Tyndale
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Tyndale Christian School
Funded as part of the Nation Building stimulus package, the new Special Education Centre at Tyndale Christian School will be one of the only BER buildings in Australia to cater for physically and intellectually disabled students from reception to year eight. The facility sits adjacent the existing middle and junior school and overlooks the middle school oval to the north-west.
Middle School (The Zone) and Junior School (Good Learning Centre) classes are kept separate and independent at either end of the building, with facilities for counselling, physiotherapy, speech therapists, and visiting specialists, a life skills or independent living centre in the middle. The whole of school first aid centre, and a facility for new arrivals (to the school and country) is also incorporated.
The strong emphasis on equality and community spirit is reflected in the feature brickwork patterns that wrap the three main volumes, picking up on existing brickwork colours and drawing with a pixilation-type technique to create a unique identity for each entry to the centre.
The Junior school area (The Good Learning Centre) has large diagonal stripes with random tilt-shifts or breaks, as if the building has been shook or jilted, reminiscent of a lighting strike. The mid-section of the facility houses spaces for specialists in speech, physiotherapy and counselling as well as a life skills centre, and is identified by a 'space invaders' type pattern. The middle school (or The Zone) pattern is reminiscent of silted layers of earth, or perhaps a contour map.
