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Architect Victoria Looking In, Looking Out: University Campus Design autumn/winter 2019 $14.90 Official Journal of the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter Print Post approved PP 100007205 • ISSN 1329-1254 . ENGINEERING '-. ,,._ DESIGN '" I. -- _....,.- SOLUTIONS .._ -- ' Building Services • 111111111 Civil l Environmentally Sustainable Design Facade Design Fire Safety Structural Traffic Transport & Parking - Waste Management 2 � 1. St Ki Ida Football Club, MoorabbinOval Redevelopment - Stage 2 WiliiamsRoss Architect.s I Photo:Chns Matterson Oi-$C;iplincn::Structurill, Civil, ESO 2. The Australian Ballet Centre Redevelopment Hass.ellArchitects I Photo: Lh'lieThompson Disciplines::Bu,khng Services.Fil'e Salety, ESO 3. GASP: Growth Area Schools Project Dohertys Creek. Truganina ArchlrecrusK2LD • I Photo: KaneJarrod Oi:;c::iplinC1$.Structural. Civil,Suilding Sorvioo$. Trafficand Wa&1e Management 4. Orygen and OYH Parkville 8Jlktrdt.oeco Pttrt11CffhJp I Photo:IO,'I Ten Setd.'tm Olscfpllnes: Strueturnl,Civil 3nd Facade Melbourne Darwin Bendigo L3 289WoJ ngton Par;)(foSouth 8-2 Smith SIIOOt 133 McCr.ao SltOot El'ttl MelboumtVIC 3002 Oaiwin !lt1" 0800 Se,ncligoVIC 3550 ···irwinconsult t +61396229700 t ♦61$89805900 t ♦613 54426333 a wsp company mlbOlrwinoonsu!t.com.au drwOitv.inoonsult.com.au bgoOirwincomuttoom.au www.lrwlneonsutt.com.au Contents — Architect Victoria With thanks to our Gold Patron autumn / winter 2019 Carey Lyon 02 President’s message 03 Chapter news 08 Special feature 10 Editorial 16 Campus heritage 20 Open campus 24 City shaping 28 The international campus 32 Art on campus 36 Planting architecture in design 38 The regional campus 40 On campus living 43 The vertical campus 46 Russell Elliott interview 52 Broad perceptions 54 Student perspectives 56 Place value 58 Profile 60 Slice 63 Books Australian Institute Managing Editor On the Cover Architect Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Architects Ruth White Original artwork by Eloyse McCall depicting different of the land on which our office is located, and pays Victorian Chapter Editorial and Publishing architectural typologies often found in a university respect to the Elders past, present and future. Level 1, 41 Exhibition St Coordinator campus. Disclaimer Melbourne, VIC 3000 Emma Adams Art Direction Readers are advised that opinions expressed in articles ABN 72 000 023 012 Graphics Coordinator Annie Luo and in editorial content are those of their authors, not of Become a Patron Eloyse McCall the Australian Institute of Architects represented by its Printing Victorian Chapter. Similarly, the Australian Institute of [email protected] Guest Editors 03 8620 3866 Printed in Melbourne Architects makes no representation about the accuracy Jocelyn Chiew of statements or about the suitability or quality of goods This Publication is Copyright Laura Held and services advertised. Advertise with Us No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval [email protected] Editorial Committee system or transmitted in any form or by any means 03 8620 3866 James Staughton (Chair) including electronic, mechanical, microcopying, Elizabeth Campbell photocopying, recording or otherwise without the Subscriptions Laura Held Five print issues per year, permission of the Australian Institiute of Architects Yvonne Meng Victorian Chapter. including Awards edition John Mercuri (AUD) $80 Australia/NZ Justin Noxon $120 Overseas Sarah Lynn Rees Keith Westbrook President’s message — The university is a business. A big the importance of informal working The architecture business. This is not a bad thing, just spaces and the role they play in a fact. In recent years we have seen relationship to the classroom and of universities increases in capital expenditure and other programmed spaces within a conscious investment in upgrading the campus. We have seen many and redefining the university campus. successful examples of these building This edition of Architect typologies being delivered through Victoria has been guest edited by RMIT University with New Academic Jocelyn Chiew and Laura Held. Street (Lyons in collaboration with Manager of Campus Design at Monash MvS Architects, NMBW Architecture University and current Victorian Studio, Harrison White and Maddison Chapter Councillor, Jocelyn has been Architects), Monash University advocating for the role of architecture, Learning and Teaching Building (John landscape and urban design to Wardle Architects) and more recently reshape our university campuses. in the commission by the University From a historical perspective, of Melbourne of the New Student the architecture of universities has Precinct (Lyons in collaboration with its roots in urban design and city Koning Eizenberg Architects from planning. Originally appropriating and the US, Breathe Architecture, NMBW occupying city buildings designed for Architecture Studio, Greenaway other purposes, universities evolved Architects, and Architects EAT). into communities of their own. In The establishment of the many instances, they have sustained Education Category in the Victorian the life of the city in which they are Architecture Awards program in located and created an opportunity 2015 recognises the important role to manifest new ideas through education buildings play within the architectural experimentation – the public realm as an independent symbolic and institutional architecture typology. of European university buildings, the Experimental and unafraid enclosed courtyard typology of Oxford to agitate, the agenda has been set and Cambridge, the open academic for education buildings to continue village layout of American colleges. developing new learning environments Universities in Victoria evolved from and sustainable communities. This each of these typologies and created a may not always be to the liking of very diverse academic landscape. all those who engage with these The historical evolution buildings; however, universities should of campus design is essential in be congratulated for their ability to see understanding the use of iconic the value of encouraging a memory Victorian Chapter President architecture for branding purposes, of time and place associated with Amy Muir and is a very powerful tool to sustain a university experience defined by the business of our universities. architecture. This is priceless. With student intakes rising and the I would like to thank our prevalence of international students, members who have significantly the parallel between campus contributed to the realm of education design and urban planning and the design. Their expertise and advocacy acknowledgement of branding through for change through architecture is constructed environments are more incredibly important. relevant than ever. I would also like to The campus might sometimes congratulate Jocelyn Chiew, Laura resemble the 24-hour city as students Held, the Editorial Committee and the find ways to work, sleep, play and be many contributors for providing an in- educated. It then becomes important depth understanding and celebration to recognise the pressures that of this typology. students face and to understand the inherent value and wellbeing that architecture can bring to students lives. We are today very aware of Chapter news — From the Victorian In May we welcomed Carey Lyon as The shortlist for the 2019 a Gold Patron of the journal. Patrons Victorian Architecture Awards was Executive Director allow us to continue providing and announced at the Exhibition of Entries publishing a place for professional opening at No Vacancy Gallery. The Ruth White discourse. We are thankful for your 2019 Graduate Prize was also awarded support. on the night, congratulations Louis We also celebrated the 40th Nuccitelli from RMIT University anniversary of the Burra Charter, first for the project ‘Beyond the Selfie’. adopted in 1979 at the historic South The graduate prize recognises the Australian mining town of Burra. The successful balance between design, charter defines the basic principles construction and practice excellence. and procedures to be followed in Thank you to all those who the conservation of heritage places. participated. The Awards program The 'nitty-gritty' of the architectural offers an opportunity for public and profession was discussed with Ask an peer recognition of the innovative Architect. We also brushed up on our work of our members. Over the past knowledge of designing in decorative weeks 14 juries, which includes 43 concrete with an ArchiTECH session awards jurors and 14 graduate jurors, by Holcim (Australia). Graeme Gunn have been travelling across Victoria discussed 'Embracing Space' in the visiting shortlisted projects. We look Gold Medal Series seminar and we forward to hearing the results of rounded out the month with a warming all 14 categories and the Victorian ArchiTECH session by Supreme Architecture Medal on Friday 28 June Heating. at Peninsula in Docklands. Tickets The Novation Survey, which now on sale. closed 26 April, is an important first step to allow us to undertake further research and industry engagement supported by the findings. Stay tuned for this. Education The main focus of action by highly sensitised about instances of the committee draws on the effort fire-spread on high-rise residential Committee by the newly formed Continuing facades and individual cases of Professional Development (CPD) uninhabitable new-built apartments, Dominik Holzer sub-committee led by Catherine as covered by the media. Where does Duggan. Since