New South Wales
The SPEC provides Shore School with state-of-the-art new teaching spaces including flexible learning spaces for PDHPE and Christian Studies, an aquatic centre, a multi-purpose sports hall, weights and cardio training and a gymnastics hall.
The precinct creates a key pedestrian vertical circulation ‘spine’ connecting Hunter Crescent through to the campus to the north. This spine separates the main sports teaching areas, the aquatic to the west and the dry sports to the east, set into the steep topography of the site limiting the impact on the adjacent neighbourhood.
The internal flexible classrooms and outdoor learning terraces overlook the sports precinct below. The roof forms are a series of barrel vaults with roof-lights to maximise natural lighting whilst retaining views to the harbour from the campus.
Sustainability was at the core of the design brief with low energy plant, passive design and biophilia inherent to the complex as a whole.
The RAI Grant Physical Education Centre allows all students at Shore School the access to world class facilities in their PDHPE and Sporting programmes.
With wellbeing such an important part of adolescent development, the RAI Grant Centre gives students the ability to integrate health and wellbeing activities into their everyday activities at Shore. The extensive scale of these facilities allows the flexibility for students to integrate movement into their daily lives, giving boys of all abilities the opportunity to balance their academic and physical pursuits in this innovative environment.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
