Corinda State High School is locate in Brisbane, Queensland and is one the leading co-education public schools in the area.  As part of 2019 Renewing our Schools Program Gray Puksand was engaged to complete the new Research & Innovation Centre creating a new central heart of Corinda State High School campus that includes contemporary statement spaces that identify the school as a modern education environment.

The brief and vision were to create a central hub that was future-focused to prepare students as agents of their own education. The Research and Innovation Centre design ensured that from the outset, spaces allowed for a range of learning opportunities and pedagogies acting as a “living room that extends to an alfresco” for the school.

The overall scheme is deliberately open plan, with spaces that need to be enclosed strategically place to create physical separations. The vertical connections, though the bleachers or the stairs, creates the opportunity for the building to be used in different ways, depending on how much or how little permeability is desired for different activities or events.