JASON CHEUNG
UNSW | M.ARCH 2019 H I G H P E R F O R M A N C E T E C H N O LO GY | G R A D U AT I O N S T U D I O
T H I R D S P A C E
C O N T E N T S I T E A N A LY S I S RESEARCH QUESTION& CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK D E S I G N S T R AT E G I E S & D E V E LO P M E N T DESIGN PROPOSAL
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A N A L Y S I S CONTEXT ZONING T R A F F I C A N A LY S I S SITE CONDITIONS S H A D O W A N A LY S I S UNSW ZONING S T R E E T S C A P E A N A LY S I S
context | axo | city block
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context | axo | figure ground
context | axo | street
context | axo | major thoroughfare
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context | axo | education
context | axo | residential
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context | axo | recreation
context | axo | medical
context | axo | commercial
context | axo | place of worship
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site condition | planning controls
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| 15% of site depth residential rear setback
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| 4000mm setback from adjacent buildings
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| 1500mm setback from ground
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| 5500mm setback above 4 storeys
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| 9500mm setback above 6 storeys
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| 23000mm maximum height limit to comply with OLS
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| potential demolition of new college; maintain existing southern boundary
site condition | interface
North
| nida loading | sunlight blocked by nida, maintain existing loading
East
| anzac parade | public plaza, functions can be spilled out if pedestrianised
South
| day avenue | apartments on the other side, public facilities are not preferred
West
| back of houses on doncaster avenue | backyard of houses, public facilities are not preferred
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roundhouse
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tyree
water channel 12
randwick racecourse
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ols 70m
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ols 60m ols 51m site condition | flooding & obstacle limitation surface 13
shadow | 9am 21 st june | existing
shadow | 9am 21 st june | max envelope
shadow | 12nn 21 st june | existing
shadow | 12nn 21 st june | max envelope
shadow | 3pm 21 st june | existing
shadow | 3pm 21 st june | max envelope
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shadow | 9am 21 st june | existing
shadow | 9am 21 st june | max envelope
shadow | 12nn 21 st june | existing
shadow | 12nn 21 st june | max envelope
shadow | 3pm 21 june | existing
shadow | 3pm 21 june | max envelope
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housing
built environment
administration
medicine
recreation
engineering
parking
science
unsw | functions
business
arts & social science
other facilities
unsw | faculties
prominant street corner
pedestrian connection
public open space
entry point
pedestrian crossing
unsw | pedestrian connectivity
unsw | vegetation on campus 17
pleasant frontage inactive frontage commercial frontage pedestrian crossing
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pleasant frontage inactive frontage commercial frontage pedestrian crossing
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R E S E A R C H Q U E S T I O N C O N C E P T U A L F R A M E W O R K RESEARCH QUESTION C U LT U R A L C O N T E X T - C I T Y O F S Y D N E Y ACADEMIC CONTEXT - UNSW THEORETICAL CONTEXT - ART/SCIENCE T H E O R E T I C A L C O N T E X T - T H I R D S PA C E
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H ow c a n a b u ild ing f o s t er th e en c o u n t e r b e t w e e n art, sc i en c e & t h e p u b li c ? collaborative relationship between art & science | mutual enhancing of audience and researchers through public engagment | third space: a generative site of shared experience |
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cultural infrastructure plan 2025+ | create nsw
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western parkland city central river city
eastern harbour city
sydney map | three city metropolis
the cultural infrastructure plan 2025+ , released in 2018, provides the strategic framework for how the nsw government will invest in and support cultural infrastructure across the state until 2025 and beyond. one of the great goal from the plan is to ‘support greater sydney’s transition to a three-city metropolis.’ the project site in the eastern harbour city, which its vision is “creativity is central to a competitive, innovative and global city,” focusing on precincts which drive innovation,creative industries and global competitiveness. situated with in the global gateway of australia and financial capital, building a new facilities that foster creativity and innovation and form cultural precinct with surrounding institutions can greatly contribute to the particular goal and the brand of unsw as an innovative, creative institute.
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planning sydney’s cultural facilities | sweet reason pty ltd
this is a independent report prepared by the sweet reason pty ltd in 2011 as a review of sydney’s cultural facilities through venue audit, benchmarking, stakeholders consultation etc. stakeholders identified that sydney lacks purpose built, multidisciplinary experimental exhibition venues equipped with digital infrastructure. existing spaces does not allow for cross-disciplinary practices, nor for a predominately process driven practice that is inherent to all visual arts practice. the report also suggests the followings: - Multiple formal performance spaces for a variety of art-forms - Formal museum or gallery exhibition space - Informal outdoor spaces designed to be easily activated for festivals and other events through provision of power and other services - Places where art is made and seen to be made – rehearsal rooms and studios where public engagement is encouraged
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building a new facilities that foster multi-disciplinary collaboration and art practice in the context of exhibiting and making can enrich the art and cultural landscape of sydney.
a cultural randwick sity | randwick city council
the randwick city cultural plan - a cultural randwick city (2008-2018) has been prepared to provide council with a strategic framework for guiding the city’s cultural activities over a ten year period and to enhance funding opportunities for cultural development. in section 6.3, a cultural audit report was prepared to provide an indication of the cultural resources in randwick city. the report also identified desired cultural resources that will enrich randwick artistic and cultural landscape but are not located within randwick city: - a purpose built performing arts centre - a cultural space to showcase local Indigenous history, culture and related activities - a city gallery/contemporary arts space - a writers centre - a cooperative arts space - a citywide local history museum/space 27
unsw 2025 strategy | unsw
in unsw 2025 strategy, academic excellence and social engagement are two of the strategic priorities. unsw is taking initiative to facilitate interdisciplinary research (theme a2 inititive 4) and on the other hand to foster creativity and public engagement with art, culture and science (theme b2 inititive 3).
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2025 strategy in action | unsw
one of the activity outcome from the above strategy, seen in 2025 strategy in action, is the big anxiety festival in 2017 presented in association with black dog institute. it is an event brings together artists, scientists and public to “tackle major anxieties of out time� through experiments, conversations, installations to virtual reality to explore mental health in 21st century. events like this shows unsw’s participation in encouraging crossdisciplinary collaboration and their interaction with general public.
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an evaluation of the wellcome trust’s sciart programme | wellcome trust
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there is no study to knowledge has taken on evaluating the benefits of collaboration between art and science. the closest study found is the review of the wellcome trust’s sciart funding programme. this 2009 report evaluates the wellcome trust’s sciart funding programme between 1996 to 2006 that funded visual arts projects which involved an artist and a scientist in collaboration to research, develop and produce work which explored contemporary biological and medical science. the foundings are categorised into the follwing aspects of analysis: cultural: academic research culture of the visual arts in particular benefited from the program. the programme had enabled the forgotten connections between the art and science to be recognised and accentuated.
educational: the outputs the projects through exhibitiing had considerable educational value for their audiences. there was a widespread view that artists’ communicative abilities had helped to demystify and make more intelligible aspects of contemporary science. In this sense the art and science were shown to have the potential to coexist in a fruitful symbiotic relationship.
innovation: the programme had resulted in the emergence of new processes of working, particularly in terms of artists’ practice, and innovation of process was often felt to be as important as the resulting products. artists were more likely to be innovative and to take risks than scientists, but that some scientists had become more open to risk-taking through their association with artists.
scientific: a number of scientists also testified that their involvement with artists had encouraged them to adopt a more speculative approach to their research and some scientists felt that they were more prepared to take risks. Working alongside the arts had helped to make science more accessible to the public, and had thus improved scientific communication.
personal: a significant minority of the scientists reported that working with an artist had enabled them to rediscover a creative dimension that had been ‘sacrificed’ because of the professional protocols and conventions. artists had felt stimulated and challenged by the opportunity to work with scientists and within scientific contexts.
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editorial: what is experimental art? | Jill Bennett
this article by unsw art & design professor Jil Bennett was published in studies in material thinking volume 8 in 2012. in the article Bennett suggests there is a the rise of “research culture” in the arts where researchers have advanced art-led multidisciplinary research. such research produces both art and knowledge outcomes when arts establish its technical base by connecting to spheres of science. in terms of cross-disciplinary research in an institutional context Bennett suggests: ‘within institutional discourse there is increasing talk of “breaking down silos”, motivated by the notion that bridging divisions might leverage disciplinary research across a wider arena.’ ‘if we are becoming more open to multidisciplinarity at an institutional level, this is no doubt in part an acknowledgement of the scale and complexity of the problems we face... they have no optimal solutions, just better or worse responses.’ 32
multi-objective evaluation of cross-disciplinary experimental research | Mari Velonaki
this article by unsw art & design professor Mari Velonaki was published in studies in material thinking volume 8 in 2012. in terms of the public participation in research project Velonaki suggests: ‘...answering research questions through experimental demonstration... involving the general public...where people move more freely and are open to experimentation — can help to collect valuable data, free of the restrictions inherent in a laboratory space.’ ‘...a wider variety of social backgrounds and age groups than those who volunteer for laboratory-based studies. access to data generated in social spaces...can be extraordinarily valuable to researchers in many varied disciplines.’ in terms of the space need for cross-disciplinary research Velonaki suggests: ‘...demands dedicated spaces that provide appropriate technological infrastructure and a nurturing intellectual environment that encourages experimentation and appreciates the value of sometimes unpredictable outcomes.These spaces allow for the expression of many voices: of artists, engineers...and of participants from the general public, which will contribute to the development of new research directions.’
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the concpet of third space comes from a research project in 2015 named “understanding third space: evaluating art-science collaboration” published in a international symposium on electronic Arts Conference Papers. art-science is a heterogeneous field of creative research and production, characterised by the collaboration of artists and scientists and by research combining scientific and aesthetic investigation. third space emerge when art-science intersect with the public domain. ‘a site of trans disciplinary engagement, enquiry and knowledge production that plays a vital role in the contemporary research landscape’ the conclusion of this particular study suggests that the significance for institutions involved in art-science development is potentially far reaching. rather than taking place purely in a lab or research unit, art-science takes the form of a “public experiment” or “living
laboratory”, eabling knowledge creation to happen within public space.
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D E S I G N S T R A T E G I E S & D E V E L O P M E N T KEY OBJECTIVES C AT E G O R I E S O F S PA C E D E TA I L E D B R I E F D E S I G N S T R AT E G I E S DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between art & science
introduce art & design faculty into the unsw kensington
engage with the public
enrich randwick’s artistic landscape
four key objectives resulted from research
research
making
student housing/ regiment
exhibition
administration
learning
public
categories of space
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prescribed uses: - Student Housing - Replacement - Additional - Uses complementary to NIDA - Student services in the context of UNSW Global & the point of arrival at university - Floor space for an innovation campus component - UNSW regiment - Gym - Weapon Storage - Gear Storage - Logistics - Barracks - Staff & Training - Car park - Teaching /Learning facilities - An active ground plane - CafĂŠ/Restaurant - Shop(s) - Public outdoor space - Car park
gfa 8442 m2|206 units|319 bed|15.1m2 min. 80 bed|20 m2 |approx. 3000 m2
600 m2 50 m2 80 m2 350 m2 350 m2 300 m2 secured
other uses: - 10 UNSW Art & Design Research Labs - Collaboration spaces (flexible) - Workshops - Testing labs - Loading zone - Teaching spaces - Seminar rooms/Theatre - Classrooms - Student centre
10 x 100 m2 500 m2 1000 m2 5 x 25 m2 800 m2
- Library - Resource centre - Staff office - Teaching staff/researchers room - Administration - Common area - Storage - Independent studios
250 m2 200 m2 300 m2
- CafĂŠ/Restaurant - Shop(s) - Car park
250 m2
- Reception - Main gallery space - Entry foyer (Lobby) - Performance space in various sizes - Multifunction rooms - Office
2 x 100 m2 6 x 50 m2 80 m2
20 x 15 m2
30 m2 2000 m2 200 m2 2 x 300 m2 4 x 40 m2 | 2 x 130 m2 100 m2
- Services - Bathrooms - Lifts - Stairs - End of trip facilities -
Circulation space
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nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
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tyree
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day ave nue
p a ra d
new college
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design strategy | pedestrianising anzac parade
to activate anzac parade by eliminating traffic, keeping light rail on the
ground like the european boulevard typology. the new facility activities can be spilled out to the pedestrian zone. together with nida, roundhouse and potential new facilities if old building like squarehouse get demolished, a cultural precinct can be created.
nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
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tyree
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day ave nue
p a ra d
new college
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design strategy | public plaza
to finish the university mall with a public plaza where students, staff, randwick public can gather and enjoy the activities in the new facilities.
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nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
y m a ll
tyree
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day ave nue
p a ra d
new college
u n iv e rs it
design strategy | terminating the mall with building
the other end of university mall in terminated by the scientia building,
as a respond the west end of the mall should be terminated by another impoartant building instead of looking into the backyard of houses on doncaster avenue.
nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
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tyree
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day ave nue
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new college
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design strategy | private courtyard
a private courtyard for people in the new facilities provides place of relaxation away from the public, it can also act as a buffer between the new facility and the rear of houses on doncaster avenue.
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nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
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y m a ll
tyree
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day ave nue
p a ra d
new college
design strategy | vehicle access
existing nida loading has to be maintained as well as the existing carpark entry in new college. there has to be setback from the west boundary for truck and vehicle access.
nida roundhouse
project site
anzac
y m a ll
tyree
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day ave nue
p a ra d
new college
u n iv e rs it
design strategy | continuation of building frontage
to determine building form, reference in drawn from nida and new college to match with the existing streetscape.
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initially emphasis is placed on the pedestrianised plaza and buildings connection to the plaza.
sketch | building axo
sketch | building openings
sketch | exterior perspective
sketch | plaza plan
sketch | interior perspective 43
playing with single and double height space of different parts of building, articulating the spatial quality and user’s experience. difference in height of space can also direct and emphasise functions behind.
sketch | colonnade around plaza
sketch | height of space upon entering
sketch | alignment of underground exit
the approach of bring people up from underground is to integrate one exit point in part of the building and another in a integrated pavilion of kiosk and light rail waiting area. 44
sketch | underground exit
at some point of the building the structural grid shifted and result in a load bearing cantiliver. post-tensioned concrete beam is required fro this particular structure.
sketch | structure
since void is introduced throughout the building, skylight is added for sunlight but adjustable solar control louvres are also added, for diffused or direct light depending on the activities. sketch | roof louvures
sketch | facade details
sketch | east louvres facade
sketch | west green facade
using terracotta on the east facade as a response to other campus buildings in unsw and the strong ground floor concrete structure. horizontal louvres is used to break up the strong verticality of the ground floor colonnade. green wall structure of planter boxes with steel mesh is used on the west facade for solar and heat mitigation.
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site plan | 1:4000
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nida
roundhouse
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y m a ll
new college tyree day ave nue
anzac p a ra d e public domain plan | 1:2000
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anzac p a ra d e e tunn l
basement plan | 1:2000
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cafe/bar
entry foyer
underground exit
courtyard
exhibition/ event space
student housing lobby
regiment
coworking space
kiosk
underground exit
university mall
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kiosk
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cafe
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new college
ground floor plan | 1:500
studi
regiment
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kitchen
common area
io apartment
four bedroom apartment
typical regiment & student housing plan | 1:250 53
research staff office
forum
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admin staff office
exhibition staff office
common area
office
first floor plan | 1:250 55
multifunctional spaces
library
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multifunctional spaces
child care
common area
event space event space
second floor plan | 1:250 57
research lab
research lab
common collaborative area
research lab
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common collaborative are
research lab
research lab
research lab
research lab
research lab
multifunctional rooms
common collaborative area
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research lab
research lab
multifunctional rooms
thrid floor plan | 1:250 59
flexible classroom
flexible classroom
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flexible class
common collaborative ar
seminar room
seminar room
flexible classroom
artists studios
sroom
flexible classroom
flexible classroom
artists studios
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artists studios
artists studios
fourth floor plan | 1:250 61
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cross section | 1:500
long section | 1:500 63
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north elevation | 1:500
east elevation | 1:500 65
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south elevation | 1:500
west elevation | 1:500 67
skylight
operable louvres
glulam post & beam CLT-concrete composit floor
concrete frame
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isometric | building structure
glulam post & beam CLT-concrete composit floor
facade glazing panel
terracotta verticl & horizontal louvres
concrete frame
isometric | facade assembly 69
skyli
queen post pperable
planter boxes
steel mesh
steel grate walkway
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t beam with e louvres
terracotta vertical & horizontal louvres
glulam post & beam structure
concrete-CLT composite floor
concrete posttensioned beam
upward bifold doors
detailed section | 1:100 71
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west facade elevation | 1:100
east facade elevation | 1:100 73
terracotta vertical louvres terracotta horizontal louvres
concrete-CLT composite floor
fixing
glulam beam
mullion fixing
spandrel panel
ceiling space for services
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facade connection detail | 1:10
gutter
terracotta vertical louvres
terracotta horizontal louvres
fixing
glulam beam
mullion fixing
spandrel panel
ceiling space for services
roof detail | 1:10
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perspective through university mall
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perspective through plaza
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perspective through plaza
perspective through plaza
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perspective through light rail stop
perspective from roundhosue
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perspective through plaza
perspective through foyer
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perspective through exhibition space
perspective through exhibition space
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east louvre facade
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west green facade
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perspective through common area
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perspective throughresearch space
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perspective through collabortion space
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perspective through collabortion space/artise studios
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