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ABOVE LEFT AND RIGHT: ARCHITECTURAL RENDERS FOR NEW HOUSE ROOMS IN THE LANGUAGE CENTRE ADJOINING ST ANDREW’S SQUARE. CENTRE: ARCHITECTURAL PLANS
FOR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S RELOCATION TO THE LITHGOW CENTRE. BELOW LEFT: BUILDING WORKS TAKING PLACE IN THE LITHGOW CENTRE. BOTTOM LEFT: INTERIOR
ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S NEW HOME IN THE LITHGOW CENTRE.
HARKNESS
ROOM
NORTH INT
13 m²
NOT PART OF STAGE
01 SCOPE OF WORKS
25 m²
QUIET STUDY
14 m²
ENGLISH 02
ENGLISH 03
55 m²
63 m²
ENGLISH 01
61 m²
COLLAB
TEA
NOT PART OF STAGE
01 SCOPE OF WORKS
84 m²
14 m²
ENGLISH STAFF
ENGLISH 06
PRINT
61 m²
9 m²
COLLAB
15 m²
SOUTH INT
11 m²
PA
11 m²
ENGLISH 05
ENGLISH 04
55 m²
63 m²
HoD
18 m²
THE DOMINO EFFECT
CONTINUES
Project: Drawing Title: Drawing Number: Revision: Date:
SCOTCH COLLEGE PROPOSED LEVEL 1 ASK-21-02 7 09.09.2019
LITHGOW REFURBISHMENT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Scale:
1 : 200 @ A3
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Cox Architecture
Level 2, 167 Flinders Lane,
Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
T + 61 3 9650 3288
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www.coxarchitecture.com.au
The Scotch English department’s relocation to the
Lithgow Centre began at the conclusion of Term 1. Once
this has occurred, it will enable works to start, during
the midyear holidays, on the creation of six new House
Home Rooms: four on the ground floor of the Language
Centre facing St Andrew’s Square, and two at ground
level in the north-west corner of the main Quadrangle. It
is anticipated that the six Home Rooms will be ready for
use at the start of the school year, Term 1, 2021.
Head of English, Mr Ryan Johnstone, believes the
English department’s relocation to the Lithgow Centre
to be an excellent one academically, as it is ‘moving
closer to the heart of the School’. In his view, the move
will facilitate an opportunity ‘to renew and reshape
[the department’s] connection with the boys and other
departments’. They are particularly looking forward to
‘the increased number of open zones: the collaboration
tables, meeting rooms, a Harkness table for round-table
discussions and debate, and café-style seating areas’.
He says, ‘It’s a big step up from a single classroom
corridor around ‘E’ rooms in the Language Centre!’
The long-term plan is to create 12 House Home
Rooms around the School’s second quadrangle, St
Andrew’s Square. More immediately, this will involve
the construction of the initial six Home Rooms. Down
the track, however, four Home Rooms will occupy the
ground floor of the planned Maths Centre, and two in the
west wing of the main Quadrangle but positioned facing
St Andrew’s Square.
In addition to the Home Rooms in the Language
Centre, the Dean of Boarding, Dean of Students, the
Chaplain, and the Head of Upper School will take up
residency in new office spaces as part of this project.
The extensive refurbishment of the existing Language
Centre is premised on devising essential, up-to-date
meeting areas, a functional and flexible environment
aesthetically compatible with the Sir Zelman Cowen
Centre for Science, and includes the welcome addition
of toilet facilities available for Keon-Cohen Dining Hall
functions after hours.
It is no surprise that this part of the School is being
referred to as a new ‘hub’ of Scotch. In a decade which
perhaps rivals the intensity of the 1920s when the main
Quadrangle, Memorial Hall, the School Gymnasium (now
the Dining Hall) and a host of other developments came
into being, momentous changes are afoot.
A sincere thank you is extended to all those who have
invested in these transformative projects. As a result, a
whole new, vibrant nerve centre is about to emerge at
Scotch!
TIM SHEARER ('85) – DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT,
FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
www.scotch.vic.edu.au Great Scot
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