Graduate building – Ormond College

Each room will enable students to interact with the garden and the outside. On the ground floor, each room will have a full-length window that opens onto the garden. On the next level, some of the windows will open onto a small balcony. The windows in each room will be placed to frame the views back to Main Building, across the Wyselaskie buildings, onto the garden or out through the elms to Princes Park. The top floor common room will open onto roof terraces at tree-top level.

Lovell Chen are internationally recognised as leaders in working with heritage environments.

In designing this building, we have studied graduate accommodation around the country and consulted with our graduates. Our principal lesson has been that the most successful schemes provide a little more privacy and space than undergraduates normally experience, but have common spaces for cooking and socialising. This spatial concept ensures that students are involved with their community, rather than being isolated in fully self-contained apartment-style rooms.

The new building is designed as a set of connected pavilions, rather than a single block or wing. Its five small pavilions will contain a total of 20 ensuite rooms for graduates, on two levels. The pavilions will be joined by a third level with a large shared kitchen, dining and study area.

Each room will enable students to interact with the garden and the outside. On the ground floor, each room will have a full-length window that opens onto the garden. On the next level, some of the windows will open onto a small balcony. The windows in each room will be placed to frame the views back to Main Building, across the Wyselaskie buildings, onto the garden or out through the elms to Princes Park. The top floor common room will open onto roof terraces at tree-top level.

Grad building sketch

via Our new graduate building – Ormond College.

Kitchen Garden

First and foremost, we want to enchant and engage the children, get them digging and planting and picking, or get them mixing or rolling or chopping, or get them around a table with their own freshly baked pizza topped with their own tomato sauce, liberally scattered with herbs from the garden, and the result is enthusiasm, real learning and great flavours

Stephanie Alexander

The Kitchen Garden Program was first established in 2001 at Collingwood College, as an experiential learning pilot program by Stephanie Alexander and Collingwood College.  Each week 180 children in Grades 3 to 6 spend forty five minutes gardening in their organic vegetable garden and orchard which they helped to design and build, and now maintain in our school grounds.

via Kitchen Garden.

Garden for Children

Dig in to pleasurable food education

Stephanie Alexander has a vision that pleasurable food education is accessible to every Australian school with a primary curriculum.

Stephanie says…

‘I believe absolutely in the importance and power of the shared table. In many cultures, eating together around a table is the centre of family life. It is the meeting place, where thoughts are shared, ideas challenged, news is exchanged and where the participants leave the table
restored in many ways.’

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation addressing the incidence of childhood obesity. They rely on the generosity, shared vision and commitment of schools, volunteers, philanthropic organisations, governments, businesses and individuals.

via Get Involved – Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation – Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, Kitchen.

Lighting Layers & Reflections by Autumn de Wilde

American photographer, Autumn de Wilde has designed a pair of transparent and reflective jewel toned structures for a photo-shoot in the dry Californian landscape.  Made of a combination of mirror and coloured plexiglass, images of the landscape are reflected on the structure, and  the landscape is simultaneously cast with rose, warm gold and aqua tinted sunlight. The reciprocal exchange of colour, light and refraction are truly exquisite.“I designed the sculptures so that they would interact and transform with the landscape as the sun rose, passed over us and set.”

via Lighting Layers & Reflections by Autumn de Wilde | Yellowtrace..

Walk through the Edible Parterre

Overall design and concept are by Joy Froebel

This walkway is lined with beds of lush produce plants- herbs, fruit, veggies & companion plants to inspire and promote growing our own food in our home gardens.

These garden beds are a 21st century Australian version of parterre gardens . They are set out in near symmetry, but are edged with recycled metal railings in place of the traditional hedging . The beds are raised, and will envelop visitors as they walk to the entrance.

via Kitchen Garden Walk through the Edible Parterre » Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art & Garden.