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The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School Junior Campus is the junior campus of Preshil. It was designed by Kevin Borland.〔Kevin Borland Architecture From The Heart, Doug Evans with HC Borland and Conrad Hamann. RMIT University Press ISBN 1-921166-20-7〕 The buildings that Kevin Borland designed at the Preshil School are experimental in design and uses triangular and hexagonal geometries together with diagonals in both plan and section. This creates a variety of internal and external spaces, irregular forms and buildings that strongly deviates from the conventional school buildings of that time. The precise forme of each building and its detailing is counteracted by the use of raw timber posts and beams.〔Preshil Junior school. Victorian Heritage Database. (04 09, 2012. ) http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;13627〕 The campus size is not much bigger than a large residential block in the area, which creates a lively density of play spaces, trees and buildings. The buildings are laid out in a labyrinthine, non-hierarchical and non-institutional way, integrating the new buildings with the existing 1930s cottage and the landscape on the site. The buildings were designed to accommodate the school’s approach to active learning, embodied in the child-scaled and multi-purpose buildings.〔Victorian Heritage Register (Heritage Register Number: Prov H0072), HERMES ID: 13627, 18.7.05, pg 4-5〕 ==Description== Kevin Borland Hall (1962) The first building Kevin Borland designed for the school was the ‘Preshil school hall’, later renamed to ‘Kevin Borland Hall’, constructed in 1962. It was designed for multi-purpose use and with its octagonal shape it was a clear departure from the usual nave-like school halls. It is most famous for its intricate octagonal timber roof structure with skylights. It has wooden beams that span both the hall and the sheltered bays outside of it. The roof is clad in steel deck, and the walls are built of grey concrete blocks.〔Victorian Heritage. Preshil School Hall. Victorian Heritage Database. (04 09, 2012. ) http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;22341〕 In 1959 Kevin Borland and Geoff Trewenack designed glazed pyramidal skylights in the McCarthy-house that acted as a precedent of the roof structure at the Preshil school hall.〔Kevin Borland and the Two Strands of Melbourne Modernism http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e03159/ModMelb/borland_melbourne_modernism.pdf〕 House, prep room and library (1930s, 1964, 1975) In 1994 Borland designed classrooms for pre-school children in an addition to the east end of the original house (1930s), incorporating what once was a bedroom and sitting room of the house. Borland wanted to design an informal building that referred to the kids scale with a combination of small and large spaces. Large, open classrooms with mezzanine floors that can be reached with ladders, provides the kids with an opportunity to isolate themselves from the group when they want to. The addition is a rectangular timber building with an elevated verandah along its length.〔 In 1975 a second addition to the original house was made by Borland and his associate, Jenny Shannon. This time it was a second floor addition to the rear of the original house. It is an irregular form built with brick, raw timber and glass with multiple levels. It was supposed to be a staff room, but quickly turned into the school library, with a good view across the site.〔 The ‘tree house’ (1965 The ‘Tree house’, built 1965, consists of two elevated rectangular timber classrooms, with long window-shades by timber slats and timber bays along one side of the building. The two rooms are separated by a timber deck, through which an Italian Cyprus grows, giving the building its name. Underneath the deck is a space used for woodwork classes and sandpits.〔Victorian Heritage. Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle School. Victorian Heritage Database (04 09, 2012. ) http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;71605〕 Multi-purpose tutorial rooms (1939, 1969) The original rectangular classroom, built 1939, was modified by Kevin Borland together with Philip Cohen as assistant architect in 1969. The intent was to create multi-purpose ‘tutorial’ classrooms that provides private and community spaces. This is achieved by large classrooms that can be divided with folding doors. The building is long, rectangular and with an open veranda along the north side.〔 The ‘home-rooms’ (1972) In 1972, Borland and assistant architect John Kenny built the irregularly planned timber building called the ‘home rooms’. It has a variety of spaces on different levels that are linked by steps, and a mezzanine level for the children to find private places in that can be reached by ladder. To provide spaces for individual activities, the west wall zig-zags.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Preshil (Junior Campus)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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