Kardinia International College Senior Centre / Learning Commons | James Deans & Associates
Bell Post Hill / Australia / 2015
The new learning commons at Kardinia International College
was created to provide a learning environment for the 21st Century.
The buildings are about learning now and flexibility for the future.
The concept of a stand-alone library was revisited to include Information Technology
,Arts, Library, resources, classrooms meeting rooms and media teachers all integrated.
The building allows for the accommodation of 2000 students to visit the buildings throughout the day
to connect with the world and share learning practices, principles and social media interaction.
This is within flexible or purpose made spaces offering choice.
The building form is simple yet complex incorporating two stand-alone building connected by a floating
metallic ribbon which relates the building while offering clerestory light internally and external covered learning
spaces externally.
The building entices students and teachers alike to try to determine what do we really know about our home,
the world.
The new learning commons at Kardinia International College was created to provide a learning environment for the 21st Century. The buildings are about learning now and flexibility for the future. The concept of a stand-alone library was revisited to include Information Technology ,Arts, Library, resources, classrooms meeting rooms and media teachers all integrated. The building allows for the accommodation of 2000 students to visit the buildings throughout the day to...
- Year 2015
- Work started in 2014
- Work finished in 2015
- Main structure Mixed structure
- Client Kardinis International College
- Contractor Melbcon P/L
- Status Completed works
- Type Schools/Institutes / Interior Design / Lighting Design
- Websitehttp://www.jdarchitects.com.au/
- Websitehttp://thinkstrategicforschools.com/blog/meeting-needs-21st-century-learners
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