Gold Coast Campus Master Plan and Planting Strategy
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2014 MASTER PLAN GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY GOLD COAST CAMPUS Consultant Team Master Planner Cox Rayner Architects Landscape Architects RPS Landscape Architects Traffic Planner Geleon Consulting Cost Planner Rider Levitt Bucknall Planting Strategy Associate Professor Catherine Pickering Griffith University 2014 MASTER PLAN GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY GOLD COAST CAMPUS GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL G40 INDICATIVE COMMONWEALTH GAMES VILLAGE 2018 G34 G32 G37 G38 P AR KL G07 AN OLSEN AVENUE D CARPARK A S GOLD COAST D UNIVERSITY G17 R IV PRIVATE G22 E G28 HOSPITAL G33 G07 CARPARK F G03 G27 G01 G36 G42 UNIVERSITYG11 DRIVE G06 G20 CARPARK B FUTURE G05 G39 GCCC G10 G23 KNOWLEDGE CARPARK PRECINCT CARPARK E G12 G14 G30 CARPARK D G08 G09 G02 G24 G09 G16 G13 TO SOUTHPORT G29 GT1 G25 G21 G26 G04 G31 ENGINEERING DRIVE SMITH STREET AND OLSEN G19 AVENUE INTERCHANGE GT3 CARPARK G SMITH STREET GT2 G51 G52 G53 BRIDGE LANE CARPARK I CARPARK CARPARK H QUEENSLAND ACADEMY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY E SOUTHERN D PRECINCT VILLAGE ROAD M U N D R I GRIFFITH C UNIVERSITY E OLSEN AVENUE VILLAGE D R I V E GCRT (RAPID TRANSIT) STATION Existing campus and context 0 50 N LEGEND G01 BUSINESS 1 G09 ENGINEERING G19 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT G27 BUSINESS 2 G36 LAW G51 SMART WATER RESEARCH G02 CLINICAL SCIENCES 1 G10 GRAHAM JONES CENTRE G20 CHILLER HOUSE 1 (WEST) G28 KIOSK G37 CHILLER HOUSE 5 CENTRE G03 LECTURE THEATRES 1 AND 2 G11 LIBRARY G21 CHILLER HOUSE 2 (EAST) G29 CHILLER HOUSE 4 G38 CHILLER HOUSE 6 G52 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING G04 SERVICES G12 SCIENCE 2 G22 CHILLER HOUSE 3 (NORTH) G30 ARTS AND EDUCATION 1 G39 SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND G53 CHILLER HOUSE 7 G05 HEALTH SCIENCES G13 MULTISTOREY CARPARK G23 MULTIMEDIA G31 ARTS AND EDUCATION 2 ARCHITECTURE GT1 CLINICAL SCIENCE ANNEX G06 BUSINESS 3 G14 VISUAL ARTS G24 SCIENCE 1 G32 THE PAVILION G40 GRIFFITH HEALTH CENTRE GT2 COASTAL MANAGEMENT G07 THE LINK (STUDENT GUILD) G16 CLINICAL SCIENCES 2 G25 GLYCOMICS 2 G33 STUDENT CENTRE G42 GRIFFITH BUSINESS SCHOOL GT3 DEMOUNTABLE G08 FLAMMABLE LIQUID STORE G17 LECTURE THEATRES 3 AND 4 G26 GLYCOMICS 1 G34 THE CHANCELLERY (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Contents Introduction 7 Summary Master Plan 9 1 > Short Term Master Plan 15 1.1 Overview 17 1.2 Central Campus Heart 21 1.3 East Campus Heart 25 1.4 East-West Pedestrian Spine 29 1.5 Aquatic and Fitness Centre 31 1.6 Parklands Drive Interfaces 35 1.7 Post-Commonwealth Games Potentials 41 1.8 Carparking Structures 43 2 > Medium Term Master Plan 45 2.1 Overview 47 2.2 Potential New Buildings 49 2.3 Built Environment 50 2.4 Vehicular Circulation 51 3 > Long Term Master Plan 53 3.1 Overview 55 3.2 Precinct Structure 55 3.3 Development Scale and Flexibility 59 3.4 Vehicular Movement and Servicing 61 3.5 Built Environment 63 4 > Building Design Guidelines 65 4.1 Introduction 67 4.2 Building Design 67 4.3 Outdoor Furniture, Lighting and Signage 69 4.4 Indicative Colour Palette for Future Buildings 73 5 > Landscape Strategy 75 5.1 Summary Strategy 77 5.2 Landscape Precincts 78 5.3 Methodology 85 5.4 Character 86 5.5 Microclimate 87 5.6 Planting Palette 88 5.7 Landscape Master Plans - Conclusion 91 Appendices 1. Grows at Griffith 95 2. Painting and Refurbishing 99 Long Term Master Plan Concept Sketch 7 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION This Master Plan strategy accords strongly with the University's stated vision, described in The The key strategies in the Master Plan are: Griffith University Strategic Plan 2013-2015: > development of a perimeter vehicular system that enables the campus to become primarily a pedestrian domain "Our comprehensive campus, with its particular strengths in health, environment, biomedical > formation of a major longitudinal pedestrian spine, together with a series of lateral pathways, sciences and engineering...collocated with the Gold Coast University Hospital and 2018 which significantly improve legibility and accessibility within the campus Commonwealth Games Village...will create the most exciting education precinct in Australia." > evolution into a distinctly urban subtropical campus of robustly scaled buildings, active ground levels and vibrant courtyards The Griffith University Gold Coast Campus Master Plan is designed to create a rationally implementable,dynamic urban campus which correlates with the exciting future set out in the > creation of a new regime of planting shifting emphasis away from a bushland setting to a more Griffith University Strategic Plan 2013–2017. formalised subtropical landscape The singular most important aspect of this Master Plan is the consolidation of the campus on the > continued activation of Parklands Drive and engagement with the wider Gold Coast Health and existing Northern Precinct rather than extending onto the Southern Precinct. Knowledge Precinct with a view to expansion across Parklands Drive into its future ‘Knowledge Precinct' The purpose of this consolidation is two-fold; one is to urbanise the campus into a subtropical > utilisation of open spaces as intrinsic elements for teaching, learning and research. township, fostering interaction and collaboration between disciplines, the other is to facilitate integration of the campus with the wider Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct to the north. > development of two major ‘campus hearts’ – east and west – that are the centres of university While focused on the public and private hospitals, this precinct will become a township and the social life opportunity should be taken to coalesce commerce, living and knowledge into a vibrant, mixed-use > expansion of the Athletics Field into a defined health, sports and lifestyle precinct incorporating urban environment. aquatic and other sports venues. The Master Plan facilitates an orderly progression of growth to a notional development potential. However, the earliest opportunity should be taken to commence negotiations for the campus to expand across Parklands Drive and become an integral participant of the wider precinct. The Master Plan is organised into three phases as follows: MASTER PLAN 2013 > VOLUME 2: GRIFFITH GOLD COAST MASTER PLAN MASTER 2: GRIFFITH GOLD COAST VOLUME PLAN 2013 > MASTER Short Term, primarily to restructure the pedestrian movement system into a legible form and to establish two clear campus hearts. Medium Term, which reinforces the structure by new buildings on sites which are generally readily available. Long Term, which envisages (what may be regarded as) a maximum development potential on the Northern Campus, completing the pattern of movement paths and urban spaces. The descriptors – short, medium and long – are not related to specific time-frames, however using current growth forecasts, notional time-frames could be considered to be 2013-2015, 2016- 2020 and 2020-2030 respectively. GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY GOLD COAST CAMPUS GOLD COAST GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY COX RAYNER ARCHITECTS RAYNER COX Western Aquatic and Revised GCRT Station Central Campus Main East GCRT Station Ring Road Fitness Centre Chancellery and canopy Heart Pedestrian Campus and new (G34) court Spine Heart entrance structures P A R K L A N D S D R I OLSEN AVENUE V E HEALTH DRIVE E C A L P I N M U L A UNIVERSITY DRIVE SCIENCE ROAD S C I E N C E CLINICAL LANE R O A D ENGINEERING DRIVE SMITH STREET MOTORWAY SMITH STREET 0 50 Short Term Master Plan N LEGEND NOTIONAL NEW BUILDINGS EXISTING BUILDINGS 9 SUMMARY MASTER PLAN Short Term Master Plan This phase could be expected to be implemented within the next three to five years. It is intended to primarily create INTRODUCTION The Master Plan is structured in three phases – short, a new clear pedestrian movement structure, an enrichment of social spaces along the structure, and the initiation of two Campus Hearts at pivotal locations. The strategy also includes a new aquatic and fitness centre that forms a medium and long term – to facilitate an orderly pattern comprehensive sports and lifestyle precinct with the existing western facilities. of integrated development and campus enhancement. Therefore, this phase does not envisage any substantial new academic buildings, however there is no reason that new The three phases are defined as follows. buildings indicated on the Medium Term Master Plan cannot be brought forward into this phase. An important consideration in the short term is for a solution to the impending loss of carparking due to the Commonwealth Games development. There are two major options for new multistorey carparking; one in the Southern Precinct, and one a duplication of the existing northern multistorey carpark. The latter potential will depend upon approval to construct ingress and egress points along Smith Street, thus without such approval, the southern option seems likely to be a necessity. MASTER PLAN 2013 > VOLUME 2: GRIFFITH GOLD COAST MASTER PLAN MASTER 2: GRIFFITH GOLD COAST VOLUME PLAN 2013 > MASTER GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY GOLD COAST CAMPUS GOLD COAST GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY Three-dimensional view COX RAYNER ARCHITECTS RAYNER COX Potential Possible new Relocated courts The Chancellery New vehicular New arrival forecourt from Significant Sciences Potential duplication Notional campus underground grandstand and completed (G34) converted arrival court GCRT station courtyard of Multistorey Carpark expansion into carpark with sports precinct to art gallery (G13) GCHKP building over P A R K L A N D S D R I V E OLSEN AVENUE E C A L P I N M U L A UNIVERSITY DRIVE SCIENCE ROAD S C I E N C E CLINICAL LANE R O A D ENGINEERING DRIVE SMITH STREET MOTORWAY SMITH STREET Possible upgraded ramp for general "Little Smith Street" Possible egress route traffic access completed ring road onto Smith Street 0 50 Medium Term Master Plan N LEGEND NOTIONAL NEW BUILDINGS EXISTING BUILDINGS 11 Medium Term Master Plan This phase could be expected to be implemented within the next seven to ten years.