2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Te Aratai College
One of the last redevelopments under the Ōtautahi Christchurch schools Earthquake Repair programme, this transformative project has not only shifted educational architecture to the next level, it has also created a facility for the local community. The two-level interconnected learning areas are especially well considered, allowing a diverse range of pedagogical approaches. Arranged around a light-filled circulation atrium, shared, collaborative learning spaces respond to their adjacent, specialist learning spaces with an efficient design that lifts the soul. The dramatic change this campus has made to the local streetscape is extremely positive. From its welcoming entrance to attractively developed external areas flanked by cloistered overhangs echoing the Oxbridge quadrangle architecture, this school engages with its community.
- Practice
- Architectus
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
