As part of the Ministry of Education’s PPP3 Schools Project ASC Architects were required to produce a Primary School design to be built on three separate sites, with the potential for the same design to be provided on even more sites in the future. This required a design response that was flexible enough to be used across a range of individual site contexts and adaptable enough to be able to individually reflect the unique qualities of each school’s place, culture and context.

This project, initiated in 2014, is the first step in the transformation of Unitec’s Mt Albert campus. This involves changes to both the physical environment and the pedagogy of learning at Unitec. An important part of the transformation is to make the campus ‘more sticky’, meaning students and staff spend significantly more time there, and interact in new ways.