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High Rise Schools Putting Students First FEATURE ARTICLE High rise schools Putting students first Felicity Lewis & Diana Griffiths FPIA CPP, Founding Directors, Studio GL 2017 has transformed the way we envisage the future use of limited funding. But we should not underestimate the challenges. This type of schools of NSW. Facilities of the past were rarely more than school is new to NSW and to Australia and three storeys, but now the sky is the limit. In the enthusiasm we do not yet have the planning controls to embrace the option of “high rise” schools, are the needs in place or know the “rules of thumb” that of students still integral to the new planning framework? should inform their development. A healthy and safe school environment To achieve the best learning outcomes The year in review Infrastructure Contribution (SIC) and schools should be designed for purpose A striking trend in 2017 has been the delivered via a Planning Agreement5. and focused around the needs of the introduction of the high-rise school. In The new way students. Circulation spaces are an NSW this is a Sydney-centric phenomenon integral part of the learning environment driven by escalating land costs, forcing Delivering schools that use limited and need to encourage positive interaction. the consolidation of schools within their resources more productively can be Ceiling heights are also critical and it is current boundaries to meet the rapidly a successful strategy. Classrooms in desirable that classrooms, and essential growing needs of communities undergoing multistorey buildings (with lifts) and that halls, gymnasiums and the like, have urban renewal. stairs servicing 2-4 storeys are a more sections of higher and raked ceilings to effective way of using land than single enable vigorous use and mitigate potential It can be argued this trend is not new. level classrooms. The provision of shared acoustic challenges. As we move to a high- Schools in Victorian times were often 2 to spaces that can function as centres for rise model this knowledge becomes more 3 storeys and St Andrews Cathedral School adult learning in the evening, that provide critical particularly if schools are located is within a 14 storey building in the centre a venue for markets on the weekend, within much larger multi-storey multi- of Sydney’s CBD. The challenge we are that share halls and open space with the use buildings. We do not have basic safety now facing is that whilst our understanding community, are a more effective use of standards in place yet, for example we do of what makes a low-rise school limited land and enable more efficient not know what fire stairs are required to successful from a planning interface evacuate a 7 year old in a high rise primary perspective has been comprehensively school or how much longer they will take tested, this new “high rise” model has not. than an adult. Case studies and examples The school environment also encompasses A recent example is Arthur Phillip High both internal and external spaces. The School (APHS), a new 17 storey high Interim Guideline for Development school and Parramatta Primary School near Rail Corridors and Busy Roads (PPS), a new 4 storey primary school notes “Strategic site selection from the 1 currently being built in Parramatta . perspective of road and rail corridors Both schools have been designed by for schools and childcare centres is Grimshaw Architects in association with particularly important as young people are BVN Architecture, to be “a showcase for generally more sensitive to the effects of the delivery of multi-storey education noise and adverse air quality than adults”6. facilities in response to metropolitan The Design Guide for Schools7 also notes 2 Sydney’s increasing residential density” . ”Schools should include appropriate, Another example is the private vertical efficient, stage and age appropriate indoor high school proposed for the Ivanhoe and outdoor learning and play spaces, Estate, Macquarie Park, a Communities access to sunlight, natural ventilation, 3 Plus project . The school is to be within outlook, visual and acoustic privacy, a building which will also house a storage and service areas”. Community Centre with a hall, gymnasium and pool. A further example is proposed Effective, whole of life, flexible and in Rhodes4, where floorspace for a new adaptive primary school may be linked to a mixed We cannot foretell how we will be Figure 2: Outdoor spaces provide opportunities use development within the Rhodes East for outdoor learning, socialising and teaching the students of the future. We Gateway site and partially funded by State collaboration. (Source: Studio GL 2016) do know that increasingly the focus is 10 | DECEMBER 2017 | newplanner FEATURE on providing choice, so that students can access learning in a manner that is suited to their needs. Flexibility and resilience FEATURE ARTICLE is necessary, to allow for the inevitable changes that will be required during the life of school facilities, and this will escalate article into the future. The acting president of the NSW Teachers High rise schools Federation Joan Lemaire says going Putting students first high is fine, but only if it is done right. “You need to have strong consultation Felicity Lewis & Diana Griffiths FPIA CPP, Founding Directors, Studio GL with the teachers — you can’t limit how teachers will teach by the way you build a room,” she says. “Without having proper consultation, you can build something that looks good but has a whole range of problems.”8 Equitable and efficient High-rise schools are expensive to build. Initially APHS was expected to cost “more than $100 million”, however by May 2017 it was reported that the school is expected to cost “$252 million”9, substantially higher than the cost of a similar sized low-rise school. When planning the future schools of NSW Figure 1: Ceiling heights play an important role in effective school design (Source: Studio GL 2016) we need to be careful that by reducing one cost (land) another cost (building) predominantly qualitative not quantitative, Endnotes does not escalate, nor should design creating a need to develop greater detail 1 Bleby, M, 2016 ‘School in the sky? Parramatta’s quality be sacrificed to balance the Arthur Phillip High first public NSW high-rise relating to the design requirements for school’ Financial Review 22 Jan 2016 budget. A fundamental principle of public successful high-rise schools. This will 2 http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-the- education is that all students should have ensure that high rise schools have the department/our-reforms/innovative-education- equal access to a quality educational successful-students/newschools/parramatta/ flexibility, adaptability and design features arthur-phillip-redevelopment, accessed 26 Oct environment and by pursuing a more- to enable the creation of healthy and 2017. Environmental3 costly model there is a risk that a few www.communitiesplus.com.au/#Ivanhoe safe learning environments for future 4 See: www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your- developments will consume funding to generations. Resourcesarea/Priority-Growth-Areas-and-Precincts/ the detriment of others. EnvironmentalRhodes-East Diana Griffithsis a skilled urban designer 5 The Department of Planning and Environment Conclusion Managementand City of Canada Bay Council, 2017 Rhodes with 25 years experience inResources urban design, East Priority Precinct Investigation Area Unless you have school age children or architecture and strategic planning. Diana Planning Report 6 work in education or school design it is is a fellow of the Planning Institute of NSW Department of Planning, 2008, ManagementERM is one of theDevelopmentEnvironmental world’s Near leading Rail Corridors providers and Busy of rare to think about schools, but they are Australia (NSW). environmental, Roadssocial – Interimand Guidelineplanning consulting a critical component of the future. 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