Architecture - Masters

Sandgate Bayside Integenerational Living Campus

Stage 1 building of the Intergenerational Learning and Living Campus in Sandgate Bayside will establish the Warrah Parkway (landscape and culture rail), comprising of shared uses and co-learning spaces. It will house the library as the primary shared facility, adjacent to other civic uses, senior living to the west and secondary school to the south.

Caryl Heraldo

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Sandgate Bayside Campus stage one – INTERGENERATIONAL LIVING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

project overview

The master plan and architectural proposal illustrated a vision for the whole site to initially cater for 648 secondary students and 75 seniors living on site. It also considers associated projects outside of the intergenerational living and learning campus, which included other facilities to support the selected service providers and community activities to ensure that healthy living and learning revolves around connection and integration with community and its place.

The project addresses one of the greatest challenges for the future, particularly in Australian society, around the separation of generations and therefore diminishing relationship between different generations, impacting upon quality of life, health and a sense of inclusion.

Persisting trends and culture around aged care and retirement undervalue the important role and contribution of seniors to our communities. On the other hand, traditional institutional learning environments, including secondary schooling, can do more to expose youths to diversity and interaction with different generations – to break away from traditional age-group batching and embrace new learning pedagogies.

The role of service providers/ community partnerships can play a key role in supporting healthy intergenerational environments. This includes providing infrastructure for social enterprise, exchange of knowledge and experience, and flexibility of uses and operational services.

The project focuses on these particular issues and opportunities, manifested through a master plan that functions as a framework for the intergenerational campus through an articulated program and design of the site. A selected building in the master plan is further developed that explores this through an architectural proposition.

Illustrative Plan

The elements of the master plan includes:
• Pedestrian mall that brings the community to the site and emphasises its connection to the water. The campus structure also reinstates the urban grid, framed by formal avenue trees and swales.
• Civic spaces framed by a grove of seasonal trees and shared facilities.
• Senior living that is integrated with the school and community programming, and connected to nature.
• Learning focused on entrepreneurship, creativity and culture and recreation to promote exchange between students, seniors and the community, which is supported by the following spaces:
− A marketplace, along the pedestrian mall to interact with adjacent and existing neigbhourhood centre, where students how of their work in the ‘living labs’.
− Creative and culture hub adjacent to open spaces to allow for outdoor performances and showcasing.
− Recreation hub and wellness centre connected to the Decker Park, foreshore and the sea, which is accessible by all and offers a variety of active recreation spaces.
• Superimposition of a landscape and cultural trail, connecting a network of passive open spaces and connects the two heritage places, the RAAF Barracks and RAAF Memorial Park, within the site, as well as connecting the wider historical signficance of the place, linking to Sandgate, Warrah Park and Pine River.
• All shared facilities, including spaces for co-learning, co-fitness, co-care and co-creation are located along Warrah Parkway.

master plan layers

Stage 1 Architectural Proposal

Stage 1 building of the Intergenerational Learning and Living Campus in Sandgate Bayside will establish the Warrah Parkway (landscape and culture rail), comprising of shared uses and co-learning spaces. It will house the library as the primary shared facility, adjacent to other civic uses, senior living to the west and secondary school to the south.

Design Drivers

The master plan and architectural proposal is informed by three key design drivers, which will be further explored and develop in the final master plan and the architectural proposition for the project.
1. BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES – URBAN CONTEXTUAL DRIVERS
2. BREAKING THE POWER IMBALANCE – PROGRAM DRIVERS
3. ELEVATED & CONNECTED TO NATURE – PLACE AND FORM DRIVERS

BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES

– A linear axis that pierces through the site and the reinstating of the grids to connect the community to the water and connecting the surrounding schools and education along North Road.

– Key community activities on the edges that respond to existing uses and features, as well as centralised location of shared facilities to bring community life into the site.

– Creation of a landscape and cultural trail ‘ Warrah Parkway’, defined by informal coastal trees and meandering boardwalks to connect all the uses around co-learning, co-fitness, co-care and co-creation and connects more broadly the historical and cultural significance within the site and beyond – Sandgate, Moreton Bay and Pine Rivers.

BREAKING THE POWER IMBALANCE

– Co-learning and co-creation spaces at ground floor, as well as shared community facilities.
– Diversity of learning spaces that is open to its surroundings and connection to its community or place, for the students, seniors and community. –
– Hierarchy of open spaces and semi-private spaces.
– Breaking traditional learning models – break away from indoor and defined classrooms, batching of age-groups.
-Learning curriculum to be integrated with community life (focus on applied learning within the flexible learning environments).
– Senior living to be closely integrated.

ELEVATED & CONNECTED TO NATURE

– Integrating the boardwalk and informal coastal trees along the proposed Warrah Parkway with the architecture.
– Elevated ground plane to let nature pass through, and landscape running through.
– Open views to the water, from the community facilities, learning areas and residential living.
– Use of timber as structure and material for the building.

concept design

concept design drawings

Caryl Heraldo

Graduate of Bachelor of Design (Architectural Studies) and Masters of Design (Urban Design), Caryl is passionate about championing architecture developments that have positive impacts to the immediate and wider urban context and the making of ‘place’ in our cities.