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Any moments of fear, or high anxiety?
When the first concrete panels went up there was a sort
of sigh of horror around the school. The general sentiment
was: “Is that what we’re getting, a factory?” But once
the outer skin went on, everyone was just delighted.
It demonstrates how you can transform a dumb concrete
box into a shimmering delight. It’s typical of the work
of our practice. It’s disciplined and nuanced, rather than
appearing to be try-hard. There’s a lot of sampling and
trialing with all of our materials.
Any other influences of note?
What influenced this almost more than those earlier
projects is our freeway work. We’ve done a lot of very
large-scale walls in a freeway setting and to hold one
idea effectively and powerfully is quite exciting.
PROJECT
School for Performing Arts
and Creative Education
GLAZIER:
Menzel Glass
WINDOW FABRICATOR:
CLIENT
West Coast Windows
ARCHITECT
Marshall Day
Geelong Grammar School
Peter Elliott Architecture
+ Urban Design
PROJECT TEAM
Peter Elliott, Jude Doyle,
Geoff Barton, Daniel Bennetts,
Juliet Maxsted, Jonathon Wong,
Amy Hallett, Justin Mallia
BUILDER
ISIS Group Australia
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
ARUP
THEATRE & ACOUSTIC CONSULTANTS
PRINCIPAL GLAZING RESOURCE
Viridian
PRINCIPAL GLASS COMPONENTS
Viridian Profilit™
Viridian VFloat™
Viridian SolTech™
Viridian Seraphic™ Standard
Low-iron Colour-back glass in
Night Sky & Brilliant White
on SuperClear™ TC
BUDGET
$17.5 million