Scotch College

The Wellbeing and Sports Centre provides Scotch College with a flexible learning facility that aligns with their progressive teaching and learning methodologies.  The project has three main components – well-being, courts and pools/gymnasium. The heart of the facility is the well-being component, which faces Blythewood Road at a scale that relates to existing residential houses across the road. The school campus frontage is grander and integrated into existing site levels and terraces down into the landscape through the amphitheatre. The pool and gym have a similar approach, the heights of the south façade are considered in relation to the existing olive hedge and residential context.

The project will be the first in South Australia (and one of just three in Australia) to reach Living Building Challenge certification. This simple framework outlines the ten “best practice” achievements that a building must reach to be considered sustainable under this certification. ​Alongside the typical water, energy, and materials concerns, the building must also evoke an emotional response, connect the indoors with the natural environment and be equitable.