Located in one of Ballarat’s faster growing suburbs, the Steiner School has been an important part of the township’s educational scene for the last 15 years. While the main building, built in the 1980s, comprising classrooms, staff rooms and administration areas together with a reception area, required revamping, the brief to Here Studio was for a new standalone performance, dance and music rooms – referred to as ‘Eurythmy’, a term originated by the Steiner School as an expressive movement of art.
Here Studio was keen to develop this expression through the architecture – with a new build that’s pentagon in shape and is partially constructed of a curvaceous mud brick wall that provides both acoustic and thermal control (a relatively busy thoroughfare is located nearby).
As fluid, is the expression and arrangement of the interior spaces, with an open plan performance space, an indoor/outdoor kitchen that includes a canteen-style window, three separate music rooms, amenities and storage areas. And rather than segment the main performance space with fixed walls, there are a series of curtains than can easily be drawn open when larger areas are required. Here Studio drew inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel from the 1950s - hence there are a series of coloured glass windows. Radially sawn timber, expressed mudbrick walls, timber floors, trusses and beams, along with a plywood ceiling, create a sense of honesty in the way materials have been both fully expressed and finely ‘stitched’ together.
Unlike the main performance area that features a warm and earthy palette, the three enclosed music rooms, with their acoustically treated walls, have their own identity, with each one having its own colour scheme – pink, green or blue. The kitchen, which is regularly used for social events, is as colourful with a sienna orange ceiling and blue linoleum floor. While the Steiner School is a non-domestic project, being a relatively modest development meant that domestic builders in the Ballarat region could be called upon, reducing the cost and time required that often comes with larger educational architectural projects.
Located in one of Ballarat’s faster growing suburbs, the Steiner School has been an important part of the township’s educational scene for the last 15 years. While the main building, built in the 1980s, comprising classrooms, staff rooms and administration areas together with a reception area, required revamping, the brief to Here Studio was for a new standalone performance, dance and music rooms – referred to as ‘Eurythmy’, a term originated by the Steiner School as an expressive movement of art.
Here Studio was keen to develop this expression through the architecture – with a new build that’s pentagon in shape and is partially constructed of a curvaceous mud brick wall that provides both acoustic and thermal control (a relatively busy thoroughfare is located nearby).
As fluid, is the expression and arrangement of the interior spaces, with an open plan performance space, an indoor/outdoor kitchen that includes a canteen-style window, three separate music rooms, amenities and storage areas. And rather than segment the main performance space with fixed walls, there are a series of curtains than can easily be drawn open when larger areas are required. Here Studio drew inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel from the 1950s - hence there are a series of coloured glass windows. Radially sawn timber, expressed mudbrick walls, timber floors, trusses and beams, along with a plywood ceiling, create a sense of honesty in the way materials have been both fully expressed and finely ‘stitched’ together.
Unlike the main performance area that features a warm and earthy palette, the three enclosed music rooms, with their acoustically treated walls, have their own identity, with each one having its own colour scheme – pink, green or blue. The kitchen, which is regularly used for social events, is as colourful with a sienna orange ceiling and blue linoleum floor. While the Steiner School is a non-domestic project, being a relatively modest development meant that domestic builders in the Ballarat region could be called upon, reducing the cost and time required that often comes with larger educational architectural projects.
Located in one of Ballarat’s faster growing suburbs, the Steiner School has been an important part of the township’s educational scene for the last 15 years. While the main building, built in the 1980s, comprising classrooms, staff rooms and administration areas together with a reception area, required revamping, the brief to Here Studio was for a new standalone performance, dance and music rooms – referred to as ‘Eurythmy’, a term originated by the Steiner School as an expressive movement of art.
Here Studio was keen to develop this expression through the architecture – with a new build that’s pentagon in shape and is partially constructed of a curvaceous mud brick wall that provides both acoustic and thermal control (a relatively busy thoroughfare is located nearby).
As fluid, is the expression and arrangement of the interior spaces, with an open plan performance space, an indoor/outdoor kitchen that includes a canteen-style window, three separate music rooms, amenities and storage areas. And rather than segment the main performance space with fixed walls, there are a series of curtains than can easily be drawn open when larger areas are required. Here Studio drew inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel from the 1950s - hence there are a series of coloured glass windows. Radially sawn timber, expressed mudbrick walls, timber floors, trusses and beams, along with a plywood ceiling, create a sense of honesty in the way materials have been both fully expressed and finely ‘stitched’ together.
Unlike the main performance area that features a warm and earthy palette, the three enclosed music rooms, with their acoustically treated walls, have their own identity, with each one having its own colour scheme – pink, green or blue. The kitchen, which is regularly used for social events, is as colourful with a sienna orange ceiling and blue linoleum floor. While the Steiner School is a non-domestic project, being a relatively modest development meant that domestic builders in the Ballarat region could be called upon, reducing the cost and time required that often comes with larger educational architectural projects.
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