St Finbars Primary School, Melbourne

Additional classrooms and school administration with renovations to existing facilities. Design opportunities were taken to enhance a sense of light throughout the building, and certain walls, including internal dividing walls, may have areas of translucent glass blocks, enabling light transmission while avoiding the prospect of ‘see-through’ disturbance and noise transfer. To absorb locally generated sound energy and help modify noise transmission, all teaching spaces required certain areas of sound absorbent surface treatment.