3.0 Strategies LTU Albury-Wodonga Campus Master Plan
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Strategies LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ALBURY-WODONGA CAMPUS3 2017 MASTER PLAN | MARCH 2017 | MGS ARCHITECTS | 31 3.0 View LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ALBURY-WODONGA CAMPUS 2017 MASTER PLAN | MARCH 2017 | MGS ARCHITECTS | 32 3.1 Strategies INTRODUCTION THE KNOWLEDGE VILLAGE The Master Plan Strategies provide a campus-wide approach to resolving 1 – Partnerships and community engagement existing issues and aligning future development to demonstrate that people – Teaching, learning and research are our starting point, as well as best achieving the institutional and campus – Sports and recreation vision. – Campus life Each Master Plan Strategy consists of the following elements: – Housing – Built form and development controls Context Details the context, including discussion on current issues affecting the campus. Vision ACCESS AND WAYFINDING Outlines the vision of the Strategy – an ambitious statement of intent. 2 – Part 1: Access to the campus Directions including cyclist, public transport and vehicular access strategy. – Part 2: Access on campus Provides a list of directions, or actions, that could over time combine to – Car parking and service access realise the vision. ALIGNMENT WITH RFAs LANDSCAPE AND PUBLIC REALM All campus Development Strategies will be viewed 3 – Landscape - spaces through the distinctive lens of the Research – Landscape - walks Focus Areas (RFAs) to ensure that the physical – Landscape - ecology and biodiversity development of the campus is aligned with the – Landscape palette University’s core teaching and research agenda. EARLY WINS Early Wins are listed for each Strategy and align SUSTAINABILITY AND SERVICES with the following categories: 4 – Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) — A project that can be delivered in the early – Energy, technology and Co2 emissions stages of the Master Plan. – Water and waste — An inexpensive project or initiative. — A project with considerable support from the University and broader community. — Processes or behaviour-change projects that can be delivered with limited resources. LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ALBURY-WODONGA CAMPUS 2017 MASTER PLAN | MARCH 2017 | MGS ARCHITECTS | 33 3.2 Partnerships and community engagement strategy CONTEXT DIRECTIONS Sports partnerships Innovation and enterprise partnerships There is a great opportunity to ensure the campus is Research partnerships in the campus core The University could build on its existing connections Innovation and enterprise partnerships could be designed for people by connecting with and supporting to local sporting teams, through extensions to the targeted for key sites and along the highway to the Multifunctional and multidisciplinary research spaces the needs of the local community. La Trobe University, existing pavilion, introduction of an all-weather field north. These enterprises could be attracted by existing could be developed through partnerships with key together with Wodonga TAFE and Victory Lutheran and construction of a new multi-purpose space that capability and investment in digital technologies and institutions, in order to bolster research facilities on College, could together create a regional employment accommodates indoor sports and sports testing. Sports access to the existing AARNET connection, and could campus. and education precinct. Partnerships with private, public science, related research and coaching could also be create mutually beneficial opportunities for research and community sectors have the potential to implement To align research undertaken with the regional sectors, explored in partnership with the La Trobe University and commercialisation. The University could provide mutually beneficial projects with gains for the education the following research and regional partnership Melbourne campus and Wodonga TAFE. There is a long-term lease arrangements to selected companies precinct and the region as a whole. opportunities could also be explored: potential to connect to research currently undertaken at that have synergies with the Research Focus Areas of the Centre for Sports and Social impact Centre (CSSI). the University and the focuses of the region. Growth forecasts suggest that the core academic - Agri-bio and entrepreneurial agriculture businesses and research space requirements of the University - Agri-science Housing and aged care partnerships For further information on research, community, sport can be accommodated in the core campus, within - Ecology and economics innovation and housing partnerships is available in each respective Along the interface with Daintree Estate, housing and the ring road. This enables the sharing of additional - Business innovation strategy. aged care projects that either support the University space outside of University Drive for partnership lease - Management research community or connect to research projects could be agreements. This has the potential to diversify and - Logistics introduced. Several options could be considered, such strengthen the education precinct, and help the campus - Emergency management and resilience. as intergenerational housing, a healthy ageing centre or ALIGNMENT WITH RFAs integrate with its surroundings. affordable housing. Existing and potential regional research partners Existing campus GFA:11,085m² include: Intergenerational living on campus could enable Building healthy communities - The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre early childhood education, child and maternal health Future campus core GFA 38,500m2 Pursue partnerships with research institutes and (MDFRC). services and training opportunities on campus, and Future campus with partnership GFA: 163,500m² housing providers to introduce intergenerational - North East Catchment Management Authority align well with the La Trobe University ‘Building healthy living or a healthy ageing centre on campus. Refer to 5.5 Yield for details. (NECMA). communities’ RFA. The centre could be linked to a - The Centre for the Study of the Inland (CSI). variety of partners including The Wodonga LEAP Centre Securing food, water and the environment VISION (currently offering Early Childhood Intervention Services Pursue partnerships with research institutes for children with a disability or developmental delay), Over the next 20 years, the University could maximise Community partnerships regarding water and food security, and resilience. partnership opportunities and shared facilities on and possibly The Olga Tennison Autism Research campus in order to establish a vibrant precinct There are a variety of community centres in and around Centre (OTARC) for research into children on the autism Sport, exercise and rehabilitation of learning, research, community resources and Wodonga, providing programmes for the community. spectrum. Pursue partnerships with the City of Wodonga The growing community in West Wodonga may employment. In order to achieve this, the campus could Through a partnership between the University and and local sporting teams to introduce new and develop a need for a range of services in the nearby share its assets and engage with the needs of the the John Richards Initiative (JRI), a research centre upgraded sports facilities. area. City of Wodonga currently have community community. for ageing communities could be established. The centres in Birallee, East Wodonga and Baranduda, University could provide commercial long term lease Research partnership projects that are closely related which could be complemented by a centre near or EARLY WINS of land, and have research, clinical placements and and which contribute to the University’s core Research on the campus. A community hub on campus could student internships linked to the aged care facility. Extend Discovery Way into Daintree Estate. Focus Areas (RFA’s) could be located in the core of the provide the community with a hall for corporate Wodonga TAFE could take part in this initiative through campus, inside the loop of Discovery Way. Partnership functions, social occasions and weddings, linked to Refer to 5.1 Early Wins 0-2 years - Built form and nursing training placements. projects that foster a sense of community between the nearby sporting facilities. It would help the University facilities University, TAFE and West Wodonga could be located and Wodonga TAFE connect to the local community, A variety of specialist housing could be accommodated along University Drive. Outside of the core campus, creating pathways to further study. on the campus, responding to short-term there is potential for a wider spectrum of partnership accommodation, staff and students as well as Stronger connections to the Wodonga library could be projects, relating to sport, housing, aged care and community challenges linked to affordability, healthy formed, opening up the university library to community innovation for industry and commerce enterprise ageing, vulnerable families and domestic violence. partnerships. users. The proposed extension to the library could accommodate these uses. LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ALBURY-WODONGA CAMPUS 2017 MASTER PLAN | MARCH 2017 | MGS ARCHITECTS | 34 Partnerships and community engagement HUME HIGHWAY MCKOY STREET B A P P P 0 50 10 0 m KEY B Existing partnerships DISCOVERY WAY* Proposed community use campus buildings Existing key community buildings Enterprise partnership buildings Housing partnership buildings UNIVERSITY DRIVE Sporting partnership buildings P Research partnership buildings Bus route E IV New bus stop R D K R A Arrival Experience P D L IE F Discovery Way E R O O Primary Pedestrian Network B M Recreation