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 […]
The kindy children arrived to the new year to find their newly renovated kindy room was very different. For a start it was bigger but it was also a kindy with no doors and no windowpanes. It was like camping; the cool breezes on a hot summer day most welcome but when the hail and […]
Often at the Kindlehill building site, heavy objects need to be moved. In keeping with an effort to keep carbon dioxide emissions low, and empower the humans working on-site rather than employing excess machinery, several large steel beams have been moved by many able bodies over the last week or so. This video captures one […]
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