The 'learning warehouse' is an element which has been created through JCY's want to use the undercover area allocation of the standard Department of Education's brief in a manner which creates a 'place' of exceptional school civic value rather than simply being distributed around each building element as a series of 'verandahs'. This single and fundamental design decision, taken at the masterplanning stage, has completely reinvented the essential nature of the design of schools, as they have evolved in past years throughout Australia.