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Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Learning Innovation Building

Education, Interior Architecture

Context Concept Heritage Learning Spaces
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Learning Innovation Building

Office space for five university departments dedicated to the innovation of teaching and learning. Audio-visual integrated landscape courtyards, and flexible seminar spaces.

Location
University of Queensland, St Lucia

Client
University of Queensland

Status
Design 2009, Completed 2011

Gross Floor Area
2,250m 2

Context

The Learning Innovation Building (LIB) is located on the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus, in a prominent precinct within the campus. The site enjoys well established relationships and links with the existing campus roads, the Great Court, Circular Drive and open green spaces adjacent to the Brisbane River. Further to this, LIB is positioned between existing university buildings, some of which are heritage listed as part of the Great Court Complex.

Concept

The design process intentionally maintains and improves ‘hidden’ or secondary pedestrian links to surrounding spaces and buildings. Public courtyard space adds to an existing sequence of external spaces within the campus, including the Great Court.

Views of the campus, river, eastern suburbs and the Green Bridge are available from the upper levels of the scheme. Openings in the external envelope have been positioned to frame external views and maximise daylighting to the interior of the building.

Heritage

The intended approach is to achieve a design that is sensitive to surrounding heritage buildings, pedestrian links and campus activity. As a result, the external form is complex and reacts to the shape of the surrounding buildings. A number of the facades are highly transparent to display internal activities to the wider campus.

A design that is sensitive to surrounding heritage buildings, pedestrian links and campus activity; resulting in a complex external form and transparent facades to display internal activities to the wider campus


Learning Spaces

The four-storey educational facility provides accommodation for three university departments. The spaces provided include experimental seminar/teaching spaces, office/administration spaces, meeting/boardrooms, media editing suites and staff support facilities. A studio or atelier space termed the ‘Innovation Laboratory’ forms the focus for various department specific activities. A three-storey high void space links the horizontal floor plates vertically, improving the internal environment and contributing to the overall efficiency of the building.

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Awards Team
RAIA State Award 2016 Educational Architecture
RAIA State Award 2016 Sustainable Architecture
RAIA Regional Commendation 2016 Educational Architecture
Structural & Civil Engineers Cardno
Electrical Engineers Aurecon
Hydraulic & Mechanical Engineers WSP Group
ESD Consultant Cundall
Fire Engineer Aecom
Landscape Architect JW Concepts
Contractor Cockram
Photographer Peter Bennetts

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