SYNERGY innovation
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Mudera Vaishnavi Bopiah University Of New South Wales 2017 Master Of Architecture Project
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POST ARCADIA under the guidance of Cathy Kubany & Theo Krallis
For the love of science ______
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This project has been researched and developed over a period of 9 months. This is a compilation of design processes resulting in “SYNERGY�
INFLUENCE
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bĂŠton brut raw concrete; a smooth architectural surface made out of concrete. The concrete is left unfinished or roughly-finished after casting and it remains exposed visually.
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the following inspirations have moulded the final design ______
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movement
BRUTA
A utopian ideal: Peter Chadwick’s Thamesmead poster series. Image Courtesy of Creative Review
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movement
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A homage to London Brutalism : National Theatre by Thomas Danthony. Image Courtesy of Black Dragon Press
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readings
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readings
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readings
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readings
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art
Circulation spine : Augustine Kofie Image Courtesy of www.keepdrafting.com
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sculpture
Monument : Brutalist sculpture 2
Image Courtesy of www.davidumemoto.com
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movies
Unbuilt design for the Neanderthal Museum, PiloĂąa, Spain Estudio Barozzi Veiga, 2010
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movies
Office of Niander Wallace, Blade Runner 2049
Cinematographer Roger Deakins said “We looked at a lot of references of the way architects use light in modern buildings, and especially the way light falls on some of these big concrete structures. We thought about an artificial world in which lighting moves like sunlight. We wanted the main space to be a big platform in the middle of a pond (based on an architectural design we’d seen). And the idea was to play with water with caustic patterns to evoke different emotions.”
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texture
Tama Art University, Japan - TOYO ITO
Jewish Museum, Berlin - Daniel Libeskind
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finesse
Brion Cemetery, Italy - Carlo Scarpa
Brion Cemetery, Italy - Carlo Scarpa
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architecture
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architecture
Wall House 2 is admired for it’s fusion of Surrealist sculpture, Cubist paintings and architecture, which reflect John Hejduk’s identity as an artist, poet, educator and architect. He learned to focus on the more flat dimensions of architectural form as well as the focus on pure volumes. Organized around a central axis of horizontal and vertical plane, a three-dimensionality allows for experiencing the spaces. Accompanying these, a two-dimensional plane disconnects but at the same time groups the functional spaces which appear separate from one another.
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HYPOTHESIS
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is a statutory body of the Australian government, formed in 1987 to replace the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. Its head office and main facilities are in southern outskirts of Sydney at Lucas Heights, in the Sutherland Shire. The project aims to make ANSTO a landmark for scientific studies and research in New South Wales, with the expanision of its current campus to create an innovation campus fostering living and learning.
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A synergistic campus is one in which academics, interaction and innovation exist and function, simultaneously and symbiotically. Bringing in the notion of science, the subject of the body and translating it into form and function that can be experienced is what this campus is about, where –
“science is the icing and architecture is the fundamental base”. The campus will foster a sense of curiosity, amusement and learning, looping the journey through various points on site. This project is an exploration for the interrelation between science and architecture – of how science translates spatially to embody synergy on site.
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interaction
SYNERGY
innovation
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How can the creation of an innovative campus allow the public to interactively engage with the process of scientific research?
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THEMATICS
ANSTO’s Future vision statements
The future development of ANSTO is tightly linked to their community through the development of an Innovation Precinct which will be home to ANSTO’s Graduate Institute, the Innovation Incubator and a technology park. In this rapidly changing world, the challenge of research infrastructure costs, solving technological and manufacturing problems will require highly skilled trans-disciplinary teams which are not readily available to the start-up and small medium enterprise (SME) community who, in Australia make up most of this industry sector.
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The proposed Innovation Precinct will connect much of Australia’s landmark and national research infrastructure with Australia’s best and brightest graduates, scientific partners, and industry creating an innovation ecosystem that will: * Accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing in Australia. * Support innovation through leveraging Australia’s science and technology capabilities. * Establish a global nuclear science and technology centre to train and develop the scientists, engineers and nuclear research technologists of tomorrow. * To achieve this vision ANSTO must continue to focus on innovation and collaboration which are underlying themes within ANSTO’s mission.
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Sticky Campus knowledge is/as fun
Humans are emotional beings. In creating the best student experience, social, lifestyle and academic aspects are all of equal importance. To attract and retain the best students, a campus environment needs to deliver both the social as well as the academic ambitions of the students.
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Blended and group learning extends beyond the classroom. Facilitated by laptops and access to online resources, much of today’s learning occurs outside the traditional teaching environment. The opportunity lies in the ability to create a more vibrant campus, greater social interaction and an improved student experience. The challenge lies in creating spaces which encourage this to occur on rather than off campus. Creating the ‘sticky’ campus, a place where students choose to be to meet their friends and do their work. Open, approachable and inviting learning environments have become crucial to new learning styles. Built structures will meet open spaces. Students can migrate freely across the entire site, moving through the campus without barriers.
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Sharing Design
role of the built environment
Does good design contribute to better, faster research outcomes? Campuses are innovation powerhouses and they play an important role in the cultivation and exchange of ideas and new knowledge. Connectivity, agglomeration and new relationships with business and industry are becoming key drivers for universities. Campuses are adapting formal spaces that support learning and research to be supplemented with internal and external spaces that support socialisation, interaction, collaboration and innovation. These are spaces that encourage partners to come onto campus and interact with researchers and future graduates. Such spaces are key to enabling activities that foster discovery, translation and commercialisation. Key drivers for the way designers are approaching research environments include the demonstrated advantages of:
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*Co-locating different research functions in a space that promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration The Ecosciences Precinct brings together 1,000 scientists from four state agencies and six CSIRO divisions into a single, collaborative research environment. The project creates a new facility ‘without walls’, encouraging knowledge exchange and discovery through use of shared spaces and resources. Scientists working in the Precinct are clustered in groups, based on the nature of the science they’re doing, regardless of their agency – representing a significant shift and bringing the scientists together in an entirely new way. The resulting design uses an internal multi-level street which optimises vertical and horizontal connections via atria, lifts and open staircases to link its three wings. The central street draws staff out of their quiet work zones into a lively hub comprising common areas and meeting rooms.
*Integrating education and research for cross-disciplinary collaboration Universities are placing increasing importance on the integration of research and education facilities. This in turn is changing the way designers approach the design of research institutes. “The recent shift has been to place more value on the integration with research. This idea of research-led education or translational research is about how fast you can translate pure research into applied research, then into community applications and in turn into curriculum. The challenge then for designers is not simply to design a building that gives students a close-up research experience – by allowing them to see up through an atrium to laboratories above – but by allowing them to work within laboratory spaces. This is a model that is being realised within the Advanced Engineering Building - which is a design collaboration comprising HASSELL and Richard Kirk Architect - where the building has been designed so that by the time students have reached their senior years, they have progressed up through the building to eventually work side-by-side with the researchers in laboratories.
*Designing buildings as live research tools The University of Queensland’s ambitious Global Change Institute building will be a live research tool for sustainable subtropical building systems when it is completed in July 2013. “For example, we will use it to test assumptions and collect new data on how to design comfortable, naturally ventilated buildings in sub-tropical environments.” The building aims to be in natural ventilation mode for 88% of the year and consume only 40% of the energy of the Green Building Council of Australia benchmark education project. “How that works and the day-to-day comfort of people in the building will be the subject of ongoing post-occupancy research,” explains Mark.
Source : HASSELL
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Sharing Societies innovation ecosystems
“I believe the ultimate goal of science is to serve society, and an important way to do this is via direct communication with the public.” — Walt Meier, Research Associate at NASA’s Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory.
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the workshop culture Non-profit foundations aim to stimulate people’s interest in science and technology and to increase their awareness of methods and results within science and technology. The target audience is the entire population, with a special focus on children and young people. Based on this mission, they transform the way in which our visitors experience and appreciate the significance of natural science and technology in everyday life. Knowledge and curiosity come alive with a hands-on approach. Therefore, everything is designed to be touched at science centres, so that play and learning always go hand in hand. This way, complex issues take on a particular relevance, and visitors go home slightly wiser about themselves and the world we live in. Science & discovery centres connect the public with science and allow people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to explore scientific ideas. Over the last two centuries the number and variety of science & discovery centres has seen significant growth. This has led to more opportunities for exposure to science experiences for all ages. Breaking the boundaries of indoor exhibits and demonstrations gives much more allowance on size and scope to any given display. Scientist satisfaction is achieved with how science is portrayed at science & discovery centres. Efforts should be made by the various centres and their associations to make the data and studies more widely available to researchers.
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OPEN SCIENCE Open science is the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society, amateur or professional. It encompasses practices such as publishing open research, campaigning for open access, encouraging scientists to practice open notebook science, and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge. The European-funded project Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research (FOSTER) has developed an open science taxonomy as an attempt to map the open science field.
SHARING SCIENCE Sharing Science is a network by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) across many departments, including education, public affairs, strategic communications, and public information. The program encompasses all of the resources, workshops, hands-on support, and opportunities AGU provides to help scientists effectively communicate with broader audiences—including journalists, educators and students, policy makers, and the public—about Earth and space science and its importance.
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THE TINKERING STUDIO The Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California is an immersive, active, creative studio is a place where museum visitors can slow down, become deeply engaged in an investigation of scientific phenomena, and make something. It invites people to make something and, through the process of making, become deeply engaged in curiosity-driven learning. Staff from the Tinkering Studio have brought learning opportunities to India, Saudi Arabia, and other countries.
ExNET ExNET is a hybrid exhibit and teaching program. It offers theme-based exhibit collections, matches the professional development needs of each institution, conducts workshops on topics that are interesting to our partners, and creates opportunities for partners to share ideas and learn from each other. ExNET partners come from museums worldwide, and exchange exhibits, staff, and expertise.
INSTITUTE OF INQUIRY The Institute for Inquiry is a professional development program that addresses the theory and practice of inquiry-based science education as an approach to coming to a deeper understanding of scientific phenomena and practices. Its workshops and seminars are for lead teachers, professional developers, administrators, national education reform leaders, out-of-school educators, and the university community.
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PRECEDENTS
Connection : Concept model of Bolderwood Innovation Campus
By James Vongprachanh, Kelvin Chen, Stephanie Wong & Vaishnavi Bopiah, April 2017.
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the following precedent studies are based on architectural elements and principles ______
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CONNECTION Boldrewood Innovation Campus
Location : Southampton, United Kingdom Architects : Grimshaw
The Boldrewood Innovation campus is an extension of an old campus site. The new building site effectively responds to the old campus site combining the two into a united ensemble. The new building compound consists of three departements: Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, research facilities supporting the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment with Lloyd’s Register’s Global Technology Centre. The three departemts are effectively connected with each other with Maritime Institute underground connecting with the other two buildings. One distinguishing feature of this site’s master plan is it’s approach to dealing with the relationship between the old buildings and the new buildings. Generally, it can be classified into two catagories: the connecting approach and the dividing appoach.
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Source : Archdaily
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FORM The California Academy Of Sciences
Location : San Francisco Architects : Renzo Piano Building Workshop
This is one of the few institutes of natural sciences in which public experience and scientific research occur at the same location. All the functions are laid out around a central courtyard, which acts as entrance lobby and pivotal centre to the collections. Combining exhibition space, education, conservation and research beneath one roof, the Academy also comprises natural history museum, aquarium and planetarium. The varied shapes of these different elements are expressed in the building’s roofline, which follows the form of its components.
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Source : Archdaily
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FUNCTION The Experimentarium
Location : Hellerup, Denmark Architects : CEBRA
Curiosity is the core element that the Experimetarium is made of which lights a spark in children and young people, inspiring them to explore and understand our wonderful world. Now, this curiosity gets a new, spectacular, and flexible framework with a doubled exhibition area, and the roof terrace to strengthen the Experimentarium as an all-year attraction. The building’s different functions are made visible to the city in the form of stacked boxes, which are offset from the base and open themselves towards their surroundings with large expanses of glass, creating a visual connection to the scientific universe inside.
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1 Complex building 2 Chuanxi club 3 Staff canteen 4 Staff dormitory
Source : Archdaily
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PLANNING Chengdu Aerospace Superalloy Technology Campus
Location : Sichuan, China Architects : Tanghua Architect & Associates
The design focuses on how to meet the restricted sloping and elevation requirement inside the project. The site remains the forestry texture which is unique to Chengdu Plain. When planning the programs and phasing of the site s with different topographic manipulation strategies based on their various functions: For the office, exhibition and reception area, the original topography is maintained, using the existing landscape elements to design these areas. The existing fish pond becomes the central water feature after the design. The height of the vegetation is controlled to not block the view and maintain efficiency of transportation.
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Source : Archdaily
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LANDSCAPE Parc De La Vilette
Location : Paris, France Architects : Bernard Tschumi
Parc de la Villette is a place of culture where natural and artificial are forced together into a state of constant reconfiguration and discovery. A system of dispersed “points”—the red enameled steel follies that support different cultural and leisure activities. Each of the deconstructivist follies are centers for informal program. The points are superimposed on a system of “lines” that emphasizes movement through the park. Tschumi’s lines are essentially the main demarcated movement paths across the park. Unlike the follies, the paths do not follow any organizational structure; rather they intersect and lead to various points of interest within the park and the surrounding urban area. Of the 135 acres, 85 acres are dedicated to the green space, which are categorized as “surfaces”. The large open green spaces give Parisians space to interact, play, relax, and gather. The open space is typically used for large gatherings and even in the summer it becomes a large open air cinema.
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SITE ANALYSIS
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introduction The Lucas Heights ANSTO campus is located in a bushland within 18 kilometres from the suburb of Sutherland where a transport hub links directly to the Sydney CBD, Sydney Airport and the south coast as far as Kiama. There are approximately 70 hectares of developed land on the southern side of New Illawarra Road, featuring more than 80 science buildings including the OPAL reactor. There is potential for an additional 20ha of green field site available in this area. On the northern side of New Illawarra road there is a combination of bushland, partially disturbed land and previously developed land amongst rare plant systems and pristine waterways. The bushland perimeter surrounding ANSTO is approximately 300 hectares of ridges and valleys, and about 130 hectares currently used as a municipal land fill facility that will operate for another 25 years. On the southern side of New Illawarra Road there will also be the opportunities of for new development and reuse of some existing buildings. ANSTO will endeavour to secure anchor tenants to commence the development and will continue to work with government authorities to maintain adequate road and public transport to and from the site. The proposed Innovation Precinct is in line with the Greater Sydney Commission vision for the Sydney region.
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proposal The proposed Innovation Precinct must be designed to reflect the diversity of 21st Century Australia, protect and support local indigenous culture and celebrate the natural Australian bushland surrounds. The Precinct will enhance the current world class research facility, and provide a fertile environment for innovation to blossom. The available land which includes some of the developed land will be divided into 4 main zones : education, village, incubator and industrial or Tech Park. The education zone will most likely occupy parts of the village area in its initial phase until the main campus is complete on the northern side of New Illawarra Road. The education zone will include student work areas, lecture theatre and other educational facilities. The main ANSTO site will provide the experiential component of the learning process. An anchor tenant for the northern side of New Illawarra Road will be required to ensure the economic viability of the education zone development. It is envisaged the anchor tenant might be a large government organisation with a science focus. It is believed that the size and type of such a tenant facility will complement the new education zone activities. The village zone will play an important support role to the education zone and will include cafÊ, exhibition hall/auditorium that can double as a lecture theatre or event venue, motel, child care, car parking, supporting retail and offering an inviting open area and meeting place. ANSTO’s existing library will move to this area, expand and become the communications hub for the village zone. The ANSTO spatial plan features the village zone as the public interface point for ANSTO. The village will link the general public, the education zone and the innovation incubator to the ANSTO main campus and the OPAL reactor. ANSTO’s Shared Services Group will be located adjacent to the village close to the innovation incubator and may be in a position to offer assistance to fledgling businesses. An industrial zone will be located along Little Forest Road and some to the northern areas along New Illawarra Road. This land is largely greenfield with no services available at present.
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Site Analysis : Climate
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Site Analysis : Climate
The site where ANSTO currently resides is surrounded with ample vegetations which helps to lower the area temperature. It’s humid subtropical climate is characterised by hot, usually humid summers and mild to cool winters. This region occasionally suffer from damaging storm winds and bush fires resulting from the weather conditions. Existing site wise, ANSTO has a good proportion of building to surface area which shows no significant overshadowing that occurs during the summer. However building located Southwest of ANSTO campus are subjected to overshadowing during winter periods. Overall the site region is mostly stable, geologically and climate wise.
Summer Solstice
Ample space given between buildings show that no significant overshadowing occurs during the summer solstice.
Winter Solstice
Buildings located southwest are subjected to overshadowing during winter periods.
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Site Analysis : Topography
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Site Analysis : Topography
Contours
The site is located on a gentle slope which then drops down to the valleys of Bardens creek towards the North and Woronora river to the south and south west with advantageous views and aboriginal walking trails in the historic part of the site.
The site can be divided into 4 main zones: The reactor zones in the South-West which houses the OPAL reactor is the most important part of the whole site. In the South and the East, exist the Southern Research Zone and the Eastern Research Zone which provide support for the main reactor core. There are 2 more sub-zone that lie within the Eastern part of the 2 research zones and are tasked with storage and support for the research. The Public zone lie in the northern part and is quite disconnected to the other zones due to protective fences and security measures. The current building heights on site is restrained. Most of the buildings are under 3 storeys and only few other buildings can reach more than 5 storeys. The material used in ANSTO follows from lighter material such as timber and light steel frame to heavy solid concrete. The colour palette varies from white or light grey to natural wood then to solid dark grey.
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Vegetation
The site is located amongst Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest and Sydney Hinterland Sandstone Forest. The Riparian forest is located in Bardens Creek and the site is out of the Riparian buffer zone. Native plants are important and help support local biodiversity. Their resistance to fire and the unique ability of certain species to grow quicker after a fire makes them suitable near Boundary walls. Native and exotic deciduous trees can be used in central parts of the site to provide adequate shading to public spaces. Aquatic plants can be used near rain water collection ponds which help in preventing excess rainwater drainage and filtering the water.
Water Sensitive Urban Design
Woronora River
The four main types of rain water drainage systems include a storm water retention pond, infiltration trenches around the main reactor, a field storm water retention area and wet swales on several parts of the site.
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Site Analysis : Circulation
Service corridor
Secondary access
Primary access + Parking
Security fence
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Site Analysis : Circulation
Entrance
The main entrance to the campus is through the New Illawarra road.The route of staff and visitors to the security zone currently overlaps with each other. When the volume of visiting is not large, this security issue can be solved by arranging different entering time of staffs and visitors. However, if the campus intends to engage more with the public, this security issue may enlarge and need other methods to solve it.
Security fencing
The fencing runs along the site periphery and internally through the reactor zone. The main issue here is to provide the public with friendly circulation even with the presence of high security fencing demarcating the area.
Primary and secondary paths
The distinction of the vehicular road system is unclear. The main road and secondary roads are not clearly distinguished. The site is significantly dominated by vehicular roads thus there is a lack of enough walking paths for pedestrians and bicycles.
Car Parking
The car parking currently is not well organized, presenting a disordered characteristic. Although arranging car parking spaces next to the building can provide convenience for the users, this organization will contribute to a vehicle dominated environment, which not only takes up public spaces, but also can negatively affect the environment.
Service corridors
The service corridors are currently beneath existing roads within the site and are well connected to the buildings. The existing service corridors will not be an issue for future development as they do not interfere with the new sites.
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CONCEPT
SIX MOVES OF SITE INTERVENTION Based on ANSTO’s vision + Research analytics
SIX MOVES OF SITE INTERVENTION Excluding (demolishing) few build
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TRANSLATE INVOLVE INTERACT
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Key moves
MOVE 1 Accentuating “the hub� or the public zone involving research and interaction along with the private research zone with the OPAL reactor by connecting them with functional pathways.
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Key moves
MOVE 2
Making use of the natural arcs which occur at the pockets of the site with views into valleys, binding the new site interventions with nature, building into nature with a friendly environment of biophilia.
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Key moves
MOVE 3 Creating a grid on site to govern pathways and spines for easy circulation and zoning. Most of the site will be pedestrian friendly, some with shared routes for electric cars.
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Key moves
MOVE 4 Balancing the built environment and the landscape throughout the site, with adequate breather spaces and densifying only certain pockets on site.
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Co-existance : Qualities + Strategies
Unify the campus & Focus outward Organize the campus by creating a strong center, circulation spines and architectural icons.
The architectural diversity of the campus reflects the rich history of ANSTO’s site and the university circle as a thriving cultural district. Establishing a strong physical and functional center within the campus acts as an organising element to unify the campus with an integration of landscape. The icons should serve as a magnet for students walking from all parts of the campus, and should project the image of the campus beyond its physical boundaries. Comprised of physical elements that can be seen from all parts of the campus, the campus should act as a point of reference for all who work, live or visit the campus.
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Co-existance : Qualities + Strategies
Foster living, learning & discovery Integrate social and academic/ research spaces and activities in support of the academic mission.
The physical campus should seamlessly connect residential life and academics to facilitate learning and discovery. All the zones should integrate with the surrounding communities through streetscapes and visual sightlines. Interdisciplinary space should allow flexibility to accomodate multiple, changing uses and group sizes with increased levels of technology.
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Edit phase Proposed demolition Easing of security fence
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Planning
DENSIFICATION : amalgamating functions to create a hybrid
ACTIVATION : collaborative circulation spine
CONNECTION : bridging the two sites ; crypt _ 96
Planning
BREATHERS : building with nature
CIRCULATION : vehicular access ; pedestrian friendly
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Masterplan
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GRADUATE INSTITUTE flexbile classrooms audiotorium library in-house cafetreia private study spaces
DISCOVERY CENTRE (bridge) ANSTO information centre interactive learning centre
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INCUBATORS
flexbile work spaces mini audiotorium library meeting rooms private study spaces
LABORATORIES feeder labs for CSIRO precinct storage
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Experimentarium Research Labs Innovation Incubators Physics park
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Area of Focus
The Reactor Zone The site is located in the reactor zone sandwiched between the OPAL recator (private zone) and the old reactor zone. The site area is approximately 30,000 sq.m which contours into the valley allowing for views into the surrounding bushland of ANSTO.
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DEVELOPMENT
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Memory
cooling tower
generators + condensors
containment building
EXPERIMENTARIUM
RESEARCH LABS
INCUBATORS
The concept of ‘SYNERGY’ Based on the concept of the working of a Nuclear powerplant, the complex is divided into three main functional zones with a life cycle within amongst them. Incubators - where the idea is born Research labs - where the idea is tested and improved Experimentarium - where the product of the idea is showcased and demonstrated
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Adaptive re-use
Reactor to ‘RE-ACTOR’ Retaining the foodprint of the Hypha reactor , the new complex is designed within the skin of the reactor and is functionally enhanced.
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Massing Strategy
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Massing Strategy
EXPERIMENTARIUM
Adaptive reuse of the footprint and skin of the Hypha reactor
LABORATORIES
Oriented with views to the OPAL reactor
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INCUBATORS
Form of the building follows the natural contours with views into the valley
Function
experimentarium
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Level G (700 sqm) information centre - 50 sqm admin - 150 sqm lockers - 50 sqm waiting area - 100 sqm ticket counters - 50 sqm discovery centre - 300 sqm
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Level 1-3 (700 x 4 = 2800 sqm) interactive museum of science DIY labs convertible cinema / exhibition
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Function
labs : private + testing
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Level 1-3 (1800 sqm) testing labs - 225 sqm (x2) = 450 sqm storage - 100 sqm collaboration space - 300 sqm workshop space - 300 sqm
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Function
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Level 2
1 : 500
1 : 500 Interactive physical and digital installations
Research labs Private study spaces
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1 : 4000
Level 3
1 : 500
1 : 500 Experimentarium exhibition space
Research labs Library Cafeteria
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1 : 4000
Incubator floor plans
1 : 500
1 : 500
Private workspaces Meeting rooms Auditorium
Library Reading rooms Meeting rooms
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Structural detail
as prescribed by John Carrick on 20 October, 2017
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Sectional detail 1:100
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Longitudnal Section
1 : 500
1 : 500
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VISUALS
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Laboratories: Main corridor
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RE-ACTOR : Main elevation
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Main entry : Through land and water
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Experimentarium : Exhibition space on level 1
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Incubator : Nested in the valley
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Innovation Incubator : Work spaces
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models
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Initial investigation First explorations of the masterplan.
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Concept model The model is a design abstract and an expression of brutalism
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Site model
1 : 1000
The complex sits in its immediate context
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Sectional model
1 : 50
A slice through the research labs
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