A new primary school landscape for the expanding eastern suburb of Brabham, designed to be thoughtful and fun.
Eschewing the typical indifference to place found in suburban developments, the landscape intentionally celebrates the uniqueness of site (as a threshold between the Swan Coastal Plain and Scarp) pairing it with the suburb’s legendary racing car driver Jack Brabham’s love of racetracks and loops.
Materially, limestone is juxtaposed with clay bricks, dunal sand basins to red loam pockets, yellow banksias to neon pink beaufortias.
Geometrically, multi-coloured pathways, loop next to, around and through the site. Silica intertwined with ochres; expressing its unique environmental context through dynamism and play.