St Marcellin Centre

Marist College Ashgrove

2021 - 2024

The St. Marcellin Centre is a robust architectural framework which seeks to embody the values of the Marist College Ashgrove community whilst providing agency for a shift in pedagogy within the Primary School.

Recognising Campus as a finite resource, we adopted a vertical school strategy.

By raising the building on a forest of columns and a cloistered edge of blades, We have created a significant Understorey. Initially an unbriefed space, this reservoir of deep shade presents a point of assembly.

The social spaces and connectivity of the new Primary Precinct are intended to engender a heightened sense of identity and autonomy, to foster a recognisable ‘Community within a Community’.

Notably, the external passively conditioned spaces constitute 30% of the plan and volume, and are an integral part of the experience of occupying the St Marcellin Centre.

The teaching and learning rooms are conceived as a series of interconnected subspaces offering fluid flexibility and choice in teaching and learning environments.

Builder: Stokes Wheeler

Project Manager: Steele Wrobel

Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones

Project Team: Paul Hotston, Hudson Smith, Alice Langholt, Monique Pousson, Lachlan Sweet & Jun Joo

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