Blight Rayner Architecture created the School’s master plan, creating a range of precincts that are easier to manage and operate.
Located within the northern portion of the campus, the Sports Precinct represents Stage 1 of the master plan’s delivery.
The precinct features:
- a water polo sized heated swimming pool with two 50m lanes
- tennis courts with lights
- gymnasium with an oak sprung floor
- a strength and conditioning gym
- an indoor climbing wall featuring seven belay stations and 76m2 of climbing
- a dedicated ergometer room to support rowing and modern health and physical education classrooms
The swimming pool and surrounding terraces are covered by a retractable shade sail to allow the use of the pool year-round.
An important outcome of the facility was to enhance connection, a key influence in the enhancement of student wellbeing.
Award-winning architects Blight Rayner delivered on the School’s design brief creating this sense of connection with moveable walls, and an indoor/outdoor flow afforded by an enormous panel lift wall that connects the indoor gymnasium to the outdoor tennis courts.
The Blight Rayner design creates an abundance of natural light into the precinct, fulfilling the School’s philosophy to be more sustainable.
The sports hall is clad in a translucent polycarbonate that allows daylight penetration with the base able to be opened out to adjoining multi-sports courts.
The design also incorporates green backdrops with open, flat green spaces and vertical greenery.
The various open-air courts and pool spaces are defined by lightweight solid and perforated screens that form outdoor rooms.
Many of the indoor areas open up to these spaces thereby enabling variable teaching settings between inside and outside.
This new consolidated sports complex is designed to inspire students to maximise their engagement and interest in both sports and sports health, and to regard the precinct as both a sports and recreational environment within the School.
Project Details
Project Size – 7,820 m2
Completion Date – 2020
Project Details
Architecture
Blight Rayner Architecture
Blight Rayner Architecture was formed in Brisbane by Jayson Blight and Michael Rayner, both former principal directors of a renowned national practice.
The firm’s purpose is to run a different kind of practice, one where the Directors are continuously ‘hands-on’ in design and production, rather than managers and overseers of an extensive range of projects.
Construction
Tomkins Commercial
Tomkins is a family-owned and operated construction company that has been delivering quality building solutions across the industry for nearly 70 years. They design and construct a wide variety of residential, commercial, industrial, and retail projects including special heritage ventures.
Photography
Christopher Frederick Jones
Christopher is a highly-regarded architectural photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.
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