Auckland Grammar School Augusta Building
By Architectus
The Augusta Building is located at the heart of the Auckland Grammar School campus. The project helps consolidate teaching activities while creating new circulation links with the historic Californian style Main Building.
The building is arranged in a linear form over four levels and contains 12 classrooms, offices and resource spaces. Learning spaces are entered at grade and, for the uppers levels, from an external circulation spine that follows the southern edge of the building and links to the Main Building via a bridge at level two.
The bridge is suspended from the new building by pairs of steel chords to avoid stressing the heritage fabric of the Main Building and to provide seismic separation between the structures.
Brick veneer cladding and projecting canopies and roof lines relate to the Main Building and reference other more recent projects on the campus. The learning spaces feature large areas of glazing to the south and shielded strips of glazing to the north which provide high levels of natural diffused light. The spaces offer a high level of technical infrastructure to support the pedagogy of Auckland Grammar School.
A new kitchen and tuckshop located at the ground level of the building offers a stadium style self-service system for students. The tuckshop is accessed off a sheltered landscaped terrace created between Augusta and the Main Building.
Location:
Auckland
Completion:
2015
Professionals used in
Auckland Grammar School Augusta Building
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Architectus is an architecture and urbanism practice designing places and spaces tuned to their communities, context and culture. Advocates for integrated design, we apply a rigorous and tailored approach to create environments that are inspiring and enduring.
For over 30 years, we have been realising innovative and bespoke projects around Aotearoa New Zealand, shaping precincts and campuses with people and sustainability at their heart. Through a collaborative and integrated approach, we have had many successful joint ventures with local and international partners, and we enjoy a strong relationship with our associated studios in Australia.
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We believe architecture begins with a social agenda. It must nurture and grow communities and individuals, and enhance its neighbourhood and city. Appropriate, efficient and elegant architecture for today becomes the urban fabric of the future – we design for this longevity, to create places that will serve generations to come.
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While a good project must firstly solve practical needs and be viable, a truly great project must embody a community’s broader cultural context: its urban and architectural setting, its local geography and ecology, and the stories of its people. The more meaningful a place becomes through a true sense of belonging, the greater the value and longevity it has for its community.
We believe placemaking in Aotearoa is grounded in a bicultural creative process. We partner with mana whenua to embed their aspirations and cultural narratives across functional, ceremonial, spatial and artistic dimensions.
Underpinning these human stories is our responsibility to be judicious with natural resources. Environmentally sensitive architecture requires us to be energy-efficient and space-efficient, and to use low-carbon materials and ethically sourced products.
This is a holistic approach that embeds our practice in a continuum of artistic and technical progress, so the architecture we are responsible for will be relevant for decades to come.
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