St Mary’s Administration

By Kelly Architects

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Saint Mary’s project involved the construction of a new administration and staff resource area along with major refurbishments to the existing classroom spaces and neighbouring grounds. The former entry to the school was small in scale to the other buildings and hidden from view. This project sought to create a clear school entry and modernise the learning spaces within.

The sweeping curve of the staff room calls visitors towards the main entry and allows for passive vision over visitors from the staff inside as they approach the school. Upstairs walls between existing classrooms have been replaced with glass sliding doors to allow clear vision throughout all learning spaces encouraging a community of learners between the 100 students that occupy that level.

The Foundation classroom, originally a convent, sits to the right and is connected to the main school building via this administration building addition. Red brick was chosen for the administration building to match the old convent exterior and give the new building a sense of place within the context of 150 year old site.

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Kelly Architects is a Geelong based architectural practice with a strong connection and on-going support to rural communities and not-for-profit organisations.

Our projects span from Edenhope at the states Western boarder to Sale, deep in the Eastern Gippsland region.
The majority of our completed work is in South West Victoria and Melbourne’s outer Eastern Suburbs.

Our major projects are primary schools, health care facilities and community buildings. We work with communities that value their own talents, culture and environment, be they education providers, health care providers, local government councils or volunteer groups.

We have a reputation of strong listening and guidance to community groups through engagement workshops and forming personal relationships with our clients. Evening workshops were conducted at Dunkeld, Edenhope and Derrinallum for their projects were volunteers were most available outside of regular business hours. Weekend discussions suited the staff and parent groups of St Michael’s Primary School Berwick and St John’s Primary School Dennington. Our projects become of personal interest to us and we become part of the community we work with.

At ArchiPro we recognise and acknowledge the existing, original and ancient connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands and waterways across the Australian continent. We pay our respects to the elders past and present. We commit to working together to build a prosperous and inclusive Australia.