Pastel Student Welfare Centers

Branch Studio Architects was tasked with creating a new student welfare center at the Placidus Building. The space is defined by its dusty pink palette and it can be found in Melbourne. This aims to create a space to discuss mental health at the all-boys school. The principal of Marcellin College Marco Di Cesare noticed a gap in a physical space where students could come to and seek out help surrounding issues of mental health.

Brad Wray, founder of the studio explains that "Marco came to us with a brief for a refurbishment to a lower-ground space within an existing building, which – under previous management – was flagged for demolition. Given the poor amenities and general dark 'undercroft' feeling of the existing space, it was a space that not many staff or students particularly liked to use and saw any real value in. Let alone, the potential of the space becoming a place for student welfare."