Caroline Chisholm College Administration
The New Administration Building at Caroline Chisholm College’s girls campus celebrates femininity and its vast, often divergent attributes.
Boldly thrust towards the front of the site, sitting in the foreground of the existing school buildings, the New Administration Building engages with the street and broader community, announcing the College’s identity and its attitudes towards the important roles that women play within Caroline Chisholm College.
The outer shell of the building is concrete, strong and resilient in materiality but finely detailed with an imprinted triangle relief pattern giving the hard, raw material a specific softness and tactility.
The kinetic facade screen on the face of the building holds similar characteristics to the concrete. Decorative, detailed and deftly put together like a precious piece of jewellery.
Each individual steel triangle is perforated to filter light and delicately fixed to its frame which allows the whole facade to sway gently in the breeze. This movement gives the building a constant but ever changing ripple.
Sunlight is reflected at different angles creating a sparkle externally.
Internally the space is filled with dappled light, creating a calm and soft ambience within the building’s robust shell.
