Hume Central Secondary College – Town Park Campus

The new facility amalgamates Years 10 to 12 from three schools in the Broadmeadows area. It also accommodates 16-18 year old transition students from Hume Valley School, which is a school for students with mild physical, intellectual and behavioural conditions.

Project Details

Architects
Gregory Burgess Architects

Address
60-78 Tanderrum Way Broadmeadows Victoria, 3047

Submitter
New Learning Environments: Rubida Research

Cost
$18m

Photographer
Gregory Burgess

Project Overview

The Broadmeadows context is complex, predominantly due to generational poverty, a tradition of underachievement and an often poorly harmonised multi-cultural community. As a part of the Blueprint for Government Schools, Building Futures and Broadmeadows Regeneration Project initiatives, Broadmeadows Secondary College, Erinbank Secondary College, Hillcrest Secondary College and a small cohort of senior students from the Hume Valley School amalgamated to form a new senior secondary college. With school objectives firmly focused on the introduction of innovative teaching practice and community objectives that provide a more connected system of services, the new school facility was designed with a number of pedagogical concepts in mind, as well as being an icon that promotes an ethos of excellence and achievement. New Learning Environments: Rubida Research, under the direction of Dr Kenn Fisher, was commissioned as the Educational Planner for this and 4 other new school developments in the Broadmeadows district. The scope of our involvement extended from the commencement of the design process through masterplanning, schematic design and design development and more recently the professional learning and evaluation strategies required post-occupancy. A collaborative planning process was central to our interaction with the architects, DEECD and learning community and we worked closely with both for the duration of the project. We used design concepts that explicitly link pedagogy with space including zoning for safety and security, pedagogical zoning and, in specialist spaces, MIT’s Conceive Design Implement Operate concept.