CREST Education VICTORIA

Buckford Illumination Group celebrates the newly opened Senior Learning Centre at CREST Education, designed to support Year 11 and 12 students. The new facility features a modern library, specialist classrooms, and vibrant recreational spaces, aimed at delivering a future-focused educational environment.

We are proud to have supplied the lighting solution to the facility’s interior and exterior areas, creating better spaces for students. Internally, BIG Essentials Neon Neo is seamlessly integrated into the stairwell and library reception desks, delivering a soft ambient glow that enhances wayfinding and navigation. While Coolon LED Lighting Multo IP and Max Mini luminaires trace skylights and ceiling beams, emphasising the architecture and creating continuity of light from day to night.

The centre’s objective of nurturing student potential is continued throughout its outdoor learning areas. The fluid transition between indoor and outdoor spaces further supports students’ evolving needs, fostering collaboration and interaction. We supplied an exterior lighting solution that seamlessly connects the differing environments. This is particularly evident in the staircase, which doubles as seating to create a comfortable and functional space. Here, BIG Essentials Neon Neo delivers a continuous ribbon of light across the seating area, adapting to both indoor and outdoor conditions.

Additionally, ERCO Castor bollards illuminate pathway and open-areas, ensuring safe navigation for students entering and exiting the building. Coolon’s Latitude IP is integrated into the canopy above pathways, offering decorative yet functional lighting. While WE-EF LIGHTING ETC330-FS in-ground luminaires provide wall and column washing to highlight architectural features and further support wayfinding.

The lighting scheme helps attract students into the space, creating a university style learning environment while also improving safety, especially during the winter months.

The Senior Learning Centre at CREST Education aims to maximise education by encouraging enhanced learning opportunities and promoting student agency. This is supported by the lighting which plays a key role in defining numerous spaces throughout the centre, supporting CREST’s commitment to student development and wellbeing through cutting edge facilities.