*스펙트럼 효과, 멜버른 스쿨 [ McBride Charles Ryan ] Stripy Melbourne school_mirrors the local skyline

달라스 브룩스 커뮤니티 초등학교 프로젝트의 독특한 파사드 디자인은 브로드미도우스 재건 프로젝트의 상징적인 이미지 구현과 더불어 이 지역의 전통적인 의상의 패턴을 재해석한 조적구축 방식으로 보여준다. 재건사업은 다음과 같은 과제들을 해결하기 위해 먼저 달라스 지역의 3개 초등학교를 하나의 밴드로 융합하는 작업을 시작한다. (지역적으로 소외된 계층의 소셜활동 증진 및 저소득층의 경제적 불균형 해소와 범죄예방) 그리고 여기에 교육과 지역문화를 통합하는 허브로써 다양한 퍼블릭 스페이스를 삽입시킨다. 학생 및 지역주민들을 위한 두개의 스포츠 홀, 커머셜 키친, 커뮤니티 가든, 성인교육 센터, 유아교육센터, 방송스튜디오 등 다양한 서비스 공간이 하나의 소도시를 형성, 독특한 스펙트럼 밴드로 구획된다. 

reviewed by SJ,오사

Dallas Brooks Community Primary School is an amalgamation of three local primary schools in Dallas, Broadmeadows, in the North of Melbourne. It is part of a number of public school developments in the area collectively referred to as the Broadmeadows Regeneration Project. Broadmeadows has a proud working class history however in recent times its strong manufacturing base has waned. Broadmeadows has also been a beneficiary of the latest wave of immigrants to Melbourne and recent immigrants from Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan compose greater than 60 per cent of the population. Dallas, in central Broadmeadows, is subject to these recent demographic changes. Dallas too also has been awarded the dubious honour of Melbourne's most financially underprivileged suburb.

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The Broadmeadows Regeneration Project is a Victorian government initiative aimed at producing positive social change in a community where the lack of community services, poverty, crime, and social marginalisation represent genuine challenges.

The Dallas Brooks school leaders were determined to not just develop a primary school but to realise a community hub – a birth to old age learning facility that could also supplement many of the pressing community needs of the suburb. They achieved this by not only the judicious use of available funding but by developing strategic local partnerships. To that end, and in addition to the typical primary school they have provided in this school two full sports halls for community uses, a commercial kitchen and community gardens, an adult education centre, a pre-school centre, a broadcasting studio and maternal and infant welfare facilities and services. They are now also developing two rugby pitches in their community park at the front of the school.

Broadmeadows, as the name suggests, lacks urbanism. For the architects it was important that this building provide some urban density and that it gave the new school presence and identity within the suburb.

The school acts as a walled city, protecting small tailored communal teaching spaces linked with open courtyards. The walled city metaphor is one that had relevance with many of the suburbs new ethnic groups. The ebullient brickwork patterning of the outer wall recalls the rich patterning of the traditional dress of some of these groups. The profile of the wall was developed by compressing the silhouetted imagery of the surrounding suburban fabric into this new composition. These strategies were an attempt to produce a new and inclusive architecture for this unique Melbourne community.

The wall is both functionally protective and a civic gesture – an invitation to participate in the shaping of Dallas' future. The project is a sensitive response to a community's needs, generating a unique educational environment, and producing a focal point for Dallas, both as a place of common ground, and as a generator for the suburb's future potential.

from  dezeen