Sitting on the former site of the Ryde High School is the new 46-million-dollar primary school, Smalls Road. The school accommodates 1,000 students in a massive high-tech facility. As part of a 4.2-billion-dollar investment from the NSW government, the school was one of 150 chosen to receive upgrades. Interestingly, the original school closed 30 years prior and the site required both refurbishment and new construction.
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Reminiscent of an Apple facility, the architects designed the school in a distinctive circular orientation. Over three-stories, the building features a two-story library, 43 learning facilities, and three rooms for special education students. The school also features indoor and outdoor recreational spaces including a multipurpose sporting facility with sports courts and fencing.
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The exterior is clad in Vitragroup’s Vitrapanel, a high-performance fiber cement cladding enhanced with A&I Coatings’ Vitreflon 700 fluoropolymer coating system. Vitreflon employs Lumiflon’s FEVE which offers architectural surfaces a plethora of benefits, all of which ultimately help maintain the structural integrity of the coating system.
Photograph © Richard Crookes Constructions
Substrates which feature FEVE resin technology are provided with longevity and durability in addition to excellent color and gloss retention, anti-corrosion and graffiti properties, and superior weatherability, essentially protecting architectural coatings from UV radiation, water, salt and other elemental deterrents that contribute to coating degradation.
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information courtesy of Richard Crookes Constructions & TTW
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