Glen Eira College

We modernised and expanded this school. We built a new 3-storey building for Years 9 and 10 with a landscaped rooftop, located on the school’s netball courts on the corner of Miriam St and Booran Rd. We also upgraded the BER Language Centre.

These upgrades create modern learning environments and 250 extra places for local students.

Design elements

Each level of the new middle school has a central shared informal learning and circulation space connecting to classrooms and science labs. These central learning spaces can be used for flexible teaching, informal study and small group work. Each level is connected by internal and external staircases and has staff and student toilets.

We connected the ground floor classrooms to new landscaped gardens and seating areas. The upper levels have covered balconies. The landscaped rooftop breakout space has seating and gathering spaces for students.

We used colours and materials throughout the building that reflect Glen Eira College’s primary colours of grey, red, black and white, as well as the red bluff sandstone geology of the local area.

We built a sensory garden, adjacent to the wellbeing centre, that incorporates a kitchen garden and outdoor dining area.

We upgraded the school. This included refurbishing learning spaces in a flexible and connected way and grouping junior classes and senior classes together to give the students a sense of their own community.

We also extended the sports centre with a single-court competition-grade gymnasium.​

The canteen was also demolished and relocated.