EXPLORING HIGH DENSITY LOW RISE

Hills Academy Early Learning Centre

Location

North Rocks

Completion

2022

Type

Public

Traditional Custodians

Darug

Located on a sloping site in North Rocks, our brief was for a new childcare to accommodate 99 children in a terraced centre with basement parking. Working with the natural terrain, we developed a concept of a dense hillside village, characterised by double storey childcare buildings and terraced gardens permitting direct and level access between all indoor and outdoor play spaces.

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The footprint of the tightly scaled buildings responds to the scale of the surrounding residential neighbourhood. The language of a clustering of distinct forms creates a campus of buildings, allowing a greater community engagement within the childcare campus nestled into its suburban landscape.

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Credits

Team

Andrew Burges, Chris Mullaney, Louise Lovmand, Peter Ewald-Rice, Camilla Phillips, Min Dark, Eric Ye, Charles Choi

Landscape Architect

Sibling Architecture

Andrew Burges Architects

32/61 Marlborough St
Surry Hills NSW 2010

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