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Ruyton Girls’ School – Junior School Campus in Melbourne
Modern Educational Facility in Victoria, Australia – design by Sally Draper Architects
18 Jan 2018
Ruyton Girls’ School – Junior School Campus
Design: Sally Draper Architects
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ruyton Girls’ School – Junior School Campus

The redevelopment of the Junior School campus at Ruyton Girls? School into a powerful three-level learning hub is the latest in a series of dynamic school projects by Melbourne practice Sally Draper Architects in association with DP Toscano Architects.
The firm specialises in tailoring designs to embody the culture of each client, and this has resulted in awards for excellence and environmental sustainability. In Ruyton?s case, the challenge was to integrate two dark and disparate buildings from different eras into a light, warm unified space where a love of learning, curiosity and creativity could be fostered and embraced.

Students at Ruyton, in Melbourne?s inner-east suburb of Kew, are encouraged to dream big and take bold action to fulfil their potential, both academically and with civic and environmental engagement and global citizenship. Within this framework and a tight budget, SDA?s job was to translate the philosophy into a building for Prep to Year 6 that would facilitate the students to excel happ...