Melbourne Grammar School [South Yarra] Steele Oval Underground Car Park

  • client Melbourne Grammar School

    status Complete 2009

    location St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria

    traditional land owners Bunurong People

    photography John Gollings

  • The project involves the construction of a 200 car underground car park located under the Steele oval. It had been a long held ambition of the School to remove all parked cars from within the campus and thus significantly enhance amenity and safety. This is a compact campus with over 1150 students and 225 staff so space is precious. The campus is also subject to a complex range of planning and heritage controls, including some 25 buildings and landscape elements listed on the Heritage Victoria Register. The car park has two identical levels of 100 cars with an off-set ramp for access. This produces an extremely efficient structure and parking layout. This arrangement preserves the important open vista from St Kilda Road across the Steele oval and driveway to the west Quadrangle building and forecourt. The Steele oval has been rebuilt on top of the car park to seamlessly integrate it into the landscape and topographic form.

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