Kurrajong Building
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THE KURRAJONG BUILDING - A New Centre for Learning at Barker College
The Building
The building has been designed to integrate into the existing environment at Barker where the entire main campus has been designated by Hornsby Council as an item of heritage significance. The shape of the building follows the natural contours of the building site and although of 5 storeys, its apparent effective height has been kept to 3 storeys by building into the natural land slope.
The building provides new accommodation for the School's Departments of English, Drama, Learning Support and Religious Studies. There are 23 Classrooms, 2 Lecture Theatres and approximately 10 other significant teaching spaces in the form of tutorial rooms, seminar and group study areas.
Most internal walls are non-load bearing to provide for flexibility of spaces and future changes as the need arises.
Austral 'Shorthorn Medium Mix' dry pressed clay face bricks laid in 'Off White' cement mortar have been used for external face brickwork which was designed to blend with the brickwork theme of the existing school buildings with the intricate details repeating the decorative ornamental brickwork of those buildings.
A conscious effort was made from the early outset of preparing sketch designs to provide an environmentally sustainable building.
The Project Team
Client: Barker College, Hornsby
Architect: Priestleys Architects
Builder: Zadro Constructions Pty. Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Woolacott Hale Corlett & Jumikis Consulting Engineers Pty. Ltd.
Masonry Contractor: Peter Black Bricklaying
Brick manufacturer Austral Bricks
