ABSTRACT
Stanley Park High School’s particular and innovative pedagogy was key throughout the briefing process. Their approach required flexible learning and teaching spaces able to adapt to large groups of up to 90 students or traditional classes of 30. Central to their vision was a school that felt like a single campus despite the curriculum being split into three zones: World, Performance and Trade. Visual and physical links between the four schools are through the central atrium/learning street, thereby encouraging a strong, unified whole-school identity. The atrium is a learning and social space as well as for primary circulation. It is designed for flexible use including lectures, activities related to the studios, personalised learning, group working and hold whole school assemblies. The structural design of the school provides an open floorplate and regular column grid. This allows for future adaptability and subdivision either as traditional classrooms or as larger studios.
