Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School—Keilor East Campus Tour
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MCR has worked with Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) for over 15 years, developing a series of projects that rethink the educational campus as a kind of wondrous mini-city.
Our earliest curiosities are formed at school. Whether in the classroom or school yard, it is in this environment we learn for the first time that you could fit over a million planet Earths inside the Sun; that sound travels via invisible waves through the air; and that plants capture and convert light and carbon dioxide into matter for them to grow; and air for us to breathe. It is from this understanding that MCR’s Architecture for PEGS derives.
At their Keilor East campus are four unique projects that provide structure, organisation, legibility and diversity to the campus—but more than that, they provide countless opportunities to witness how theory manifests in physical form, and how delightful our world can be.
What's On
Join a campus tour led by an MCR practitioner and learn of the stories behind the design and construction of each project.
This event will provide a campus tour to small groups through the entire Keilor East campus, led by an MCR practitioner. You will learn the stories behind the design and construction of each project, and have the opportunity to ask questions along the way.
The tour will begin and end at the main campus entry of the Middle Girls’ school building. An MCR designer will lead you through the Middle Girls’ school (2015) before continuing to the Middle Boys’ school (2013), ‘Infinity Centre’ Senior school (2012) and Gymnasium and Events Centre (2021).
Images: (1) Gymnasium. (2) Senior School. (3) Middle Boys School. (4) Middle Girls School. All Photos: Courtesy of John Gollings
Important Details
Tour/event summary information
Sunday 27 July
Tours running every half hour from 12pm. Last tour departs 3pm
Running for 60 minutes in groups of 30
Bookings
No bookings required. Tour group capacity is limited and operates on a first-come, first-served basis.
Meeting Point
Please meet outside, between the Middle Girls Building and the Middle Boys Building.
Accessibility
Partially wheelchair accessible, Accessible bathroom, Accessible parking nearby, Elevator access
The buildings on the PEGS campus are all wheelchair accessible and the tour route will be adapted to accommodate any persons with a mobility impairment as required. There will be someone attending the campus entry point who can escort individuals to the meeting point via the elevator rather than stairs.
