Winning the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture, the Clendon Centre is a new learning and home base for Loreto Toorak’s Years 7 to 9 students, and the third major project on campus completed by Architectus over the last 12 years. There are six-floor levels, three of which are below ground.
The new building has been designed to maximise the development opportunity for Loreto within a very restrictive physical context. The building form and materiality needed to respect the physical and visual integrity of the schools’ historic setting: Mandeville Hall designed by Charles Webb, St George’s Chapel, its outbuildings and, importantly for Heritage Victoria, the memory of the site as a residential compound. The building form is the outcome of the rigorous investigation of its function and setting – a ‘Contextual Modernism’. Its functional geometry engages with its immediate physical environment while also responding to the residential scale and rhythm of Clendon Road.
Read more about the Clendon Centre here.
