2021 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Te Hohepa Kōhanga Reo
This gem of a building, which replaces a cold old classroom, is a ray of sunshine for this well-established community. A new star-shaped plan provides a clear progression for students, beginning with the rising sun for newborns and ending in the west for six-year-olds. A covered courtyard space in the warm heart of the building provides shelter and light, even on the greyest winter day. Each learning space has a special relationship to te rā, the sun, and colour is used extensively and unsparingly to express the tikanga and stories of the school. The project is appropriately scaled for even the smallest users, who can move freely into a range of enriching outdoor spaces.
- Practice
- Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Ltd
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
