St Marcellin Centre | Phorm architecture + design

St Marcellin Centre | Phorm architecture + design | Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones

2025 National Architecture Awards Program

St Marcellin Centre | Phorm architecture + design

Traditional Land Owners

Turrbul and Yuggera Peoples

Year
2025
Chapter

Queensland

Region

Brisbane

Category
COLORBOND庐 Award for Steel Architecture
Educational Architecture
EmAGN Project Award
Builder
Stokes Wheeler Pty Ltd
Photographer
Christopher Frederick Jones
Media summary

The St. Marcellin Centre is a robust architectural framework which seeks to embody the values of the Marist College Ashgrove community whilst providing agency for a shift in pedagogy within the Primary School.

By raising the building on a forest of columns and a cloistered edge of blades, We have created a significant Understorey. Initially an unbriefed space, this reservoir of deep shade presents a point of assembly.

The social spaces and connectivity of the new Primary Precinct are intended to engender a heightened sense of identity and autonomy, to foster a recognisable 鈥楥ommunity within a Community鈥.

Notably, the external passively conditioned spaces constitute 30% of the plan and volume of the St Marcellin Centre and are an integral part of the experience of occupying the Building.

The teaching and learning Rooms are conceived as a series of interconnected subspaces offering fluid flexibility and choice in teaching and learning environments.

Creating exceptional buildings for the College demonstrates the value we place on the boys鈥 learning and development. The St Marcellin Centre creates a sense of place for the Primary cohort, providing a safe learning environment and opportunities to engage confidently with the broader campus.
Adaptive learning spaces support flexibility in pedagogy; the staff feel their practice is respected and valued by these quality teaching spaces. There is a quiet nobility in centring our shared purpose.

鈥淭he spaces have been carefully designed and considered for collaboration, engagement, and personalised support for all our students.鈥 -Acting Head of Teaching and Learning (Primary).

Project Practice Team

Paul Hotston, Project Architect
Hudson Smith, Architectural Designer: Design/Documentation/Consultant Co-ordination/Site
Alice Langholt, Graduate of Architecture
Monique Pousson, Graduate of Architecture
Lachlan Sweet, Graduate of Architecture
Jun Joo, Documentation Architect

Project Consultant and Construction Team

Steele Wrobel, Project Manager
Edge Consulting Engineers, Structural Engineer
DTS, Building Surveyor
Steele Wrobel, Cost Consultant
JHA, Electrical Consultant
Edge Consulting Engineers, Civil Consultant
JHA, Mechanical Engineer
Compass Consulting, Hydraulic Consultant
Bligh Tanner, Facade Engineer
WSP, Fire Engineer
McKenzie Group, Certifier
Urbicus, Town Planner
BMC Traffic, Traffic Engineer

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