Tranby Aboriginal College

This project at Tranby Aboriginal College involved a number of aspects of work including a major new building containing classrooms and workrooms and alterations and conservation work to the existing Heritage listed buildings on the site.

Sydney’s Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative (for education and advancement of indigenous people) opened new teaching facilities at the rear of its headquarters in a Georgian cottage in Glebe, NSW. The development, is a cluster of two and three-storey circular pavilions made of split-face blocks, topped with cooper dome roofs, linked by meandering balconies and pathways around a sinuous central court. The circular geometry was inspired by the Aboriginal tradition of the ‘learning circle’, where students and elders sit facing each other.

More information about Tranby can be found at http://www.tranby.edu.au/