Creating Productive and Engaging Education Spaces
With over 30 years of experience in education, we have a proven track record of designing award-winning learning environments aligning with best practice teaching philosophies.
Working closely with teachers, staff and facility managers, we ensure our designs optimise learning, collaboration, prioritise flexibility and increase sustainability. It’s this experience and expertise that GB-A brings to every education project.
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Designing Education
INNOVATIVE, ENGAGING STORYTELLING
Projects take on new life when placemaking and storytelling combine into built form. We seek opportunities with schools to create awe-inspiring, educational, and fun experiences through architecture that depict strong senses of place and identity for their communities.
PRODUCTIVE OUTDOOR LEARNING
Research continues to prove that students are more engaged when learning outdoors. More and more schools are looking to create outdoor spaces that find new learning opportunities that extend beyond traditional classrooms.
Outdoor learning benefits include improving intrinsic motivation, increasing mood & creativity, and activating lateral thinking. These benefits are proven to improve student health, cognitive skills, problem solving and social behaviour.
Our highly experienced architecture, landscape architecture and interior design teams provide a wealth of ideas to help you find the best environmental solutions to suit your needs.
SPECIAL NEEDS
As veterans in designing for special needs, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), we have a strong and awarded portfolio of thoughtfully designed projects that keep core needs of students at the forefront.
HEALTHY CLASSROOMS
There is a growing focus on healthy interiors, and for good reason too. With 90% of time typically spent inside, the quality of the air you breathe and environment you live, work, and play in is critical to our wellbeing.
We develop several healthy initiatives throughout our projects, including biophilic design, salutogenic design, noise reduction, considered materials, ergonomic design, natural lighting, ventilation, and ease of maintenance.
SUSTAINABLE WAYS WE DESIGN
Passionate about creating educational spaces that minimise environmental impact, decrease costs, increase efficiency and improve student learning and performance, GB-A takes a creative, considered and collaborative approach to their design and consultation to help schools achieve a healthier and more sustainable school environment for students and staff.
With attitudes, beliefs and actions so often shaped by the built environment around us, at GB-A we believe we have a responsibility to create spaces that foster respect for the environment and facilitate new ways of thinking, learning and living. Find out more about the sustainable ways we design.
An Integrated Approach
We believe healthy learning spaces that are connected to nature are important to inspire our next generation to connect with the planet, respect it, and live sustainably.
Driven by a deep love of design, our multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach of bringing together architecture, interiors and landscape architecture allows us to respond promptly and creatively to your requirements. We deliver innovative design concepts that result in functional, flexible, and timeless design solutions that seamlessly integrate from the inside out.
Have a project that needs design?
Find out how we can assist you with architecture, interiors, and landscape architecture to Generate Better design outcomes.
Contact us today on (07) 3870 9700 (Brisbane) or (03) 8547 5000 (Melbourne).