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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. St Joseph’s Nudgee College in Queensland, Australia by m3architectureDecember 21st, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: m3architecture The Bathersby Boarding Village is akin to a castle in the centre of a city (the school). It is a place where every boy can feel like “the King of the Castle”. Fort-like boarding houses have a long tradition in English schools. They offer appropriate frameworks for safety, security and community building.  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones
 Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones The village is a home for 330 boys and associated supervisors. It brings together all four boarding houses into one complex, for the first time in the school’s history.  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones The building is a three-to-four storey castle wall, which encloses a private courtyard. There are common rooms and kitchens for groups to gather, and individual rooms for students to sleep and study. Bathrooms are organised around vertical gardens and a lush courtyard plays host to community activities.  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones The castle wall and gates provide an appropriate sense of physical and psychological separation from the day school – it is a threshold into another world and a place to call home.  Image Courtesy © Christopher Frederick Jones
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