St Marcellin Centre

Marist College Ashgrove

2021 - 2024

State Award for Educational Architecture, RAIA Queensland State Awards, 2025

Regional Commendation for Educational Architecture, RAIA Greater Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards, 2025

People’s Choice Award, RAIA Greater Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards, 2025

EmAGN Prize Shortlist, RAIA Greater Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards, 2025

COLORBOND® for Steel Architecture Award Shortlist, RAIA Greater Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards, 2025

The St. Marcellin Centre is a robust architectural framework which seeks to embody the values of the Marist College Ashgrove community whilst providing agency for a shift in pedagogy within the Primary School.

Recognising Campus as a finite resource, we adopted a vertical school strategy.

By raising the building on a forest of columns and a cloistered edge of blades, We have created a significant Understorey. Initially an unbriefed space, this reservoir of deep shade presents a point of assembly.

The social spaces and connectivity of the new Primary Precinct are intended to engender a heightened sense of identity and autonomy, to foster a recognisable ‘Community within a Community’.

Notably, the external passively conditioned spaces constitute 30% of the plan and volume, and are an integral part of the experience of occupying the St Marcellin Centre.

The teaching and learning rooms are conceived as a series of interconnected subspaces offering fluid flexibility and choice in teaching and learning environments.

Builder: Stokes Wheeler

Project Manager: Steele Wrobel

Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones

Project Team: Paul Hotston, Hudson Smith, Alice Langholt, Monique Pousson, Lachlan Sweet & Jun Joo

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