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ABOUT US
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
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OUR TEAM
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DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CENTRE OF ADVANCED DESIGN IN ENGINEERING TRAINING
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FEDERATION UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING SKILLS CENTRE FEDERATION COLLEGE
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KANGAN INSTITUTE AUTOMOTIVE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE STAGE 2
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UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY SPECIALTY LABORATORIES
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MONASH UNIVERSITY LAW CHAMBERS
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OUR VISION IS TO CREATE AN INSPIRED FUTURE WITH BEAUTIFUL, AUTHENTIC AND CONSIDERED PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE THE WAY PEOPLE WORK, LEARN AND LIVE.
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Gray Puksand is an Australian architecture and integrated design practice with studios in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The human experience is at the heart of everything we create. Working across multiple sectors, from education and commercial architecture to workplace and retail design, our design process begins with investigating and truly understanding our clients’ desires and aspirations. We employ our extensive knowledge, research and excellence in design to create future-proof environments. Individually, we are accomplished, curious, imaginative designers. Collectively, we are a diverse national team, applying a consistent design methodology to deliver successful projects for our clients and the people who inhabit them.
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ARCHITECTURE AT GRAY PUKSAND, WE BELIEVE THAT FUTURE ARCHITECTURE MUST GO BEYOND ‘FUNCTIONAL ART’. WE ARE PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED BY ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, FACILITY FLEXIBILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS.
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We embrace change with a commitment to research and innovation in design, construction methodology and materials. We believe great architecture is not created quickly; it is a result of careful planning and forward thinking. Our design process is rigorous and collaborative, involving a lateral exploration and testing of ideas against all outcomes to ensure that your project is viable and unique. In order to achieve timeless designs with integrity, we focus on consistency throughout development, from the macro concepts through to the micro detailing.
Effective design requires the synthesis of the complex into the beauty of simplicity; the result must be authentic and fulfill your requirements. At the heart of our approach are some key guiding principles: Buildings must be ecologically sustainable without additional cost or sacrifice to comfort. Architectural spaces, whether internal enclosures or external landscaped zones between buildings, must have inherent flexibility, providing inbuilt margin without wasted area.
The occupants of our buildings are not ’shoehorned’, rather the internal design and functional requirements dramatically influence the external envelope. Above all, a thorough understanding of site ethos, ecology, microclimate and social environment is critical to our process to ensure the successful integration of built forms into the natural, urban or campus landscape.
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INTERIOR DESIGN OUR HOLISTIC APPROACH ALLOWS GRAY PUKSAND TO DELIVER WELL-PLANNED AND VISUALLY STIMULATING INTERIOR DESIGN SOLUTIONS THAT WORK HAND-INHAND WITH THE ARCHITECTURE, ACROSS A DIVERSE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES.
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We view interior design as a vital component in any space design. Our interior design team collaborates with colleagues across disciplines to deliver truly integrated design solutions. We are well known for our ability to sensibly refurbish older buildings, recognised in particular for the commercial success that our refurbishments realise. We will work with texture, form, colour, light, and shade to shape a sensory experience for your environment.
By leveraging our extensive knowledge and experience, we will ensure that your space looks great and is designed with the human experience in mind, to positively affect behavior and perception. The diversity of our work is testament to our commitment to crafting individual design solutions that are tailored to your requirements. With each project, we set ourselves a challenge to exceed your expectations and create delight with something original and new, without compromise to function and budget.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN WE BELIEVE THE INTEGRATION OF GRAPHIC DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS CAN GO BEYOND A MERE BRANDING ACTIVITY TO TRANSFORM A SPACE AND REALISE THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF A DESIGN CONCEPT WITH MAXIMUM IMPACT.
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Effective environmental graphic design connects people to their space by personalising their experience of it. The space then becomes unique, with an identity that is inspirational rather than merely functional. The space can communicate and support a brand's core values or act more as a psychological trigger, intended to have a direct impact on the mental wellbeing of those people that occupy the space, which in turn can dramatically effect productivity.
The in-house Gray Puksand graphic design team is integral to our offering of a fully collaborative and comprehensive service. Our range of graphic design services includes branding and visual identity design, environmental graphics and way-finding, signage standards development, merchandising and collateral development including campaign strategies and advertising. Our graphic design team is committed to delivering innovative graphic design solutions that continually redefine new communication standards.
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OUR TEAM DESIGNS AND DELIVERS EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR TODAY AND THE FUTURE. WE CRAFT CUSTOMISED SOLUTIONS THAT ARE ADAPTABLE, ENDURING AND DESIGNED TO EMPOWER THE PROCESS OF LEARNING.
We do not believe in one-size-fits-all architecture. We offer an individual, tailored approach. Our success is based on the ability to coordinate and liaise with a diverse range of project stakeholders to achieve high quality outcomes that reflect your aims and aspirations. We are adept at working with clients in the government, public, and private sectors across a range of delivery models for projects big and small, near and far. Our portfolio includes early learning centres, primary and secondary private schools (government and private), specialist trade training centres, and university and TAFE facilities. We take the time to research and consider the forces of modern culture on education design and delivery. This includes keeping up to date with the new freedoms and opportunities presented by technology, and understanding the impact of the growing trend toward lifelong learning cycles.
As the lines between our learning, work, and social spheres continue to blur, the multidisciplinary nature of our practice allows us to collaborate and apply relevant knowledge and innovations from other sectors. It’s important to have a strong, reliable team to advise and guide you confidently through this process. Our knowledgeable and skilled inhouse team has extensive first hand experience in designing and delivering high quality educational facilities. We focus on delivering innovative outcomes, boosted by our ongoing collaboration with leading independent education researchers. This adds a unique layer of scientific, evidence-based thinking to our work. Environmental Sustainable Design (ESD) is an integral part of our service. By addressing spatial flexibility, we help you achieve more with less. This focus delivers inherent sustainability not only in the original design, but also your ongoing use.
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DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CENTRE OF ADVANCED DESIGN IN ENGINEERING TRAINING UNIQUE IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT, MODELLED ON INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND INFORMED BY A NEW LEARNING MODEL WHICH WILL SUPPORT A RICH LEARNING COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS AND STAFF INTEGRATED AND UNIFIED ACROSS ALL ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION.
At the outset of the project, the client leadership identified a need for the building to be a unique facility which facilitates a different approach to the teaching of engineering, embedding research activity, emphasising design and with a curriculum aligned to both school and industry needs. Traditional fields of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Chemical Engineering were to be seamlessly re-visioned and united, supported by the concept of Project Oriented Design Based Learning Through an extensive exploration of the learning model alongside international examples and review of learning space typologies, planning teams from existing curriculum streams worked collaboratively to establish a facility brief for a new type of engineering facility, consistent with and supportive of the new pedagogy.
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By placing key emphasis on Research, Design and Collaboration at the centre of the new curriculum, the planning team was able to realise a series of new spaces and functional relationships which would support the cultural change necessary for students and staff transitioning from the traditional modes of learning and working. With shared design studios, product realisation workshops, large studio based specialist laboratories, numerous informal spaces for interaction and collaboration and a unique academic staff workplace environment, CADET is well placed to become an outstanding example of possibilities for the next generation of Engineering graduates in Australia.
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THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROJECT IS DEMONSTRATED IN A SEAMLESS TRANSITION BETWEEN LEARNING SPACES – CONNECTING CLASSROOMS TO INDEPENDENT LEARNING SETTINGS AND LEARNING COMMONS. A SENSE OF BELONGING WAS ESTABLISHED WHICH PROMOTES SOCIAL INTERACTION AND SELF DIRECTED LEARNING.
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A key aspect of the facility planning which informed the basis of much of the spatial planning and functional relationships was the desire for an inherent flexibility in each space and consideration of how the building would respond to ongoing changes in curriculum, research, technology and industry requirements. Adoption of large floor plates across the main learning areas, uniformity in column grids and provision of larger structural spans, coupled with minimal load bearing internal walls will assist in future proofing the capital investment in CADET.
Many of the internal areas have been positioned not only for functional, spatial and infrastructure requirements, but by their ability to be reconfigured, expanded or re-fitted for other uses.
This resulted in many of the originally briefed spaces being re-visioned as more flexible learning or specialist environments capable of supporting a diverse range of functions and curriculum models.
By exploring access and usage of strategic equipment and highly serviced technical areas, the planning teams were able to develop an understanding of “how to do things better�.
By ensuring a diverse mix of learning settings, open flexible workspace and easily reconfigured studio environments, many areas within CADET are able to adapt on a regular basis to the needs of the student, the project underway, the curriculum and industry requirements.
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FEDERATION UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING SKILLS CENTRE FEDERATION COLLEGE THESE CO-LOCATED ORGANISATIONS SHARE COMMON FACILITIES TO MAXIMISE SPATIAL EFFICIENCIES, EDUCATIONAL SYNERGIES, PROMOTE INFORMAL COLLABORATION AND ATTAIN SUSTAINABLE OBJECTIVES. THE MAIN GRANT STREET ENTRANCE ACTS AS COUNTERPOINT BETWEEN THE SYMBOLIC FACADES, CREATING A STREET PRESENCE AND IDENTITY FOR EACH FACILITY.
The MESC brief was to provide state of the art facilities for light and heavy fabrication as well as mechanical, robotic and mechatronic labs. Ballarat has a long history of manufacturing through development of traditional skills base. Evident in the car manufacturing industry, the manufacturing and skills industries face significant challenges to modernise and increase technical skills. While such change is commercially led by industry restructuring, the technical skills are developed in institutions such as MESC. Hence significant engagement with industry was conducted to ensure MESC was “on the right track” for contemporary industry requirements and adaptation for future change. Symbolism for technical change was identified as an important factor by MESC and industry representatives.
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In response, the sculptured MESC building is derived as an analogous form of a ‘machined metal block’ with the ‘fractal’ external cladding conceived from the nanotexture of metal at a microscopic level. The hi-tech textured pattern combined with the traditional elements of the ‘factory tin shed’ reflects Ballarat’s manufacturing industry.
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FedCol, the second brief, was to deliver an education facility that focused on providing learning pathways with a technical emphasis for VOCAL training. The centre enables hands-on learning programs that distil industry specific skills, work-related skills, literacy, numeric and personal development relevant to life and work. Additionally, ‘the facility provides support for technically minded students whom have further university aspirations’.
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Post construction, the brief expanded within FedCol ‘to cater for a wider range of international students to learn or improve English skills and provide a clear pathway towards employment or further study, depending on their goals,and increasing access to the local community’.
As a consequence of merging the buildings, direct links to the external courtyard landscaping were challenged. Vibrant and recognisable environmental graphics were added to enliven the experience and enhance student ownership of the FedCol student centered learning cohort.
THE ARCHITECTURE MANIFESTS ITSELF IN THE FORM OF ICONIC TRIANGULATED PATTERNS, DEPICTING EMERGING PATHWAYS THAT CONFRONT TODAY’S YOUTH AND AIMS TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT NURTURE EDUCATION AND INDIVIDUAL GROWTH.
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The co-located buildings share common facilities, which maximise spatial efficiencies, educational synergies, promote informal collaboration between the two organisations and attain sustainable objectives. Developed to 5 star equivalent design standards, the design team collaborated with Federation University’s sustainability direction with emphasis for a low carbon building.
The building is naturally ventilated with activated heating and cooling via underground water storage tanks, which are heated and cooled via solar collectors. Super insulation compliments the passive design to form a holistic sustainable approach. Daylight harvesting, energy efficient lighting, gas fired heating, integrated BMS, rainwater harvesting, water saving fixtures and xeroscape landscaping, commingled recycling, together with significant contamination retention form an exemplar sustainable building. The sustainable approach is on display through promotional targets, while forming a ‘DNA’ within the learning environment.
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KANGAN INSTITUTE AUTOMOTIVE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE STAGE 2 THE PROJECT BRIEF REQUIRED A REPLACEMENT OF THE DRACONIAN NOTION OF THE ‘GREASE MONKEY’ WITH THE RESPECTED AND VALUED OFFER OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION.
The Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) provides an opportunity to bring collaborative learning to the heart of the Docklands, serving as a central and iconic statement within it’s urban context. This is a building set in the public realm offering an enhanced sense of ‘soul’ to the extended south west corner of the Melbourne CBD. Built to the boundaries of a complex site configuration to conform with height restrictions, the form of the building is beginning to emerge. A seamless connection to Stage One is evident internally in a cohesive approach, and externally,an opportunity to interpret and augment the existing structure. Stage One remains as the main visitor address for the facility and the chevron patterned facade, referencing roadside graphics, provides the backdrop for campus development.
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The second stage provides a new and central entry for student and visitor. It explores a didactic interpretation of the automotive industry, contemporary learning and environmental sustainability. This new facility demonstrates a robust and muscular aesthetic in juxtaposition with delicate surface treatment of a highly detailed facade. This detailed and complex layering of elements is a metaphor for the machine as object of desire. This is dramatically demonstrated in the hero shield, a facade that peels away to reveal the chassis, crafted moving parts, electronic elements and referencing of future technologies.
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Moving around all facades these elements respond passively to environmental conditions, simultaneously allowing controlled daylight into the building whilst maintaining a sense of transparency and permeability. The new building conforms to a pre-existing harmony created by the patterning of the existing structure but extends actively into its environment contributing and raising the quality of the entire campus. Internally the spaces encourage collaboration and movement.
Testing and diagnostic training is now a collaborative learning activity involving international industry partnership and extensive use of information and communication technologies. Innovation is encouraged by placing distinctly different disciplines adjacent one another, bring virtually all aspects of automotive training under one roof. In this way cross collaboration, self determined learning and creative project based activities can be organised.
Learning is always on central stage with a seamless flow between resource commons, a variety of technology rich learning settings and double height training spaces. The old notion of the workshop does not exist in this facility, rather the components of the automotive industry are located in an environment more akin to a laboratory.
The new building, integrating Stage One, now represents a unified single form with a foot print size of approximately 7,000m2. This represents a vast plan area over four levels, but the variety of facade treatments and unified pallet of materials results in reduced mass and human scale. The reduction of scale is an import contribution within the urban context. The magnitude of the activities within are belied by the unified complexity of the external facades.
Detailed landscaping provides a sense of place with purposeful amenity and social breakout spaces. This attention to external usability extends to the top of the building where an external green roof serves as additional area for industry events and administration staff. Continuing on the success of the Stage One environmental contribution for the office spaces, the new structure has achieved a 5 Star Green Star rating under the GBCA education tool for the entire new facility. The project has already received a Vic Urban Award of Excellence. The desire for this project however was to extend the environmental lesson to the public observer and user alike. The building as a centre for learning has the responsibility to go further and therefore displays a number of features that display an active fit into an environmentally aware culture.
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UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY SPECIALTY LABORATORIES GRAY PUKSAND HAS COMPLETED A PORTFOLIO OF RESEARCH AND LABORATORY SPACES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY ACROSS SEVERAL CAMPUSES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. THESE FACILITIES ARE LOCATED AT DARLINGHURST AND CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS, CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY AND THE WESTMEAD HOSPITAL.
The projects include a state of the art environmental research facility, a variety of PC2 compliant laboratories, postgraduate study areas and on campus independent living and learning facilities. In addition to our clients aspirational brief, each of the research, laboratory and testing facilities were required to be designed and operate in accordance with clearly defined parameters established through integration of spatial design guidelines, faculty accommodation guidelines, campus facility management criteria and current OH&S and statutory regulations.
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IEQ LABORATORY At the Faculty of Architecture, within the existing multilevel Wilkinson Building, our office worked collaboratively with a cross disciplinary team, utilising Building Information Management technology and 3D imaging to develop the most advanced environmental testing chamber in the southern hemisphere. The Indoor Environment Quality Laboratory comprises two unique purpose built climate chambers constructed within an existing building shell. The current fit out of the chambers simulates a small scale commercial office environment, however each chamber has been planned to enable future reconfiguration to any one of a number of alternative simulated interior scenarios.
Within the chamber, researchers can examine how strategic IEQ factors such as temperature, humidity, air movement, ventilation, air quality, daylight and artificial lighting, sound and acoustics each interact to determine occupant comfort, productivity and health outcomes. As they undertake tasks consistent with the research exercise, occupants will be exposed to a variety of environmental conditions within each space. Outside the chamber, a range of internal and external environmental conditions can be precisely controlled by an operator through a state of the art computer monitoring system. As part of the design, the perimeter walls of each chamber are adjacent to what is termed an “environmental corridor” used to simulate a variety of “external” day lighting and temperature conditions, independent of the actual climate outside the base building envelope.
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FACULTY OF SCIENCE, PC2 LABORATORY
PC 2 LABORATORIES One of the PC2 laboratories is at the Edgeworth David building. The facility is located on the top floor of and was originally a large rabbit warren of dark and damp rooms. The perimeter of the building is has large Victorian sash windows. Gray Puksand created a large open plan laboratory penetrated by natural light. The laboratory has various equipment and their required services including fume cupboards, bio safety cabinets, chemical traps and showers. The result is a sound architectural and service co-ordinated design that complies with the comprehensive regulatory requirements. The space is now a safe, inviting, ordered and organised testing facility for all of the students.
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A second state of the art PC2 laboratory has been successfully integrated within the spatial limitations of the existing heritage Pharmacy and Bank Building. Constrained by a limited floor area, but benefitting from existing high ceilings and good levels of natural daylight, this new PC2 compliant facility has been effectively planned to create a spacious open plan laboratory area with a separate tissue culture area and series of post- graduate rooms. Within the space, careful attention to detail has resulted in a highly controlled laboratory environment with purposeful specialist joinery and laboratory grade fixtures, utilisation of clean and impervious surfaces, control of natural and artificial lighting, and a highly responsive array of building services to accommodate risks associated with use of chemicals, gas and bacteria.
As evidenced through the variety of functional parameters and technical diversity of each of these projects, our office has developed a thorough understanding of university procedures and regulatory requirements prudent to technical laboratories and research based learning facilities.
FACULTY OF PHARMACY, PC2 LABORATORY
DISPENSING PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORY Gray Puksand approached the renewal by providing a design that respected and enhanced the historic qualities of the original building, introducing a clean contemporary fitout with exposed services. The new dispensing laboratory comfortably accommodates a larger number of students with new lab benches fitted with networked computers, a series of teaching stations, clean-up stations, and a series of WHS equipment, including safety showers and height adjustable benches. New display cases house traditional chemical bottles and containers from the past which respond to the professions rich history and tradition.
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THIS STATE OF THE ART RESEARCH FACILITY ENABLES STAFF AND STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW HUMANS AND BUILDING MATERIALS RESPOND TO A RANGE OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS WHICH MAY ASSIST IN DETERMINING FUTURE ASPECTS OF OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
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MONASH UNIVERSITY LAW CHAMBERS A DEDICATED POST-GRADUATE TEACHING FACILITY WITHIN THE MELBOURNE LAW PRECINCT. THE INTERIOR SPACES WERE CONFIGURED TO SUPPORT CONTEMPORARY LEARNING IN A VARIETY OF SPACES, EITHER FORMALLY IN A FLEXIBLE LEARNING SPACE OR VIA SHARED SPACES WHICH ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION.
The Monash University Law Chambers had to relocate from their existing premises in Bourke Street and this provided an opportunity to plan for future expansion and improved amenity for the increasing number of postgraduate students and staff. The requirements for the premises were for flexible teaching spaces with readily reconfigurable furniture, student support services workplace, academic offices and hot desks for staff from the other campus, plus facility management offices. A ‘front door’ at street level and an impressive entry space (Wow factor) was important to reinforce the quality and value of the facility. A flexible area was required which could be used for lectures and presentations and offered for hire to other Monash departments and outside organisations. This would be supported by ancillary spaces such as a reheat kitchen and storage area. Students were to be encouraged to stay on the premises and study individually or collaboratively. This would require informal ‘living room’ relaxed spaces and more formal areas with computers and enclosed spaces for group discussions.
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Challenges included: The integration with base building upgrade works The issues which arise from working within an existing building (e.g. Disruption to other tenants) Ensuring separation of students from other tenants in the building Integration with requirements of an adjoining retail tenant Meeting technical requirements of an education facility Challenges were met by regular meetings with the project team (including Monash University personnel) and building owner representatives from the beginning of the project and when issues arose, the usual site meetings and negotiations. The new Chambers is rapidly acquiring iconic status as a Monash presence in the city.
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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY SHEPPARTON CAMPUS CONSISTENT WITH THE INFLUENCES OF MODERN PEDAGOGY, THE DESIGN OF THIS BUILDING DEMONSTRATES A DIDACTIC AESTHETIC. THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE FORM, REFINED SURFACE TREATMENT AND CONFIDENT USE OF COLOUR DISPLAY AN ICONIC VISION FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING.
In juxtaposition to the simplicity of the external metallic panelling, a layer of dramatic sun shading has been applied. A seemingly vibrating arrangement of boxes, randomised and arranged like DNA diagrams, is a reference to health and discovery. The colour and form of this motif was further inspired by transport logistics of the local fruit growing industry, dramatically connecting the building contextually. La Trobe University, G.O. TAFE and the Greater Shepparton City Council identified an opportunity to create a tertiary education precinct in the heart of Shepparton. Sculpturally, this building responds to both master planning and environmental complexities. The vision for future connection with G.O. TAFE informed major entry points. The predominantly unfenistrated portions of the faรงade constantly change in tone depending on the angle of the sun, further modelling the dramatic form of the building. Low-level glazing to the perimeter provides a sense of transparency and permeability to activities within.
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The ubiquitous nature of information and communication technologies has resulted in moving away from conventional lecture theatres into ICT rich, adaptable environments that interconnect via operable walls to shared student hubs and breakout zones.
Fundamental to contemporary educational environments is the need to provide a variety of learning settings. The menu of spaces include areas for large group interaction, one on one study, presentation and individual study nooks; resulting in true flexibility and educational spaces with a purposeful variety. The installation of indigenous art has been designed into the interiors to augment a contextual connection with the land and community.
AIA 2011 ARCHITECTURE AWARD - VICTORIAN CHAPTER AWARD, REGIONAL PRIZE
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A piece by Jack Maranbarra located adjacent the main student entry represents an artistic synergy of place and learning. The ‘Waangarra Spirit Figures’ are a metaphor or education, equipping the young with knowledge and understanding. Jointly funded by government sources and La Trobe University the new campus offers degrees in Accounting, Nursing, Education, Business and Arts, and is one of La Trobe’s five regional campuses. Within a fixed budget this project has exceeded the original brief providing a new aesthetic in educational interiors, without additional cost to the university. Environmentally the building form responds passively, providing high levels of natural day light through extensive shaded glazing. It has achieved a 5 Star Green Star rating under the GBCA Education Tool.
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Additionally, the recycling of vermilion perspex panels from the demolition of a separate La Trobe University facility enabled the design of stair ballustrading and glazed internal walls, inspiring a departure from the external colour scheme and adding a brilliant red glow to the interior.
The building has achieved a 5 Star Green rating under the GBCA Education Tool. ESD Initiatives:
This project evolved out of extensive user group workshops during all phases of the design. According to the director of the new campus, Elizabeth Lavender, ‘If you live in the Goulburn Valley, La Trobe University offers flexibility, progressive and modern facilities.”
Improved air quality
High levels of natural light, extensive and targeted glazing Low energy usage and daylight harvesting Sensor controlled energy efficient lighting Active Mass Cooling with displacement ventilation Cooling water provided to slabs (Aquifer Thermal Storage) Renewable energy from solar hot water The installation of high efficiency fittings and appliances Metering and monitoring water resources Utilising grey-water or rainwater for landscape irrigation via subsoil drip systems.
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$13.0M Academy of Design Australia LCI Education Conversion and Refurbishment of Existing Heritage Building, Collingwood, Melbourne $54.0M Deakin University Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training, Waurn Ponds $18.0M Federation University Australia Manufacturing Engineering Skills Centre (MESC), SMB Campus, Ballarat $9.0M Federation University Australia Federation College (FedCol), SMB Campus, Ballarat $8.7M
La Trobe University Learning Centre, Shepparton Campus
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Macquarie University Simulation Hub, Macquarie Park
$2.0M Macquarie University Physiotherapy Stage 2 and 3 Refurbishment, North Ryde, Sydney $0.5M
Macquarie University Student Services, Sydney
$30.0M Macquarie University Law School Feasibility $0.25M Monash University MUMA, extensions to art gallery, Clayton Campus $15.0M Monash University Faculty of Law Refurbishment Feasibility, Clayton Campus * Monash University Master Palette Clayton Campus
$0.25M Monash University Building 3A, Security Upgrade / Foyer Refurbishment, Clayton Campus
* University of New England New Science and Technology Building, Armidale
$5.8M Monash University Law Chambers 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
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University of Technology Sydney Student Study Lounge, Sydney
$1.0M
University of Technology Sydney Design Innovation Centre, Sydney
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University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law Refurbishment, Sydney
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Ridley College Masterplan, Melbourne
$0.35M Swinburne University of Technology Student Services Centre, Hawthorn $0.8M Swinburne University of Technology Chemistry Laboratory, Hawthorn $0.3M Swinburne University of Technology Library Refurbishment, Hawthorn $5.0M Swinburne University of Technology L2A Building, Hawthorn $0.5M University of New South Wales Faculty of Engineering, Micro Computed Tomography Scanner (Radiation) Laboratory, Sydney $18.0M University of Ballarat Technology Park, Industry Research Training Facility, Mt Helen Campus $8.0M University of Ballarat TEC Hub (UBTec), SMB Campus $0.39M University of Ballarat Building T, Open Learning Space, Mt Helen Campus $2.4M
University of Ballarat Building F, Mt Helen Campus
$12.0M University of Melbourne Janet Clarke Hall Masterplan
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$0.7M University of Sydney Faculty of Science, New PC2 Laboratory, Sydney $0.7M University of Sydney Faculty of Pharmacy, New PC2 Laboratory, Sydney $1.0M University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry, Dentistry Laboratory, Sydney $0.4M University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry, Student Areas, Sydney $0.2M University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine, Blackburn PC2 Laboratory, Sydney $4.0M University of Sydney Various Refurbishments Projects, Sydney $0.4M University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering, EIE Building, Sydney $0.4M University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences, Refurbishment of Occupational Therapy Facilities, Sydney
$1.0M University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture, New Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratories, Sydney $0.4M University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences, Nobel Biocare Centre for Oral Rehabilitation, Sydney $0.7M University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences, H Block PC2 Laboratories, Sydney $2.0M University of Sydney Westmead Hospital Clinical Suites and Laboratory for Faculty of Dentistry, Westmead, Sydney $2.0M University of Sydney Dispensing Pharmaceutical Laboratory, Pharmacy and Bank Building, Sydney $0.8M
University of Sydney John Woolley Building, Sydney
TAFE
ADULT LEARNING
$39.5M Advance TAFE Redevelopment, Stage 1, Port of Sale Campus
$30.0M Centre for Adult Education Masterplan, City Campus, Melbourne
$19.0M Chisholm Institute START Trade Training Centre, Frankston Campus N/A Chisholm Institute Masterplan for Berwick, Cranbourne and Dandenong Campuses
$3.0M Centre for Adult Education Independent Learning Centre, Melbourne $1.5M
Centre for Adult Education Services Hub, Melbourne
$85.0M Kangan Institute Automotive Centre of Excellence, Stage 2, Docklands, Melbourne $38.0M Kangan Institute Health Science Building, Broadmeadows $0.3M
Swinburne Institute of Technology Design Studio
$1.1M William Angliss Institute of TAFE Confectionery Laboratory / Lecture Theatre, Melbourne
$1.2M University of Sydney PC2 Laboratory, Camperdown Campus, Sydney
$1.2M William Angliss Institute of TAFE Cyber Centre, Learning Resource Centre and Staff Accommodation, Melbourne
$0.65M Victoria University Collaborative Classrooms, Footscray Park Campus
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William Angliss Institute of TAFE Angliss Restaurant, Melbourne
$0.4M William Angliss Institute of TAFE Unit Kitchen Teaching Facility, Melbourne
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CONTACT MELBOURNE
3/577 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 t +61 3 9221 0999 e melbourne@graypuksand.com.au
SYDNEY
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