2022 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Te Raekura Redcliffs School
Conceived around the journey from Te Ihutai (the estuary) to Te Ana o Hineraki (Moa Bone Cave), this expressive community of buildings references and connect the school to its unique site and history. This narrative was used to guide the selection of materials; volcanic-coloured precast panels face Te Raekura, while wharf-like timber structures face Te Ihutai. Diverse building forms and materials create distinctive spaces and a village-like feeling, while illustrating the development of tamariki through their years at the school. This narrative is further advanced through clever use of differing site levels to create beautiful and discrete spaces – both inside and out. With its low carbon timber structure, large photovoltaic array, natural ventilation, and diversity of outdoor spaces for shade and shelter, this is a school that is bound to inspire.
- Practice
- Tennent Brown Architects
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
