Architect：Kerstin Thompson Architects

Location：Northcote VIC, Australia; | ;View Map

Project Year：2019

Category：Secondary Schools

School infrastructure is a community asset as much as it is an educational resource. So the issue of long term value and cultural legacy is critical. Northcote High School’s Performing Arts and VCE Centre is a counter to the lightweight shed that has become synonymous with delivering within strict state education budgets. It strives for lasting legacy via a formally and materially enduring building, grounded in the architectural heritage of its campus context. With an economy of language, it prioritises clarity of interior organisation, purity of form and material richness to promote the vitality and success of the school’s music and theatrical performance program. It also supports the broader community and forms an urban marker for Northcote, for generations to come. This new school is distinctly old school.

It’s functional and spatial organisation is structured by two elements: a red brick box, which forms the exterior envelope, and within this, loosely centred, a black brick box which holds the performance space. The remaining program occupies the space between the two revolving around the black box: music and performing arts including rehearsal areas on the ground and VCE teaching and learning spaces above.

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