Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Junior Campus
Junior Campus
In 1875, Brisbane Girls Grammar School was founded as a High School, to offer girls the same learning opportunities as their male counterparts. For the same reason 140 years on, the school determined to establish a Junior School across the road from the High School, converting what was a five storey Queensland Country Womens Association accommodation building.
Reflecting its culture, the High School is understood as a microcosm of the city. In addition to the foundation buildings, each new building has its own idea, creating diversity and emphatic identity.
The new Junior School was conceived to evoke innocence, curiosity and playfulness, to invite exploration and discovery, and establish a relationship with the Senior School.
Microcosm n. a little world.
It was conceived as a microcosm of the Senior School – its little sister – the emphatic identity of the Senior School in MINIATURE.
Miniatures have a certain effect, enabling the child (in all of us) to be enchanted. They revere their subject, beautifully scale down materials, enable comprehension, and are exacting without replication.
Microcosm n. a little world.
It was conceived as a microcosm of the Senior School – its little sister – the emphatic identity of the Senior School in MINIATURE.
Miniatures have a certain effect, enabling the child (in all of us) to be enchanted. They revere their subject, beautifully scale down materials, enable comprehension, and are exacting without replication.
The Senior School buildings make enchanting miniatures.
Stacked one atop another, they form a little world, a vertical village in miniature. This invests a rare power in the junior girls – to see each part and the whole at once – a world that can be overseen by them, with security, order and meaning.
