26 March 2024
We often consider the classroom as synonymous with learning, where each year, teachers and students are assigned rooms as locations in which to fulfil the educational requirements of the curriculum. Conversely, play is considered the domain of the exterior, where children go outside ‘to play’ during break times.
31 January 2024
Spaces are complex entities. Education spaces even more so, given they must facilitate many teaching and learning structures and experiences, while also catering for diverse user needs.
30 October 2023
Following on from the 2021 UTS AfterSchool architectural masters studio, this year, Hayball Principal Fiona Young, Associate Rob Chan & Hiral Patel (from Cardiff University) co-led Unschooling: Taking School Out of the Box, which explored challenges facing school development in NSW (and beyond).
07 August 2023
Celebrating our fortieth year, Hayball launched an Australian-first initiative to measure and quantify the social value of our projects across all sectors.
28 October 2021
Earlier this year, Fiona Young and Natalia Krysiak led AfterSchool, an architectural masters studio at the University of Technology Sydney which explored a new typology for school. Together, with their eighteen students, they investigated how learning environments could be reconceptualised to become more connected and networked entities within the urban realm.
27 January 2021
Fiona and Dani explore how should school spaces reflect gender in a contributing article for Architecture Australia’s Dossier ‘Gender Matters’. Originally published in Architecture Australia September / October 2020 issue.
11 June 2020
25 October 2018
Hayball Sydney’s GL(E)AM Forums have been growing from strength to strength since launching in June this year, demonstrating a thirst within the industry for a GL[E]AM-centred gathering for thought leadership. You may be familiar…
24 October 2018
In keeping with Hayball’s research-led design ethos, we are so proud to share the news that three of our Sydney studio staff-members have been granted prestigious scholarships, allowing them to pursue three meaningful and…
09 July 2018
Hayball’s new Surry Hills Studio was officially launched late last month, with a fantastic group of clients and supporters braving a rainy night in Sydney to join the Hayball team in celebrating the opening…
06 July 2018
Hayball’s Sydney Studio has launched a series of monthly forums focused on current and future thinking in learning environments, in particular looking at the ever-evolving GL(E)AM sector. Our team have curated a fantastic line-up…
07 March 2018
While educators understand basic design principles, many architects are unaware of the fundamentals of learning. Creating world-class education environments requires an in-depth understanding of how they work – something not always prioritised in the…
21 December 2017
According to the latest research, play is vital for everyone’s well being and a proven means of boosting creativity and productivity in adults. Its value in early childhood and primary schools is well documented, and more workplaces now…
07 December 2017
At the inaugural Urbanity conference in Brisbane, architect Natalia Krysiak presented her recent findings on the future of city living and why our city planners need to urgently find (and listen to) their inner-child. With…
18 September 2017
Hayball is amplifying its research capability by appointing an esteemed architectural academic to drive its research program. Professor Naomi Stead, recently announced as the head of the Department of Architecture at Monash University, has joined…
07 August 2017
Hayball’s innovative prototyping project for Caulfield Grammar School, The Learning Project, has been selected as one of three finalists in the internationally renowned James D. MacConnell Award. Regarded by the Association for Learning Environments…
05 July 2017
Congratulations to Natalia Krysiak, an architect in our Sydney studio, who was awarded the David Lindner Research Prize by the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects at the 2017 NSW Architecture Awards. Raising…
