Project Overview
The Innovation Learning Centre (ILC) at St Paul’s Grammar School is a new collaborative teaching and learning environment, completed in 2023. Wetherill Architects were commissioned to design the two-storey building upon successful delivery of the School’s 2019 Master Plan. The facilities are designed for flexibility, and in doing so, provide opportunities to harvest space for both traditional and contemporary teaching and learning pedagogies.
Distinguished by its ‘floating’ roof and carefully designed clerestory glazing, the building captures abundant daylight, offers visual connectivity to the tree canopy and optimises solar protection to minimise the environmental footprint. The external finishes respond to the school’s existing colour palette and unify the site’s various architectural styles.
The specific flexible learning environments include:
- Knowledge Centre/Library with associated Offices, Silent Study, Seminar and Breakout Spaces
- Lecture Theatre and Tiered Seating
- Multiple “Incidental” Open Learning Spaces
- Student Services Centre
- Mathematics (7)
- STEaM – Combined Science, Technology, Engineering, Art (2)
- Staff Faculty Area
- Offices and Meeting Rooms
- Separate staff and student amenities
