This school transcends its indifferent surroundings with an architecture that is both welcoming and inclusive. The light that floods into the lobby illuminates spaces connected visually across a glazed courtyard and connecting corridor. The plan, while economic in programme, demonstrates hierarchy without exclusion, achieving interior clarity. Each component, material and colour satisfies both performance and aesthetic criteria; the result is spaces that are grounded and then layered with visual and sensory delight. This is an engaging and charming building, the product of a true collaboration between client and Architect.
Kimi Ora School Naenae




