St Patrick’s College 5 Storey Learning Hib was designed to meet a contemporary pedagogical vision, supporting community engagement and with an enduring, sustainable and timeless architectural approach - a secondary school to provide innovative education spaces for 850 students, while promoting environmental and social sustainability for the wider school community. The school is designed for ‘learning communities’ with flexible and adaptable space. This allows for multiple organisational structures, including sub-schools. middle/senior school community and year level groupings. To achieve this, JDH developed two floors for general learning on separate levels sandwiched between specialist subject spaces, such as science, technology and arts. This is a transformative project that embraces opportunities for enhancing the learning life of the whole community through shared-use facilities, cooperative management, governance, and working in partnership to develop visionary education programs. The building’s ground level reflects the public functions of a school community, and the aspiration of a socially connected and inclusive environment - conceived akin to a town square, with public, civic and cultural facilities encircling a central gathering space. Within each Learning Community on Levels 1 & 2, a variety of settings support key functionalities, whilst project spaces and a multi-purpose workshop afford greater opportunity for diverse learning exploration. On Level 4 science spaces are arranged as a combination of dry, super and fab-labs to provide for a myriad of activities and super flexibility. Specific-use facilities are supported by multi-modal theory, design, prototyping and presentation spaces. Student and staff amenities are provided on all levels, with generous vibrant circulation stairs bookend the building. This is a truly multipurpose facility, with learning spaces co-located with multi-purpose spaces for health and wellbeing programs to serve both SPC and the wider community.