Lemonwood Grove School
By CO-STUDIO
Built on a 10-acre site its location was chosen to cater for the anticipated population growth in southern Rolleston, particularly around the new Faringdon residential development.
The school caters for year 1-8 students and currently has capacity for 400 students. Future plans include a further extension to take up to 750 students. Work has started on a new Special Needs Unit which will service the wider Rolleston area. CO-STUDIO's design strongly reflects the school’s requirement for innovative and open-plan shared learning spaces. Students have a variety of environments to learn in from sitting snugly in brightly coloured window boxes to a tiered seating area. These spaces are housed in single-storey buildings with low pitched roofs punctuated with skylights to allow as much natural light as possible.
CO-STUDIO partnered with Southbase Construction to deliver this project as part of the innovation model for the Ministry of Education. A three-stage masterplan providing three new 900m2 teaching blocks. This is part of the innovation model schools which are 1.5 storeys with clerestory windows, steel portal frame and profiled metal warm roof and warm wall construction. Stage one was delivered in 2017, stage two in 2022, with stage three due for commencement in early 2023.
Our BIM model was detailed to a typical LOD 300, leveraging off our iteratively developed standardised design from the innovation model. The efficiencies found within this model and BIM approach has supported the expedited programme.
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CO-STUDIO is our architecture practice with a shifted emphasis to solving built environment problems with people. This people-centric approach is inspired by the words of a Pritzker Prize winning architect Glenn Murcutt, describing the best approach to architecture: “We don’t design buildings. We discover them”. This inspired our motto:
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