Coloured Glazed Brick Façade from PGH Bricks & Pavers

PGH Bricks colour in Dayboro Community Kindergarten
Pro-bono project delivers colourful and playful new spaces for kindy community

A collage of PGH bricks has been used to create a playful, colourful design for a pro-bono extension at Dayboro Community Kindergarten in Queensland. A multi-purpose open space for the school community, Reddog Architects specified PGH bricks to create a non-threatening, welcoming and humble architectural language appropriate to a kindergarten.

"The kindergarten had a limited budget to create an open space and storage area. It wanted to create a memorable address for its community, characterised by playful colours and design details. The use of PGH Full Glaze bricks in primary colours (Fizz, Tango and Wasabi) was embraced for the project's exterior," said Emma Healy from Reddog Architects.

To deliver the extension within budget, Reddog Architects conceived a brickwork collage using limited quantities of various end-of-run bricks. The result was a lively and welcoming façade. The light coloured bricks in Thredbo and Bathurst provided tonal contrast to the chocolate bricks of existing architecture, and the inconsistencies and cracks in the coloured glazed bricks added texture.

Importantly, the use of bricks provided context and familiarity for the extension. "The external palette of brickwork and weatherboard was contextually appropriate to the neighbourhood and echoed the existing building, providing a space that was at ease with its surrounds," said Healy.