QUT Creative Industries Studios

CIP2 is a world-class innovative creative industries facility, with twelve dedicated and inter-disciplinary studios for Dance, Music, Drama and Visual Arts. The building’s key function, as the new home for the creative disciplines, was an opportunity to make a landmark facility for both the University and community. The co-location of diverse creative disciplines provided an opportunity for the building to have a rich expression. Most of the studio spaces have access to natural light and ventilation. This led to a unique building form through the desire for degrees of transparency not normally associated with acoustically driven spaces. The openness of the building, for a range of diverse functions, yielded variable façade edge conditions that allow light and ventilation to penetrate deep into the plan.