JULY 2022 client to us. We had to compete on our first two jobs together, but after that, they basically said, ‘Well, you’re our architect.’” Debbie credits the longevity of that relationship to the quality of the outcomes they have achieved together. She believes that over the course of their working relationship, they have “transformed the school.” “Working together with them, we’ve given their school an identity,” she says. “We’ve enriched their environment, in my opinion. At the end of the day, I think that’s helped attract enrolments. It’s been a successful relationship on both sides.” In the case of the award-winning Music House, the mission of the project was to refurbish the existing music centre – a singlelevel Victorian ‘house,’ which wasusedby the school formusic tuition – while adding improved and additional spaces for music tuition and performance. The new building is comprised of variously sized practice-rooms whichallowfor individual tuition and group practice. A large classroom has been included, intended for both tuition and as a key performance space for students, parents, and others. According to a text description by MCR, in the finished design, the three buildings – the existing music centre, the new music house, and the Y5&6 building – “become more than the sum of their parts.” Together, they “activate the impression of a mini-precinct through the ensemble of buildings.” The new addition of the Music House “acts as a mediator between the formality of the 2009 building and Victorian house.” “The addition has all the DNA of your archetypical ‘modernist’ school building and can be seen as part of the family of later institutional typologies throughout the campus,” the description reads. “The utilitarian and modernist origin is a brick and skillion roof building attached to the more formally complex historic building with its variegated silhouette. The south and west
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