Develop and deliver a staged master plan, CBGA application and documentation of a significant stage 1 learning hub for Catholic School Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) to reimagine all existing learning environments for contemporary learning outcomes.
A child’s school days will likely stay in their mind for their entire life.
A well-considered built environment can have a profoundly positive impact on a child’s experience of school; their desire to learn, to interact and engage with peers and teachers, can all be enhanced. We are constantly excited by the opportunity to create constructive contexts for this formative time of life.
Beginning with our first client in 1984, an Independent Christian School, we’ve been growing our experience and knowledge in this important area ever since.
Today, we have a dedicated team of 15 educational experts who are passionate about ensuring that our educational designs:
• Reflect the academic mission and values of the school
• Nurture the educational, social and spiritual growth and wellbeing of its students, staff and community
• Provide an engaging, comfortable and adaptable environment that supports all facets of school life and collaborative learning
• Create opportunities to engage students within agile learning environments
• Respond to environmental conditions and site constraints
• Optimise natural lighting, good air quality, appropriate acoustics, connections to outdoor and natural spaces
Castle Hill NSW
Develop and deliver a staged master plan, CBGA application and documentation of a significant stage 1 learning hub for Catholic School Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) to reimagine all existing learning environments for contemporary learning outcomes.
Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP)
New Yr 7 -12 School Campus Masterplan and construction of Yr 7 -10 Learning Hub, new carpark and associated external works
Completed November 2022
$19.5 million for Stage 1
Gilroy Catholic College is a co-educational high school located in Castle Hill, a north-western suburb of Sydney and is operated and managed by the Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese. Stanton Dahl Architects were approached to review and create a new Masterplan to address the growing enrolments in the area.
In reviewing the existing accommodation of the school, it was clear that classrooms built 3 decades prior are physically inadequate in meeting the ever-growing demands of contemporary learning pedagogy nor deal with the increasing enrolment pressures from the community, driven by growing density of population in the Hills district.
With the direction and vision of the client to increase from 6 to 8 streams, we brought about a 3 staged masterplan that relies on the alignment of client’s pedagogical philosophy, leadership, management, and operational life of the school with new opportunities provided.
A new 2 & 3 storey Secondary Inquiry Hub for Year 7 -10 consisting of 16 new double-sized General Learning Areas (GLA) as well as improved and expanded onsite carparking, with an outdoor amphitheatre and handball courts for student wellbeing were thus established as the scope for the first stage of the Masterplan after a stakeholder process which involved the client, school leadership, and its learning and operational executives.
The competing challenges brought on by the large student accommodation as well as Hills council’s building height limit and concerns for bulk and scale in a residential area became opportunities for siting and creating a new Inquiry Hub which have been thoughtfully designed to respond to the local residential context as well as addressing other operational and access issues such as a clear and identifiable Bus Bay and campus entrance, safe and accessible movement through the campus, whilst ensuring visual connectivity to allow supervision as well as opportunities for indoor and outdoor learning.
Adaptability is evident throughout the project, from large external glazed sliding doors which allows connectivity with outdoor verandahs through to learning settings in each room that caters to different learning support opportunities and collaborative scale.
With the emphasis for open outdoor and circulation areas to be utilised as social and wellbeing spaces, the long-term goal of the masterplan for Gilroy Catholic College is to create a learning environment that places learning as a highly visible and collaborative activity, a built landscape that fosters today’s learners to become well-rounded adults of tomorrow.
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Glenmore Park, NSW
Complete a site masterplan, CBGA application and documentation of a significant stage 1 and stage 2 redesign.
Yr's 7-12 School Masterplan and staged construction
Completed January 2020
$16.0 million for Stage 1
Caroline Chisholm College is a Yrs 7 - 12 girls school located in Glenmore Park in Western Sydney. Stanton Dahl has completed a site masterplan, CBGA application and documentation of a significant stage 1 build of a performance space, general learning environments and music, dance, drama learning environments. The project also includes the relocation of the canteen/cafe, refurbishment of 11 existing learning spaces to collaborative settings and the refurbishment of their visual art facilities to visual art learning studios. Stage 2 of the masterplan includes the complete redesign of the current TAS facilities to a collaborative innovation hub utilising access to textiles, wordwork, graphics and clean tech facilities.
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Wahroonga
Develop and deliver a staged master plan for the St Lucy’s school to reimagine all the existing learning environments to provide the school with new, safe, and supported learning spaces.
Yr's K-6 School Masterplan and staged construction
Completed September 2020
approx. $12.5 million
St Lucy’s is a K-6 school for students with intellectual disabilities. Stanton Dahl delivered a staged masterplan for the existing school at Wahroonga, taking into account heritage and conservation site restrictions. The masterplan reimagines all of the existing learning environments to provide the school with new, safe, and supported learning spaces that are agile and well equipped. Stanton Dahl has been engaged to deliver a 2 storey new building with basement carpark providing a range of learning spaces and the conversion of an existing heritage building into new administrative space.
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Caroline has over 19 years of local experience in the architectural design, documentation and construction with the last 13 years devoted to the development of quality educational and ecclesiastical buildings at Stanton Dahl Architects. In 2015, Caroline became head of the Stanton Dahl Education Sector and leads a team of 15 staff.
Through Caroline’s involvement in the education sector she has developed a passion for developing community and learning environments that support and encourage the social, educational and spiritual wellbeing of the users. Caroline is specifically interested in the delivery of environments that support all areas of school life from pedagogical outcomes & staff professional development to community development, identity, engagement and support.
Since joining Stanton Dahl in 2006, Caroline has established herself as a trusted and knowledgeable expert in the field of school architecture.
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