The campus being structured around two protected courtyards has also enhanced the learning space’s access to light, ventilation, and views. Each wing has its own qualities, different from each other and yet seamlessly connected to the next. In this way the building acts as an embodiment of the journey of education, with less distinction of any prescribed boundaries between disciplines. The color strategy reinforces the identity of the academic disciplines, universally enhanced by the richness of natural materials, such as locally recycled timber.

Planning allows the building’s circulation to constantly return to the library at its heart, and in this way is physically and experientially in parallel with the educational ethos of the school. This variety of spaces and volumes, not dissimilar to a walled citadel with its gardens and ceremonial arches, are encased within a unifying skin. The outer wall of the building is also clad with glazed bricks, a material that offers protection, beauty, gravitas, and imbues the impressive form with a sense of permanence.

The banded brickwork pattern aids in reading the shape of the building, adding complexity and delight as the sun catches the silver throughout the day.