Trinity Lutheran College

This project is part of the 2021 AILA QLD Landscape Architecture Awards.

Trinity Lutheran College is a co-educational school for junior, middle and senior year groups on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Burling Brown architects have designed a new Senior Learning Precinct, including landscapes, realised as part of a long-term campus masterplan prepared by the architects.

They write: “The site area is located deep within the campus on an elevated position and is the connecting landscape for the college’s resource centre, specialist hospitality study areas and middle school gathering spaces.

“Inspiration for the design was to use the constructed landscape as ‘vehicle’ to mirror the aspirations of a teaching environment promoting learning, passion and inspiration and ultimately, seeking to have broader impact in the global community.

“The organic patterns of water and ‘ripple effect’ with radiating waves from a central position were used to illustrate this.”

Mall Curved Slim Benches are used to furnish parts of these ‘ripples’ curving around trees and garden beds, and moving with materials on the ground plane.

The seating is specified with two-toned powdercoated battens in a tailored soft palette of Eternal Silver and Natural Shimmer, the darker placed on the outer rim as the ripples travel outwards. The frames are Eternal Silver.