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Science Centre The Science Centre (Building 302) The building is based on an organisational provides accommodation for the Schools strategy that promotes social and of Psychology, Chemistry and Environment academic interaction. As with many in addition to staff spaces for the Faculty previous Architectus projects, the of Science itself and is designed as the arrangement of the spaces in section anchor of The University of ’s is key. Activities are organised around Science Precinct. Located on the edge a series of staggered “rooms” and a of the city campus, the project responds connecting atrium, creating a flexible to a brief that sought to increase the environment for research, learning and University’s presence at a key gateway interdisciplinary communication. whilst bringing together new and existing facilities within the precinct.

Formally the project is organised to offer a generous “window into the life of the University” for passers-by and the city at large, whilst the provision of new sheltered edges to the street and ground plane linkages weave a connective network between the public realm and the campus community.

Above: Floors at different levels in the old and new are connected by a series of stairs and ramps across a slender atrium.

The rooms, arranged one above the other At the uppermost room four storeys Above: Research laboratories in section, commence at the ground plane of research laboratories are bought are arranged either where the planning allows for an open together either side of a top lit atrium. side of the uppermost and transparent student environment with Extensive glazing to either side of the room, a five-level top lit space with connection connectivity to the adjoining streetscape atrium connects the multiple lab spaces and circulation via a and Campus public spaces. Above this to each other and to the adjacent social staircase clad with an intermediate room connects staff and spaces that overlook the campus beyond. translucent red glass.

Science Centre undergraduates whilst the uppermost Research spaces throughout the building room brings together the more intensive are based on a ‘generic design platform’ and specialised postgraduate research to ensure the project can deliver adaptable spaces. An atrium of stepped bridges joins and efficient facilities that will meet the this new work to its adjacent neighbour evolving needs of present and future – the difference in floor levels becoming a building occupants. party to the possibilities of movement not an impediment to them.

Client: The

Location: Auckland, NZ

Approx. value: $160m Right: Floor Area: A generous terrazzo 23 000 m² treaded stair connects a mix of different social, Contact: teaching and learning Patrick Clifford environments across the Auckland lower two levels. Sunshine Coast Health Institute

The Outdoor Room provides an informal, shady and welcoming entry courtyard connecting the glazed entrance to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital on the left and The Hub, the main entry to the Sunshine

Coast Health Institute, on the right. Sunshine Coast Health Institute Sunshine both SCUHandSCHI. gathering spacethatmarkstheentryto shady ‘outdoorroom’ isthemajorpublic growing SunshineCoastcity. Agenerous major newhealthprecinct intherapidly Daubney. Theproject isthelocusofa (SCUH) designedbyArchitectus andRice $1.8b SunshineCoastUniversityHospital imbedded withintherecently opened is theteachingandresearch centre Sunshine CoastHealthInstitute(SCHI) within acontemporaryteachinguniversity. sophisticated educationalfacilityintegrated health professionals isanincreasingly The contemporarycampusfortomorrow’s auditorium. out spacetoTheHub shade inthebreak dappled sunlightand battenscast Timber Right: Coast Health Institute enhancing bothactivities. reality ofamajorcityhospital,continually teaching andresearch totheoperational and immediatelinkagesfrom academic Architecture andtechnologyprovide direct procedures inSCUH. and livevideolinkstomajorclinical high definitionvirtualanatomicalmodelling a sophisticatedauditoriumequippedwith battened, cylindricalHubbuildingcontains academic andclinicalfloors.Thetimber landscaped courtyard thatorientatesboth hospital faceeachotheracross thelinear The wingsofthehealthinstituteand John Grealy Contact: 4430 m Floor Area: $1.8b Approx. Value: QLD Sunshine Coast, Location: Consortium Exemplar Health Client: 2

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1 Parramatta Square spearheaded one Traditional teacher-centric spaces ensure of Australia’s largest urban renewal clear sightlines via tiering and large projects and has generated the transition central screens. This typically requires an of Parramatta into a true university city. increased floor-to-floor dimension, but The Western University School the shift in pedagogy to small group work of Business is at the centre of a thriving and distributed technology more closely business district and provides students aligns with the height requirements of a with opportunities to work closely with commercial floorplate. The large span industry partners, expand industry structural grid of 1PSQ was already able engaged research and have a learning to support column-free 60-person active experience that aligns with their future learning spaces without modification. professional practice. Light is drawn into the centre of the Online learning is changing how universities building through a triangular atrium view their real estate. Students no longer space, which in turn creates a sense of need to attend the physical campus for community, encouraging communication passive lectures but instead are drawn in to and interaction for either an educational engage with, and learn from, those around or commercial tenant. them. This shift from large-format tiered spaces to small group, active learning has The project heralds a change at Western enabled speculative commercial stock to be Sydney University in becoming a leading utilised for tertiary education. international institution. Via this leasing arrangement, the University was able Over a six-week design period the to reduce upfront costs and minimise base building of 1PSQ was strategically risk while still custom designing their modified from a commercial building to suit student experience. the needs of a tertiary education facility while easily converting back to an A-grade tenancy as required. At a base level the building classification changed and the population significantly increased. The vertical circulation and mechanical system was enhanced for these demands.

1 Parramatta Square Client: Charter Hall Technology is changing the tertiary With careful design consideration, Left: education landscape. The eruption 1 Parramatta Square (1PSQ) was adapted Cat qui doluptatio voles Location: andia con essinctiosae Parramatta, NSW of online content means transmissive from an A-grade commercial building quatinis num, quo qui learning no longer happens on campus. design to Western Sydney University’s dolum que pro minia. Approx. Value: Large tiered lecture theatres have been new vertical campus. It is Australia’s $220.5m replaced by smaller active learning largest developer-owned tertiary facility Floor Area: spaces, similar to modern collaborative and pioneers the idea that a university 28 400 m² GFA workplaces. This shift in pedagogy doesn’t need to own the building to Contact: demands different spaces. deliver state-of-the-art facilities. Ray Brown Sydney

Completed: December 2016

Above: The design gives careful consideration to the treatment of the ground plane and the public spaces created around and under the building.

1 Parramatta Square

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