Student work from the 2012 graduating Design Studio Master of Architecture University of Queensland_St Lucia © Copyright the University of Queensland School of Architecture, November 2012. Thank you to the fifty students and four staff who took place in the Studio; it was a fruitful contribution by all. Thanks also to all other members of the University of Queensland Property and Facilities who have assisted the students with their queries and very special thanks to this semester’s studio guests and critics: Richard Kirk, Michael Lavery, Fedor Medek, Assoc. Prof. Antony Moulis, Lecturer Tim O’Rourke, P&F Project Manager Tim Sweeney and P&F Director Alan Egan. Special thanks must go to Scott Hoffman from Blue Star Group for his time, patience and valuable advice for the publication. The 2012 UQ Architecture Graduate Publication has been generously supported by Cox Rayner Architects
Publication Committee_ I-Wen Kuo, Nicola Eason, Benjamin Sheehan, Jessica Spresser, Lynn Wang, Daniel Yu, Polina Zhalniarovich. Contributing students_ James Baker, Lizzie Bennet, Natasha Chee, Sunny Chen, Greg Clarke, Henry Coates, Michael Crosby, Marjorie Dixon, Nicola Eason, Xiao Feng, Leah Gallagher, Sasha Hakimian, Thomas Hartigan, Katie Hawgood, Steven Hodgson, James Hollanby, Garth Hsu, Oni Ieong, Liam Innes, I-Wen Kuo, Frankie Lau, Pyungwon Lee, Tzu-Yuan (Rex) Lin, David Liu, Kali Marnane, Tess Martin, Rachael McCall, Laura McConaghy, Nordiana Mohammad, Katy Moir, Scott Moore, Ami Nakayama, Yohei Omura, Jane Overington, Ariya Phathanachindakit, Calum Prasser, Patricia Redmond, Steph Ring, Darcy James Shapcott, Benjamin Sheehan, Jessica Spresser, Bach Peter Tran, Timothy Turner, Lynn Wang, Shane Willmett, Chuan Xiao, Daniel Yu (D.Y) , Polina Zhalniarovich. Website_ www.UQMArch12.com
UQ Graduate Exhibition Having provided that prize for the top UQ graduate in architecture, since 2001 on an informal arrangement with the University, it is pleasing that the University has now formally endorsed by the Senate, its official title being the Peter Hale Cox Rayner Prize for Architecture. The prize includes a $2,500 component to the graduate and the offer of employment at Cox Rayner, and the larger amount sponsoring the annual Final Year Exhibition. It is important to us that it has this name, as Peter Hale was a significant director of ours who died sadly at a relatively young age, and the prize keeps his memory alive. This year has been momentous for the School as it was externally reviewed for accreditation, and as an Adjunct Professor, I was glad to be interrogated about its graduate and research programs. I had no trouble doing this as in my observation the quality of student work being produced is up there with the best in Australia. In truth, this year was the first where I had a good look at design exhibitions of all the five levels, and was pretty astounded on a number of levels - the adventure in the type and location of projects, the field studies and research, the rigour of problem solving and finally the variety of communication techniques, no longer just reliant on technologies to astound but to authentically explain the ideas. I did ask John Macarthur during the year whether the increasingly higher OP admission to architecture that is occurring particularly at UQ has had any marked effect on what is being produced. I hope he doesn’t mind, but his response was “not really, they just work harder,” whether for that reason or not, the degree of commitment going into design project work in all
years is transparently evident, which I guess either suggests huge self-motivation or constant whipping by the tutors is succeeding! Either way, graduates will need both drive and lateral problem-solving more than ever entering the workforce. While there has been a slow-down in work as the Government tries to claw back the State’s deficit, it is a fascinating time to come out – firstly because there is a whole rethinking about the city’s urban design thinking occurring in State and Council, and secondly, because flowing from that different ideas will need to realise the changing philosophies. We expect that work will be difficult to come by for the next 6 months and then pick up as the State’s finances are stabilised, and hopefully no global calamities occur. As things improve, so will private sector confidence. The temporary slow-down may not be such a bad thing, as there are some significant issues to consider, although I admit firms may not be hiring too many new employees in the short term. I must say it was the same when I graduated (so long ago), and I got a job doing small crafted things for landscapes. That work still informs what I do now, so whatever you do I would beseech you try to make it something that continues your learning rather than necessarily remuneration. It is of great reward to use to offer the Prize again, not only to the student and the Architecture School. We love seeing what has been done in the School, and fostering in our small way new architects in Queensland to join many talented architects that have emerged in the past 10 years. Michael Rayner Director, Cox Rayner Architects
Not anticipated ‌ It has been a privilege to work with these graduating students. I have had exposure to the sophisticated thinking of a core group of this class twice; as third year students across various years in the first semester of their Bachelor of Architectural Design degree and again over the course of this year. In both semesters of 2012, I was struck by the extraordinary social cohesiveness displayed by the collective group; a spirit of generosity and co-operation so crucial to architectural design production that they will no doubt draw upon in future associations. A consistently high level of skill and critical enquiry has been displayed and a breadth of subtle experimentation brought to the tasks at hand. This was in evidence in the first semester where we speculated on a return of formal market facilities to the inner-city considered
against the current proliferation of temporary and informal fresh produce and other market types in Brisbane and the curious history of formal markets in the city presently located on the outskirts at Rocklea. This is a time of flux for architectural culture generally. As a side effect this creates opportunities for young architects to re-cast or validate the trajectories of their discipline. If architecture is an open question, the test of this cohort’s education will be the intelligence they bring to re-thinking architectural culture and how architecture can be practised in productive ways that are not necessarily anticipated. Andrew Wilson Program Director, Architectural Design
The architecture of teaching and vice versa The work documented here reveals in my opinion two substantial shifts in architecture education culture: the first reconsiders the architecture, the landscape and the planning of the spaces of teaching, learning and research; the second, concerns the teaching of architecture in this critical time. In addressing the present and future of the University of Queensland properties (fifty projects distributed along four campuses and four regional research stations) the projects in this catalogue show a new approach to the architecture, landscape and planning that this University has put in practice in the last 75 years. After three steady periods of building, identifiable with the foundation, growth and (the on-going) consolidation of the University and its campuses, the work presented here acknowledges to a large extent the necessity to work with the existing fabric, to value, transform (or discard) and extend or reduce what is there, rather than to propose new buildings. Many would think that this is largely due to lack of space or funds, but I am witness to the value that this generation of recent graduates give to the existing, and the struggles that they can work through in order to retain qualities and stories that previous generations would have discarded or ignored. In the long sessions of pin-ups and crits through which students, guests and advisors have sat together, the students have evidenced their interest in engaging with the larger setting, be it the city, the suburb, the community or the landscape in which their projects proposals sit. From the large scale prospect of re-envisioning the forecourt of the St Lucia Campus to address the city of Brisbane, to the low-key intervention on a remote research station in Camooweal to create a sense of urbanity and connection to place, all projects speak of a renewed relation to society, an open approach that embraces the participation, sense of belonging and enhanced liveliness of those who were previously cut off from the University grounds. The idea of campus as fortress and station as stronghold dissipates into an integrated approach where all parties seem to benefit, not least the University in these times where it seems knowledge is no longer connected to a physical place.
This catalogue of works can thus be read as a call to the University by its most recent architecture graduates to open up and connect to its surroundings, to set up a precedent in the city and in the State as universities should do and have often done. It seems as if this generation, one that presents itself disengaged from its environment but may be way more connected due to technology, is in fact one that, more than ever, advocates for being inclusive, bridging distances, sharing spaces, facilities and buildings, engaging with others in reading rooms, cafes and under croft spaces. The second shift I referred to above, concerns the teaching of architecture. It would not be by chance that this cohort of architecture students will be the first to graduate with a very minimal percentage of them working on a new building or on a green-field site. No matter how many sustainable parameters we may enforce or introduce in our architectural propositions there is a larger picture that has to be addressed, and it emerges as a clear option that the only solution is to decrease (contract or reduce) demand, consumption, cost, damage, scale… – a strategy which doesn’t match perhaps the expectations of corporations, big structures, large practices, but definitely meets the common sense of communities and individuals. Architecture can only benefit from this; instead of becoming the expression of lush, waste, high-cost or environmental destruction, architecture can display a concern and this is what I think a design studio can do. If this was achieved through this program it was largely due to the effort that students, staff and guests made to contract (decrease again) into a structure that could process, discuss and reframe each and every project, idea or concern –a structure that did not operate under instructions but under discussions, where the drafting tables and pinup boards were not used to lay the map for a distribution of tasks but for the deployment of sketches, ideas and conversation; a structure, commonly known as a Studio. Luis Feduchi Professor of Architectural Design
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The Avalon - St Lucia’s Backyard
Katy Moir
The history of the Avalon Theatre represents the potential problems a university faces when acquiring property outside the campus boundaries. The ownership of the place becomes unclear and can no longer be defined as public, private or institutional. Universities by nature are a very insular community, physically and metaphorically. The University of Queensland has a unique opportunity to shed this image through the Avalon. It was the intention of the project to reconfigure the site of the Avalon; a notional backyard in which the residents of St. Lucia can regain a place for the community. However, the project recognises the commercial realities of the site and the growing demand for high density housing. These two opposing ideas form the framework for the prototype that is St. Lucia’s Backyard. It is proposed that UQ can capitalise on the commercial value of the neighbouring properties (also owned by UQ) to fund the restoration of the Avalon and to establish a more open interface with the suburb of St. Lucia. 27
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Avalon Theatre - Community/Campus Connection
Jane Overington
The proposed project site is an amalgamation of five separate titles of land opposite Guyatt Park, which the University first commenced investing in in 1963. Recognising the potential of these lots in relation to their proximity to the St Lucia Campus, connection to public transport and flood-free topography, they sought to bank this land should the University require additional space. The University, now having consolidated these lots, has a significant portion of land they are interested in redeveloping. The University acknowledges that it has been facing a housing shortage for some time. It also understands that the housing types made available to students and staff does not meet their current needs. There is a particular lack of provision for other housing types which the University is interested to consider, this includes accommodation for visiting researchers, guests and external examiners. From the outset, it is clear that the coalescence of the University’s two interests make for an innovative design oriented proposition. 29
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Post-graduate Student Accommodation - Campus Edge Residence
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The site situated at the edge of the UQ campus and St Lucia suburb has a potential to reveal an aspect of UQ that is not yet apparent; the connectivity of two aspects. As to this significance and responsibility of building in this place, merging from low density housing condition to medium density college condition, and highly institutional density condition, the project must take a sensitive approach of scale of accommodation. The project is to respond to the topography of the site, encouraging the journey of the landscape to the visitors. The meandering form of the building provides various characters in which the outdoor spaces are framed. This suggests opportunity in creating courtyards for public / residents in relation with its surrounding programs. Due to the height difference of the site, the building is able to ‘build down’, as opposed to ‘build up’. This will minimise its overall height and keeping its scale below the height of existing trees. 31
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New Plant Growth Lab - Exposed Research
Michael Crosby
The University of Queensland has expressed an interest in expanding the Biological Sciences Precinct by undertaking a concept design study for a new glasshouse facility at St Lucia. The existing glasshouses were inundated with floodwater in January 2011 and a new facility is required to replace the existing glasshouses. The new building adopts a simple form, driven by program, user experience and the primary function of glasshouse spaces. Most of the support facilities are located on the ground level to avoid casting shadows onto the glasshouses. A key feature of this new facility is the flexible and adaptable glasshouse spaces, which provide freedom to combine or divide up in 25m2 increments. The proposed glasshouse facility utilizes a combination of strategic building design concepts and a campus orientated conceptual framework, and will pro- vide the university with a successful approach for the expansion of the Biological Sciences Precinct at St Lucia Campus. 33
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Hawken Student Village - Memory+Transition
Lynn Wang
of sensitivity: the proposal must integrate sensitively into the suburb, at the same time being reflective of the character and needs of the university through the means of transition in scale and material application. of memory: the existing structures worthy of being retained - houses which display the character of the suburb, are reprogrammed as public retail function. The demolition of dwellings leaves behind their brick plinths, which become the only site for public occupation and gathering. The building is inserted in leftover spaces, subtracted in relation to immediate context and provision of garden, light and recreational spaces. the prototype: a mixed use ground plan program without boundary fences necessitates interrogation of thresholds between public, communal and private space. Thresholds on the scale of the site, the awning, and the apartment are experimented. 35
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Hartley Teakle - Liminal Gateways
Laura McConaghy
This project explores the impact of an evolving context on a piece of architecture and attempts to use fixed elements of the site, such as the existing built form and topography, to generate a liminal space that enhances the experience of these elements and anchors itself to its site once more. The works of James Birrell are architecturally and culturally significant to the state of Queensland and any intervention must be well considered. The intervention displays a number of approaches to rejuvenating the ‘extruded bar’ typology including extrusion and the notion of the ‘counter form’. Further, the project acts as an informal student gateway to the university from the proposed bus station and car parking, acting as a counterpart to the formal entry of the Forgan Smith and Forecourt. The intervention seeks to introduce a hierarchy of scale to the constant exterior mass of the 1960s building in order to promote wayfinding and circulation on the site. 37
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JD Story Building - Same Problem in Other Spaces on Campus
Chaun Xiao
If we are walking in the campus, we can easily find this kind of space which is between the two high buildings. They are long and narrow. People can easily go into this space. However, not too many people want to use it. The reason is quite clear. My prototype is to change such enclosed and wild places to a friendly and welcome space so that more and more people can use them, but not just pass them. Currently, the land in the campus is more and more valuable. Students are eager to have more open space and landscape in the campus. However, we can see there are always many people in this open space. If we redesign this small space beside building, student can easily find a resting area just close to their school. However, how can we reuse this space? How can create a relationship between the buildings and landscape? In this design, I will mainly focus on these questions. 39
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UQ Art Museum - Value the Void, Remake the Edges
Rachael McCall
This project aims to move towards completing a missing piece of the Donovan Hill and Richard Kirk master plan for the University of Queensland but at the same time act as a prototype for a new planning strategy – valuing the void and remaking the edges. This is a prototypical strategy that could be deployed across the campus that involves increasing the area of buildings by ‘remaking their edges’ and void courtyard spaces at the heart of the campus. This strategy is the opposite to the general approach of filling any vacant wedge of ground with a new building, consequently generating poor amenity to that building’s own edges and the edges of all the buildings around it. The art museum extension re-calibrates transparency, entry and invitation to the art museum, as well as, investigating ‘open storage’ and development of a less conservative gallery space suitable for exhibiting contemporary art. 41
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Mansfield Place Redevelopment - Mediating Edges
Calum Prasser
Currently, Mansfield Place is exclusively a car park and service zone; the adjacent buildings address this road with “back-of-house� functions. The Mansfield Place Redevelopment aims to close the site permanently to vehicular access, creating a pedestrian zone, which consequently affects the address of new and existing buildings onto this space. The proposal for the site involves the expansion and reconfiguration of the Chancellery Place bus station linked to the Student Centre and International Office located in the J.D. Story Building. A series of retail, community and support program will service these existing functions, providing flexible spaces for multiple user groups, that fits into the greater campus ambitions of Circular Drive. Characterised as a semi-enclosed subtropical veranda edge, the main exhibition pavilion in Mansfield Place seeks to mediate the width of a large public space, making it more intimate for pedestrians, activating the edges of surrounding buildings. 43
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Skerman Building - Refurbishment
David Liu
This proposal is driven by the core idea of creating public space for students and staff of UQ by reducing the footprint of the existing building and increasing its density. The redevelopment includes the demolition of the ground floor plan, adding new functions such as student learning space, teaching and informal meeting rooms. The dense faรงade of the bottom floor is replaced with glazing to allow more transparency and connection to the surrounding courtyards, adding an atrium is another strategy employed to revitalize the building facades but also creating a thoroughfare and hub for informal and formal interaction between staff and students. The Tower will be added on to the west side of the building where the fire stair case are, creating more office and laboratory space for the School of Biomedical Science, the tower reactivates the west edge of the building and creating a new identity to the Skerman building. The redevelopment plan creates a catalyst and best practice model that can be applied to future redevelopment in UQ. 45
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UQ River Edge - An Esplanade for a Fortress
Leah Gallagher
This project is a prototype to reoccupy the abandoned St Lucia esplanade of the Brisbane River. The University of Queensland’s fortified flood planning has resulted in an abandoned edge condition and there is an opportunity for students and residents of St Lucia to make better use of this space. The master planning of the campus has removed key axis connections with the river and this project intends to give those former areas of importance a new function. The building programme includes a relocated CityCat Stop and additions to the existing UQ Rowing boathouse. Currently the CityCat stop is located at the end of the St Lucia Peninsula which goes against the idea that bridges cross the river at the tip of the peninsula and ferries cross at the widest point of the peninsula. These built forms will take cues from buildings that have lasted within the floodplain and reinterpret those which have not, from historical research into Brisbane’s River vernacular. 47
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A New Entry to the University of Queensland - Plane Negotiation
Shane Willmett
This project responds to a brief from the Properties & Facilities division of the University of Queensland, asking for a formal address to the university. The site, the Forgan Smith Forecourt, is charged with potential loaded by the original master plan of the Great Court. This response is envisaged as a new entry to the University of Queensland’s St Lucia Campus, it is a transformative opportunity fuelled by the influential nature of the ‘bus station’ as a prototype. It considers the sedimentary development of the campus and the previous responses to its master planning. This design seeks to forge relationships that will endure the growth of the campus and promote development north of the forecourt. The proposed composition of the forecourt is considered in three parts, the formal address, a new point of entry and the distribution into and through the campus. 49
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MacGregor Building - Refurbishment
Xiao Feng
The MacGregor building is a part of the science precinct scheme, built in the 1970s. The building condition is not suitable for the current environment, except level one, which has been refurbished recently. An open lab with glazed partitions has been built to replace the original cellular organization. It is quite successful. My project looks at activating the science precinct by creating a podium in the MacGregor building, which offers a physical and visual link between activated space and inactivated space in the science precinct. The ground and first level of the east wing will be demolished to create a podium, which is used as a pathway, a main entry and a foyer for the project and precinct. The existing main entry will be shifted from the first level to the ground level. The east wing will integrate with the landscape by creating a strong connection with the context. 51
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School of Chemistry - Refurbishment
Frankie Lau
The design of research buildings has conventionally focused on the work and learning done inside the laboratory. However it can be increasingly seen that this trend has been replaced. Institution buildings are now placing more emphasis on the social spaces within buildings and the role it plays in a student’s learning. The idea of spontaneous social interaction between academics has been a very powerful idea with regards to building design, having the influence to drastically change planning ideas. The Chemistry Building can be seen as the potential image of UQ Chemistry to the wider community. With very limited integration and lacking any real connection with the courtyard, the building stands alone, almost isolated from its context. The main design intention for the Chemistry Building refurbishment is to redevelop the existing program and planning with an injection of public and semi-public spaces. While at the same time reintegrate the Chemistry Building with its immediate context but also the wider UQ community. 53
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Molecular Biosciences Building - Redefining Research Building
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The redevelopment of the Molecular Biosciences Building is driven by the idea of transforming a traditional science building into a new-age research building and furthermore a successful campus building. The scope of work includes the master planning proposition of formalising an existing construction route to a designated service route, creating an active permeable ground plane, the refurbishment of the upper floors and the extension to incorporate additional programs. Following the six principals of design: identifying the existing condition; puncturing the building to create a physical and visual link to the courtyard; reinterpreting the core; creating a permeable ground plane; the programmatic extension on the upper floors and the internalization of the courtyard to transform traditional laboratory spaces, the project aims to create a catalyst and best practice model that can be applied to future redevelopment for research buildings in the University of Queensland. 55
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Redevelopment of Playing Field 5b - Reclaim the Hill_The Spectator’s Edge
Steph Ring
spectator | noun - a person who watches at a show, game, or other event | from spectare ‘gaze at, observe’. The enigma of a spectator and their arena- the paradox of creating a space that separates the active and the passive, drawing a line between sport and spectator. Philosopher Jacques Rancière probably describes this paradox best: it is to seek an opportunity to passively contemplate engaging in an activity, and in doing so, forfeit that life moment one might have used to actually engage in the activity. The idea of the spectator’s hill has historically been utilized as a naturally formed spectating grandstand, allowing non-distinct connections between the observer and the observed. The movement of landscape throughout a site allows for these spectating or observing moments to happen, broadening the idea of the role of spectators and encouraging them outside of the sporting arena, collaborating with general public and circulation areas, and further allowing development of alternate-use spectator areas in institutional applications. 57
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The Social Sciences Library - Reinstating an Identity
Lizzie Bennett
The Social Sciences Library was designed by Robin Gibson in 1973 and was later renovated in 1997 with the insertion of an under-ground link connecting the library with the Duhig tower. With the addition of a new structure and new entrance, the building’s presence on the campus was diminished. My project looks at reinstating the identity of the Social Sciences Library by restructuring circulation through the site, rearticulating points of entry, landscaping the surrounding area and renovating the existing library. The site has been organised around a series of views and circulation paths, with the addition of a cafÊ to act as a marker in the landscape to end the mall and frame the view towards the new library entrance. The original mall entry has also been reinstated. Two large voids in the library have been designed to create a strong social and spatial connection between levels, allow natural lighting into the deep plan and emphasise the primary circulation routes. 59
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The Parnell Building – Exploring Volume
Darcy James Shapcott
The Parnell Building is home to the School of Mathematics and Physics and was designed to be highly functional. The original brief was to refurbish level 2. However, following a careful analysis of the building and the site, it became clear that there was an opportunity to not only increase the teaching and learning density of the building, but to improve the site. Due to the building’s important location, it is vital that the project be sensitive to its heritage by retaining as much of the original sandstone structure as possible. With this in mind, I aim to take advantage of certain geometries within the building in order to activate unused volumes. These include internal spaces above the lecture theatre, and the addition of teaching and courtyard spaces on the roof. I also propose the addition of a new building to replace the current car park which will soon become obsolete. 61
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Frank White Building - Redrawing Connections + Refurb
Garth Hsu
The Frank White building was built in 1968, designed by Haynes and Scott Architects, along with a series of UQ buildings. It has historical significance to the University and provides a strong sense of place within the campus, offering a number of intriguing elements and material qualities. With the new Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), the Property and Facilities division of UQ have plans to relocate the upper two levels of the Frank White building over to the new facilities. The upper two levels, mainly consists of laboratory and office spaces. This proposal is based on the vacation of the upper two levels of the Frank White Building and identifying the opportunities in relocating a portion of the School of Architecture to fill this space. The brief was then developed to relocate the masters (M.ARCH) and research (PHD) sector to infill the upper two levels. The brief also incorporates the extension of the exhibition space and new proposed workshop space. 63
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Chamberlain Building - Defortification: Interstitial Symbiote
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The idea of Defortification refers initially to a physical breaking down of the traditional fortified built form found on the St Lucia Campus. More importantly, it refers to the way in which the implementation of contemporary learning spaces in a context aware container can be made to deconstruct or remove the barriers that exist in the traditional staff student hierarchy, as well as the relationship between campus and classroom. The Interstitial Symbiote prototype is an application of these principles in the form of a building extension that occurs in the space between buildings. It provides needed program to the host building, improves the host building fabric, redefines and renews the in-between space as area for the public. This serves to increase occupation and usability and re-establish the existing building in the context of the wider campus. 65
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Steele Building Refurbishment - Open Relic
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The proposal seeks to unify the great court by challenging the current buildings to break down the boundaries and connect to the adjacent public spaces. The original UQ plan started with the Great Court, though numerous stages of development have seen a slow congestion of smaller public spaces. These informal spaces that have been created as a result of these expansions seeks the need for the building to respond to these changes. The building re-establishes these voids to identify potential new spaces. This refurbishment represents a change in the language of pedagogy / heritage buildings that may act as a prototype for the remaining great court buildings. There is a large potential for a more unified Great Court precinct if these existing buildings address these potential public spaces where the building fabric will play a significant part. This exemplar is a sensitively thought out to have a new open language but compliments to juxtaposed existing language. 67
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Frank White Annex - Reoccupation
Greg Clarke
Frank White Annex Reoccupation provides the territory for the School of Architecture to expand in size and culture. Initial expansion appropriates the upper floor and focuses on the union of architecture and the existing resident discipline of engineering. Capitalising on the building’s position within the campus the school is able to engage with the public. These ambitions are achieved by a series of interventions into the existing building that reveal its latent qualities. Dormant conditions of voids, stereotomic materials, repetition throughout the skins, and external rooms provide clues for Reoccupation. Methods of insertion, adaption, attachment and subtraction are adopted and moulded by the Frank White Annex to reveal and activate the dormant. Edges of voids become compressed, insertions and attachments provide connections to external rooms, and the roof nest remains respectful of the buildings repetition. These informed edits as a collective provide the prototypical framework for future Reoccupation of other campus buildings. 69
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EXISTING ROOF TOP No changes need to be made to the roof
OFFICE TOWER COMPONENT Elongated floor plate width of 14 m allow the possible cross-ventilation strategy to be implemented The combination of open planning office and transparent partition wall strategies could be employed to typical office floors to achieve the naturally lit throughout the whole level.
WORKSHOP ROOF COMPONENT Roof elements, which redundant to the public space, are striped away and left with the remnant of expressive structures including, timber rafters/joists, steel beams, and concrete profiles, all of which, express nobility of existing building structure as well as providing the sense of shelter to the public realm.
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From the study of the building program in relation to the university context, It seems that the building as complicated as Mansergh Shaw is no longer suitable to accommodate the workshop function. The walls are radically stripped away to create generous circulating space suitable for public scale thoroughfare The landscape is treated in a playful manner open to public use with the continuous green courtyard terrace through the staff house road frontage. Lightweight structures, timber and steel framing are employed to the edge of existing stone retaining wall of the courtyard to create terrace spaces connecting the ground plain throughout.
Mansergh Shaw Building - Intervention
Ariya Phathanachindakit
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earth stratification that definesflow functions of to pubAs there is apattern strong public entering through the UQ Lakes bus stop from the eastern lic and occupations, the interplay of negotiation of levels and series of of pocket spaces supposedly to suburbs Brisbane, itresponse seems imperative to address this urban complication “Each year more public engagement and gathering space. than 1.5 million students rely on this Eastern Bus line to travel to the University of Queensland and it is expected to increase by 400 percent in a few years” Translink’s Mr. Emerson June 2012. It can be seen as a potential site for the future master planning scheme of the campus to become a thoroughfare/through-building link as the extension of the pedestrianised Jock road, linking across EAIT precinct, to readily circulated Cooper road. The comprehensive landscape on the ground plainEXPLODED will be AXONOMETRIC introduced to the scheme in order to consolidate permeable ground connecting the scale underused courtyards as well as injecting interactive public friendly occupation to the journey. One of the main ideas that drive this intervention is that it will be treated as groundwork for the future developments of EAIT precinct. metre 0 1 2
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Gordon Greenwood Building Refurbishment - Social Learning
Oni Ieong
A roof prototype is drawn from research into the existing campus buildings and reveals that due to the dense nature of the existing internal program, layout and facade; the redundant roof levels on buildings were tested for new teaching and learning spaces. As some of the older buildings are closed up from natural light and views, the Gordon Greenwood Building was examined as test of possibilities for the roof prototype that would cater for current and future use. It aims to draw people in and maximise the use of the whole building. By locating the teaching spaces on the top, all levels of the building can be experienced and the redeveloped social spaces can be shared. In doing this, the project aims to reveal the benefits and the potential rooftops of older buildings have around the campus. It can be a prototype for future redevelopments without the construction of new buildings, whilst older existing buildings can be refurbished in the process. 73
Q-09
UQ Staff Club Redevelopment - Circular Gathering
Jessica Spresser
‘Circular Gathering’ is a reinterpretation of James Birrell’s UQ Staff Club; transforming his notion of circles as gathering space into an extension along the amphitheatre of Staff House Road. Circular voids generate natural light and accommodate for existing trees, connecting with the landscape in a way that the Staff Club does not. Birrell’s Staff Club will be restored to its original state and converted into a bar/bistro for staff and students. The extension is intended to be a landscape feature, offering a similar sense of materiality to the Staff Club, with function inserted as a secondary component. It is host to the UQ Student Services Directorate, Australia Post and UQ Union offices. The majority of functional spaces are situated close to Staff House Road with direct access from the street, however views to the UQ lake are maintained and an agora comprised of seating and study spaces is located further down the slope, accommodating for outdoor gathering and activities. 75
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Alumni House - Mediating Contrast, Interstitial Spaces
Polina Zhalniarovich
“We behold, touch, listen and measure the world with our entire bodily experience, and experiential world becomes organised and articulated around the centre of the body…” J. Pallasma My project proposes a prototype for interstitial space, the spaces between the diverse collection of buildings that have been constructed over time on the St Lucia campus of UQ. The prototype looks at prioritising a landscape that engages with merging geometries, diverse program and architectural language; a prototype for an experience of in-between space. Contrasts between dark cave-like and open, free spaces that overlap in balanced dimmed steady transitions. Density of landscape and its activation can also be described as dark. The dark, dimmed light awakens the imagination by making visual perception ambiguous. All the senses of the body serve to ‘sharpen the feeling’. A darkened twilight (deep) experience at the first apprehension of my proposal provides a momentary opportunity to sharpen perception and deliver a clear personal understanding of experience. 77
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UQ School of Architecture - FUTURE EDIT-ion
Katie Hawgood
This project seeks to both reconcile and reflect the ever-evolving needs and aspirations of a school ‘in transition’ and the University within which it operates. Here is an opportunity to re-evaluate the tectonics of the School of Architecture, both in terms of its built and organisational structure, by establishing stronger connections, enhancing legibility and visibility, and focusing on open and articulated work and studio environments. Key to this intervention is the introduction of a notional ‘street’. The interior street is configured to draw people through the building to the expansive views of the lakes and broader context; a device which encourages interaction between the various building users. Ultimately, this project seeks to offer a solution to the difficulties of managing big studios by configuring the plan into a series of territories, which in turn fold off a central spine/street. These territories are intended to accommodate both permanent and part-time uses. 79
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UQ Sports - Informal Ciculation: Campus Arcades
Patricia Redmond
The proposed prototype is a strategy aimed to provide passages of circulation through existing and new buildings that sharpen the pedestrian flow of the outer precincts of St Lucia Campus. The prototype draws on existing patterns observed within the campus that provides a passage of connection and an inverted internal ‘address’ to the buildings. Application of the prototype within the Sports Precinct will be most successful in conjunction with the development of the new UQ Sport and Recreation Centre. A defined passage of circulation and visual connection to destinations at the ground floor will provide recreational and meeting spaces that will bring together all the UQ Sport Facilities into one defined presence. The form of the proposed new UQ Sports and Recreation Centre draws from the initial circulation arcade concept at the ground floor. The atrium is created by the large external circulation balconies that maintain the visual transparency and connectivity throughout the upper levels. 81
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School of Music - A Performing Arts Hub
Nicola Eason
The relocation of the School of Music positions the school to form a new performing arts hub for the St Lucia campus. Locating the school within the Union Complex allows a connection to the existing Schonell Theatre and provides a more visible entry to the Drama Studio. The Union Complex is the major social hub on campus, offering the ideal location to reinstate the University Music Shell that was on campus in the 1970’s and 80’s. This gives the school a public performance space, a greater presence and offers the campus a new social amenity. The School of Music building is designed to prioritise the space in-between. The school has a strong culture of informal socialising and collaboration. This design provides breakout spaces defined by pinch points to allow informal gathering without interfering with circulation. The primary musical volumes sit independent of the rest of the building and are wrapped in plywood to identify them both inside the building and out. 83
R-09
UQ Union Redevelopment - Spaces Between
Kali Marnane
The UQ Union Redevelopment explores interstitial volumes that mediate circulation voids and built form, intervening to encourage appropriation of public territory. Due to unprecedented growth and contextual change, design intentions of the original 1960s buildings (Fulton Trotter Architects) have become confused. Circulation, wayfinding and address are clarified by removing part of building 21C and the current Schonell Theatre foyer. All removed program is reinstated on site. The UQ Union complex is not defined by building objects, but rather the pedestrian and casual spaces between. Initial design intentions are reinstated to form intimate areas with extended landscape views that open and close as the viewer moves through the complex. A catalogue of prototypes, applied across campus, provide a range of experiences that recondition edge spaces and clarify movement. Subtle infills reinforce the identity of the union and transform the site into a destination and social hub that is enhanced by the movement of people through the central circulation void. 85
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Playing Field 4 Redevelopment - Inverted Grandstand
James Hollanby
The resurfacing of playing field four presented an opportunity to test a prototype that could encourage greater utilisation of the 22 ha of sports grounds that frame the campus edge to the river. Through an analysis of various grandstand typologies the project is aimed at reinventing the conventional model to give greater value to the residual spaces beneath tiered seating. The design has been approached with an emphasis on providing flexible, leasable space within the volume of the pavilion, while maintaining a visual connection to the field edge. For a more casual seating arrangement and appropriate head height, risers of the tiered seating have been exaggerated to an extent more typical of a landscaped amphitheatre. The project’s adjacency to the UQ centre has been considered by aligning the east west wing to the main foyer and providing terraces and function spaces that cater for spill out of graduation ceremonies, exams and other UQ Centre events. 87
S-09
Softball Pitch Redevelopment - The Edge Remade
Marjorie Dixon
This project seeks to create a soft landscape entry to the campus. A landscape walkway opens up currently inaccessible areas of the site, extending from the relocated City Cat stop through the reinvigorated Alumni Gardens to access the Union Complex. The landscape has been remade as a terraced terrain. Circulation over and through it is reminiscent of movement over and through a grandstand. The landscape houses semi-subterranean spaces including the UQ Health Clinic, public amenities, cafÊ and public sports facilities, which flow out from the access spine and into the landscape. The Edge_Remade operates within the height datum proscribed by James Maccormick’s building 33. The language of the tectonics, materiality and detailing of the project are also drawn from this building which has been reinstated to its former glory as the SPRA Bar. The Edge_Remade creates a soft approach to the University, which is entirely open to public use. 89
S-09
Campus River Entry Upgrade - Redefining The Campus Edge
Natasha Chee
The radial development of the St Lucia campus around The Great Court has always considered the river edges to be the ‘back end’ for vehicles and services. The completion of the Eleanor Schonell Bridge in 2006 challenged this organizational logic, however also created issues of accessibility and an undefined arrival into the campus. Located between the Student Union Complex and the UQ Lakes Bus Stop, this project addresses the site’s 7m incline and the 20,000 daily trips during the semester through a series of critical interventions: (1) Extend the lake and natural landscape, (2) Raise the UQ Lakes Bus Stop to align with the Schonell Bridge, (3) Propose a 2-level Pedestrian Bridge over the lake that incorporates learning spaces, (4) Edit the existing Student Union built fabric, (5) Incorporate mixed-use programs, including gatehouse programs of an Art Gallery and Student Learning Centre. Of significance, this project challenges the existing notions of the river periphery and serves as a case study to redefining other campus river entrances. 91
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Memorial Pavilion and Garden
Sunny Chen
The project brief asks for a Memorial Pavilion and Garden to be sited by the UQ Lakes. As it exists, the site is a peaceful spot most commonly used for lunching in the sun or napping under a tree. The project sought to respect this existing site usage through careful landscape integration. The proposed building’s main purpose is to commemorate those who have donated their bodies to UQ’s School of Medicine, and also to recognise generous monetary donations. Additionally, the Memorial Pavilion seeks to be a flexible venue for an array of events, such as musical performances, lectures, or wedding ceremonies. The Lakeside site possesses semi-private qualities such as abundance of vegetation, and its hillocky topography. Both these qualities afford the site’s occupants a sense of separation and refuge from the bustle of the rest of the campus. The new building seeks to enhance these desirable qualities to ensure the site remains an accessible place of reflection, quietude and escape. 93
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UQ Lakes Commuter Plaza - Active Transport and Amenities Hub
Scott Moore
The ‘UQ Lakes Commuter Plaza’ provides a facilities hub for commuters and visitors to the University of Queensland St Lucia campus. The hub is located on the east of the campus adjacent to the UQ Lakes Busway station and bikeway route creating amenities for commuters and visitors to the campus and bikeway infrastructure for the city. The hub provides storage for approximately 400 bicycles with 56 located in a secure area along with 18 showers and 300 lockers. Drying areas for cycling clothes, fresh towel service and a bicycle workshop are also provided. A café providing food and beverages to commuters provides a space to interact with fellow passengers or simply an area to relax while waiting for that unpredictable bus. The building form comprises of a linear building mass intertwined around significant Jacarandas and Moreton Bay Figs. This creates a series of courtyard spaces under tree canopies, supplemented by a larger solid canopy structure tying the whole hub together. 95
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Blair Pavilion - Disentangled Mechanism
Te s s M a r t i n
The Blair Pavilion is a 105 year old colonial pavilion at the Ipswich Campus, previously the foundation building for the Ipswich Lunatic Asylum. The design proposition involves relocation of an existing Psychology and Mental Health Clinic and formation of a postgraduate research centre within the Blair Pavilion in order to activate this currently underutilized part of the campus. There is a threetiered prototypical approach; re-use of the heritage type, knowledge from the existing to inform new building types and exploration of master planning principles of the Ha-Ha wall that exist on the site. The central space will be reconfigured internally to open this part of the building to new courtyards to the north and south of the space. The main ventilation tower is exposed internally by removing the ceiling and upper floor to create a double height volume, shaping and exaggerating the formal entrance to the building and allowing a view of the system giving a new appreciation of this long forgotten building. 99
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Health Sciences Building
Sasha Hakimian
The new Health science building acts as a gateway to the campus, providing the first point of contact for visitors to the university, as well as providing general and specialised teaching spaces. This dual role justifies the bus stop within its embrace, strengthening the central court space. The site is positioned at the threshold between the university campus and the surrounding landscape. The ‘soft’ transition between inside and out promotes an active ground plane, with the ground level reading as an internal public street. The theme of transparency is also expressed through the exposure of structural elements, and the visual connection through the atrium spaces. This idea of transparency is reflective of the teachings of the study of the internal anatomy of the human body in which this building facilitates for. The porosity of the brick façades and walls playfully engage with the external activity, while at the same time responding to the material qualities of the heritage buildings. 101
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Global Medical School - Virtual portal annexe
I-Wen Kuo
The prototype is a virtual portal, with the aim to accommodate for the diaspora of the University of Queensland’s School of Medicine (UQSoM). It seeks to create a network of ‘homes’ for the large, complex and geographically dispersed organisation. The design critically assesses the current university business model and develops a new model for operation. It is also an adjacent annexe designed to recuperate existing campus buildings for contemporary uses. The virtual portal combines virtual and physical architecture to enhance collaboration in the school’s multidisciplinary and multi-site operations. It is experienced through a sequence of spaces designed to evoke experiences and provide total immersion. The virtual portal is a response to how technology has transformed learning and working in an increasingly globalised world. The broader implications are therefore particularly relevant in bringing together individuals into one physical location to collaborate and communicate abroad through virtual means. 105
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Herston Imaging Facility - Exposing Territory
James Baker
The Herston Imaging Facility is composed within the existing void spce between three research buildings owned by the University of Queensland within the grounds of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital. The project seeks to unify the ground plane between all three buildings and provide new scanning facilities to level four of the existing UQCCR building. This was imagined to provide functional amenity to the site. However, the existing site condition nullified student gathering activity and a sense of ‘place” for the student community to casually inhabit and take ownership. This caused the need to intervene, where several ‘outdoor rooms’ have been provided to associate students with a sense of ‘campus’. The cafeteria ‘owns’ the crest of the hill and advertises the informal nature of the site and take advantage of the northern aspect providing passive and natural conditions. 107
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JK Murray Library Extension - Courtyards_Outdoor Learning
Nordiana Mohammad
Being strategically located adjacent to the Central Walkway, the J K Murray Library has a lot of potential to create strong public spaces as part of the campus urban planning. The intervention mainly focused on the quality of the project to create a series of smaller habitable courtyards connected to the Central Walkway, with the intention to induce more distributed habitable outdoor spaces that the campus are lack of. The Property and Facility of The University of Queensland has conceived to substantially extending the current library building to provide teaching and learning facilities. The extension to the library becomes part of the courtyard series which addresses not only the library users but also other students around the campus. These courtyard incorporated learning spaces are designed to be interactive and technology friendly, parallel to the emergence of information technology. The programs utilise outdoor environment to improve the quality of library spaces as well as to create a more relaxing educational setting. 111
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The Central Walkway is a linear pedestrian strip running through the heart of the campus. Currently the walkway is a large, open inactive space acting as a void strip through the campus. Buildings occupying the walkway are currently setback a substantial distance, thus creating an inactive edge throughout the walkway. Due to the setback of these buildings, it creates underutilised void spaces and an opportunity for a prototype intervention between the threshold of the building and the walkway. Through analysing and cataloguing the characteristics of these spaces, such as the building setback from the walkway and edge conditions it forms the research for the small-scaled prototype to inhabit these areas. A different site characteristic will mean a different architectural prototype of smaller scaled space. The series of void space typologies on the campus scale aims to habit the space between the building and walkway edge, while each typology on the micro scale will respond to the different site characteristics. 113
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Lawes Campus Club - Verandah Courtyard Living
Henry Coates
Influenced by the growing social needs of UQ’s remote agricultural university, the project involves the consolidation of a number of isolated social pockets dispersed throughout the campus, including the Dining Hall, the Walkway Café, the Lawes Campus Club and the Staff Campus Club into a new social core. The spaces are orientated around courtyard living and serve to prioritise outdoor verandah space synonymous with the traditional Gatton culture. “The verandah was their classroom.” The building is based around a prototype of an inverted Queensland pub and draws spatial and construction methodologies from the traditional vernacular farming stations seen on campus. It is intended that the development of a new social heart will respond to the campus’ changing needs and serve to reinvigorate life on campus particularly with the respect to the central walkway and in conjunction with the UQ Gatton Campus Site Development Plan 2012. 115
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South Ridge Precinct Expansion - Street Theory
Ami Nakayama
The project finds itself between the isolated houses of the South Ridge Precinct, a proud built and cultural heritage of the Gatton Campus. On an anthropological level, Street Theory aims to establish connections within the South Ridge Precinct, and further onto the Halls of Residence. This is where the project offers a prototypical approach to installing the physical framework to cultivate interaction, community and neighbourhood within the campus. This prototypical approach is grounded on the installment of a street into the existing Precinct. External spaces are prioritised where the boundaries between interior and exterior as well as public and private are dissolved. The central spine becomes the focal point of the neighbourhood, framed by a diverse catalogue of housing types. The linear arrangement of these housing types allow the prototype to be repeated and extended upon for future housing requirements of the University of Queensland, whilst the variety of housing types provides foresight for growth to occur either via infill or addition construction. 117
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Biomass Energy Facility - Programmatic Hybridity
Pyungwon Lee
Under the representational model, architecture finds itself in contest with discursive and often ephemeral media such as painting and performance art, rather than in coherence with material practices such as engineering, planning and infrastructure. The prototype explored in this project is Programmatic Hybridity, which involves the juxtaposition of different programme to create new spaces and efficiencies that otherwise would not have existed. The prototype allows architecture to come into contact with the complexity of the real and the material; to once more deal directly with the fluxes and infrastructural necessities of population. The project is located on the Gatton Campus, where it is apparent that academic and practical learning are divorced. This project attempts to hybridise an existing stable facility with bio-waste infrastructure and an educational facility to demonstrate the re-use of waste to produce energy and compost, as well as to reintegrate theoretical and practical learning on the campus. 119
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Arid Zone Research Station - Mediating Spine
Liam Innes
The existing trainee camp on the Queensland-Northern Territory border is essentially a collection of pre-fabricated dongas sitting in the red dust, like so many other outposts across remote Australia. The placement of such alien objects, with their temporary and introverted qualities, in such a ubiquitous landscape, raises questions of appropriateness, belonging and connection. The proposition seeks to provide a prototypical interface between the transient donga, and the environmental and social context of the isolated camp. A permanent spine constructed of local limestone, earth and spinifex serves as a connecting device that celebrates the very landscape that has lured the researchers to the far-flung location. Dongas are fitted-out as dust-fee labs off-site, trucked to the remote site, and anchored to the spine. The number and type of labs change over time, as different research programs come and go, without compromising the station’s integration with its demanding site. 123
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Heron Island Research Station - Island Gatehouse
Thomas Hartigan
Heron Island Research Station has grown and prospered in relative isolation from the traditional notions of campus generally associated with the University of Queensland. This disconnect from mainland Australia due to its isolation, offers an architectural opportunity to explore notions of sequence and arrival in a remote island environment. As a prototype, this proposition consolidates a collection of scattered building uses into a coherent sequence of ‘events’, that when experiences collectively, informs those arriving of their presence within the Heron Island Research Station. The linear arrangement of programme narrates the traditional coastal journey from beach to the bedroom, showcasing and celebrating the ‘mundane’ activities associated with day-to-day life on a marine research station. The building’s design incorporates a combination of pre-fab portal frames and raised timber decking, enabling remote construction, while also echoing the tectonic poetry of the Island’s jetty. 125
R-07
Goondiwindi Training College - Rural College
Steven Hodgson
The prototype developed is aimed at invigorating the lifestyle of external campuses by responding to local culture and requirements. Satellite campuses often suffer from an identity crisis as they are too removed from the main institution to attract faculty and too devoted to a singular purpose to benefit the community. The potential exists to establish campuses that are closely connected to the local community’s needs and focused towards the unique research and education opportunities of that region. The focus of the Centre is a multipurpose hall with a flexible floor plan aligned with existing circulation corridors and sheltered by established trees. The plan has multiple entry options and provides enough space to operate as a restaurant, seminar and exhibition room or a performance hall. Through the redevelopment of this site the university can reinvest in Goondiwindi by providing a space that benefits the overall community and potentially individual users who may be persuaded to consider UQ as a potential destination. 127
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Moreton Bay Research Station - Liberating the Coastline.
Benjamin Sheehan
MBRS in Dunwich, Stradbroke Island provides facilities for education and research. The growing popularity of the site by educational groups, lack of demarcation between program and a desire by researchers for upgraded facilities, indicates expansion is needed. Dunwich is surrounded by a ring of public land that culminates in the foreshores of the bay. Currently a wharf used by the mining operations on the Island interrupts the continuity of the public land. With the winding down of the mine, the University of Queensland is likely to be offered this industrial land. MBRS will shift its research facilities to this new site, allowing educational program to use the entire original site. The public nature of the University’s facilities will allow the wharf to feature in public life as a place to swim, fish and watch the sun set. The research station will be constructed on deep footings that anchor it to the bedrock of the headland allowing the building to remain perched above the bay as over time the natural equilibrium of the foreshore returns and the wharf erodes away. 129
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Arid Zone Research Station 123 Alumni House 77 Art Museum 41 Avalon Theatre 27,29 119 Biomass Energy Facility Blair Pavilion 99 Campus River Edge Upgrade 91 Central Walkway Redevelopment 113 Chamberlain Building 65 69 Frank White Annex Frank White Building 63 Global Medical School 105 Goondiwindi Training College 127 Gordon Greenwood Building Refurbishment 73 Hartly Teakle 37 Hawken Village 35 101 Health Sciences Building Heron Island Research Station 125 Herston Imaging Facility 107 JD Story Building 39 JK Murray Library Extension 111 Lawes Campus Club 115 MacGregor Building 51 Mansergh Shaw Building 71 43 Mansfield Place Redevelopment Memorial Pavilion and Garden 93 Molecular Biosciences Building 55 Moreton Bay Research Station 129 New Entry to the University of Queensland 49 New Plant Growth Lab 33 Parnell Building 61 87 Playing Field 4 Redevelopment Post-graduate Student Accommodation 31 Redevelopment of Playing Field 5b 57 River Edge 47 School of Architecture 79 School of Chemistry 53 83 School of Music Skerman Building 45 59 Social Sciences Library Softball Pitch Redevelopment 89 South Ridge Precinct Expansion 117 Staff Club Redevelopment 75 Steele Building Refurbishment 67 UQ Lakes Commuter Plaza 95 UQ Sports 81 UQ Union Redevelopment 85
James Baker 107 Lizzie Bennet 59 Natasha Chee 91 Sunny Chen 93 Greg Clarke 69 Henry Coates 115 33 Michael Crosby Marjorie Dixon 89 Nicola Eason 83 51 Xiao Feng Leah Gallagher 47 Sasha Hakimian 101 Thomas Hartigan 125 Katie Hawgood 79 Steven Hodgson 127 James Hollanby 87 Garth Hsu 63 Oni Ieong 73 Liam Innes 123 I-Wen Kuo 105 Frankie Lau 53 Pyungwon Lee 119 Tzu-Yuan (Rex) Lin 55 David Liu 45 Kali Marnane 85 Tess Martin 99 41 Rachael McCall Laura McConaghy 37 Nordiana Mohammad 111 Katy Moir 27 Scott Moore 95 Ami Nakayama 117 Yohei Omura 31 29 Jane Overington Ariya Phathanachindakit 71 Calum Prasser 43 81 Patricia Redmond Steph Ring 57 61 Darcy James Shapcott Benjamin Sheehan 129 Jessica Spresser 75 Bach Peter Tran 67 Timothy Turner 65 Lynn Wang 35 Shane Willmett 49 Chuan Xiao 39 Daniel Yu (D.Y) 113 Polina Zhalniarovich 77