Rainbow Street School

Client: NSW Department of Education This renewal of an existing primary school (1923) provides 40 Home Bases including four special needs facilities for 1000 students. The interior design within the home bases provided feature ceilings to fixed spaces including booth areas and withdrawal rooms whilst keeping overall interior design finishes and materials less defined for the other areas to allow for reconfiguration of flexible furniture to suit required learning settings at any one time. Pinboards and finishes to loose furniture provide differing themes of colour throughout the home bases.  TKD Architects worked with a specialist educational consultant to design learning spaces addressing new pedagogy advances providing a range of collaborative and directed learning environments. The design extends the current school hall, introduces a new Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA), a canteen and an Out of School House (OOSH). facility. Rainbow Street also provides 31 new classrooms including four special purpose spaces. There is a dramatic increase in the size of the outdoor play space with landscaped areas for passive play, active sport and outdoor learning. Photography: Tyrone Branigan, Tom Ferguson, and TKD Architects