Wenona School, North Sydney Real Estate, NSW Interior, Photos, Australian Modern Architecture
Wenona School in North Sydney
18 Jan 2021
Wenona School
Design: Modscape and Team2 Architects
Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Founded in 1886, Wenona School is a historic girls? school located in North Sydney. The complex has undergone several modifications in recent years in response to an expanding community and an ever-increasing demand in enrolments.

While expansion is necessary, Wenona faces the same challenge that most inner-city schools experience ? being bound by residential buildings and thus limited to growth only within the original campus grounds. To address this, it is not uncommon for schools to now adopt vertical learning spaces, which is what Wenona has done for its new general classroom building.
Modscape and Team2 Architects were engaged to design the new four-storey building, which replaced an underused maintenance cottage. The building, which includes 14 learning spaces, three covered outdoor learning spaces (COLAs), staff amenities, a lift and stairs, utilised the benefits of design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and modular construction, which allowed it to be manufactured in just 12 weeks.

The building is the cornerstone of the school campus? south-west corner, and greets visitors as an inspiring and impressive piece of architecture.

The façade?s unorthodox rounded edge offers a welcoming message to the students and passers-...