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The excellence of this building can be
accounted for on many registers.
Its sustainability credentials are significant
and include sensitive site positioning, the
use of life cycle cost benefit considerations,
the demand for natural light and ventilation,
energy conservation and performance criteria,
and the substantial reuse of roof captured rain
water. Formally, the building acknowledges
the thermodynamic modelling used in the
development of the internal environmental
performance of the building.
In relation to its urban context the project
achieves significant gains for the school
through the creation of a nuanced and
renewed relationship to Ada Avenue to the
east. The significant height demand of sports
such as netball, indoor tennis and basketball
has been carefully addressed and remediated
through the use of façades treated with
louvers and screens.
This project’s real achievement however is in
its creation of incredibly comfortable spaces
to inhabit, which the housing of school sports
facilities typically does not support. Internally
the building is visually warm and day lit, and a
visual and sensorial connection to the outside
is constant. Natural cross ventilation ensures
that both the sound and the scent of the blue
gum forest is never far from the game, while
the soaring height of the interior spaces are
both inspiring and engaging.
Photo: Tyrone Branigan
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
WILLIAM E KEMP AWARD
Abbotsleigh Multi-purpose Assembly and Sports Hall and Sports Field
AJ+C
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