspace & Meeting Room
Print Station
Commons 140m²
Conference 40m²
Lockers
Seminar 25m²
UDENTS 8 ST 10
SHARED SPACES
Toilet
Gallery
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Lockers
25m²
Study Pods
LEARNING CO MM UN ITY Presentation & Gathering
Project Studio
Seminar
CO M
53m²
LEARNING COM MU NI TY
Engineering
1326m²
LEAR NIN G
PAPE
1626m²
Specialist Areas
1001m²