Genazzano College
Genazzano College
Education - Genazzano FCJ College Vaucluse Student Reception
2024
Genazzano FCJ College Vaucluse Student Reception provides a new 'face' for Genazzano College in Kew, elevating the experience of arrival for students entering the campus on the Mont Victor Road frontage. Constructed around a narrative sequence of spaces including the student Reception Hall and the Wintergarden, an indigenous garden, and renovated interiors, the design draws students into the campus, disseminating flows of arriving pupils to the various parts of the site while solving a range of accessibility challenges. The main feature of the new student Reception Hall is a gently curved, proprietary suspended brick screen that mediates between the palette of materials found across the campus in heritage and other legacy buildings. The transparent skin creates a dappled shade in the reception hall, and gives the building a unique and uniquely porous expression in the streetscape.
