Georgina leads the Window-making Group, one of four parents who have volunteered their time to create bespoke windows and French doors for the school. (If you want to admire their work so far check out the new windows in Kindy). Georgina is a fine wood maker with fourteen years experience crafting everything from high-end, sculptural […]
Kindlehill’s team of artisans bring an impressive array of skills to the building process, but perhaps the most eclectic craft belongs to Matt, who specializes in pre-medieval construction techniques. A native of Kent, he grew up surrounded by centuries old timber buildings, but thought little of them when he turned his professional attentions to mechanical […]
Rudolph Steiner was an architect, as well as a philosopher, scientist and social thinker. A quick glance at his major buildings – The First and Second Goetheanum and The Stuttgart Eurythmeum – show an abiding interest in geometric forms. Steiner contended that too many straight lines, flat planes and right angles, stifled the imagination and […]
Pippita and Lynne have set their own challenge. Over the holidays they sculpted a stairwell rail that evokes a twisting vine. Pippita came up with the idea after she heard that the garden between the spiral shell and original building will feature rainforest plants. The stairwell, at the lower end of this garden, with […]
The new verandah near the entrance is a beautiful creation, that provides shelter from sun and rain. Now that it is complete, the front garden has been tended to by the younger children.
The large quantities of concrete used in the construction of the new performance space may seem to run contrary to the school’s commitment to use materials with a low embodied energy. Unlike cob, which is mixed from material mostly found on site, a great deal of energy goes into the production of cement. But fear […]
A performance space and kindy is emerging from the ground. The concrete footing is laid, the steel beams are up and the purlins are set. The Spiral Shell is taking form. Designed by Sunlab’s Simon Hearn, the small circular room at the top end is more that an eccentric technical room but the building’s structural […]
Jason needed a “hands on” crew! A crew cheerful and hardworking. A crew that could sing as it worked. A crew that would work for the satisfaction of getting their hands dirty….. “Jason, have I got a crew for you.!” said the kindy teacher. “Consider the kindy floor mudded.” Photo caption: Children help to lay […]
T1: Mon 3rd Feb – Fri 11th April
T2: Mon 28th Apr – Fri 27th June
T3: Mon 21st July – Fri 19th Sept
T4: Mon 13th Oct – Fri 12th Dec
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