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Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

Education, Interior Architecture, Performance Spaces, Adaptive Re-use, Teaching and Learning Spaces, Heritage

Context Concept Acoustic Design & Performance Creative Industries Studios Heritage and Adaptive Reuse Drawings
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Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT

CIP2 is a multi-purpose education facility including teaching spaces, specialist & interdisciplinary studios, teaching and research studios (music, dance, drama and visual arts), office accommodation.

Location
Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

Client
Queensland University of Technology

Status
Completed 2014

Gross Floor Area
12,000 m²

Site - City Context
Site - Views
Site - Education Corridors
Site - Access

Context

The project required a new master plan of the Gona Parade precinct of the QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, to provide for the new 10,000m2 Creative Industries building and two commercial developments of 35,000m2. The project had the opportunity to increase human activity on the ground plane, which encourages a sense of place and arrival in this part of the campus. The site's context is extremely dynamic; the master plan needs to respond to this shifting landscape of internal needs with those of external opportunities. The key influences are; education; heritage (which will impact the site utilisation); and interaction with the public realm. The strategic placement of the Creative Industries building is the critical element of the master plan.

The building needs no user manual, and as I suspected, the students will lead the culture in the spaces.

Greg Jenkins
Head of Studies - School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts QUT Creative Industries Faculty

Concept

Our vision for CIP2 was to create a place that anchors the creative industries into a cohesive village environment offering a rich and diverse sequence of spatial experiences to stimulate learning and social interaction. A key part of the concept was the placement of primary circulation paths, meeting areas, cafe and common areas to the precincts building edges with the lot 2 building incorporating a highly visible student ‘street’ to which studio spaces are addressed. The street is the place that student groups congregate between studio sessions to give a real sense of vitality and movement. It is intended for this 3-storey high space to be interactive with the outdoor environment and includes a series of cascading stairs and staggered voids to enable visual links to the upper levels.

Sectional Perspective - Vertical Arrangement
Sectional Perspective - Atrium & Core Arrangement
Sectional Perspective - West Bar Studio Arrangement
Sectional Perspective - East Bar Vertical Arrangement

Acoustic Design & Performance

KIRK’s extensive experience with acoustic separation and structural isolation detailing is leveraged to stack the double-height studio volumes vertically, maximising ground floor public and exhibition areas and provide transparency (through extensive glazing) into the dynamic dance, movement and music studios. 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 facade edge conditions that allow light and ventilation to penetrate deep into the plan.

Dance Studio
Music Studio
Music Studio
Drama Studio
Interdisciplinary Studio
Arts & Graphics Studio
Workshop

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.

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Each of the rehearsal spaces for music, drama and dance have sections of glass walls which support the notion of transparency- to be able to observe and be moved and motivated by other students' creations and work. The spectacular views on each level looking out over Brisbane, where natural light floods the space, symbolise the engagement with the world outside but also serve to bring the outside world into our work.

Emily Weir
Final Year Student of Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting Degree, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts QUT Creative Industries Faculty

Heritage and Adaptive Reuse

The site is comprised of 3 lots with two encumbered by heritage structures dating from 1914. Re-purposed Heritage Listed buildings have been carefully restored and adjacent new works have been sensitively designed & sited. The former military training ground now locates and marshals the principal facilities housing the university’s burgeoning creative industries disciplines

The rich sense of ideas and creativity in action extends to the adaptive re-use of a variety of existing heritage-listed buildings linked by several new insertions to form a virtually continuous cordon along the southern campus boundary.

Michael Keniger
ArchitectureAU, 25 Aug 2017

Site Plan
Level 1 Floor Plan
Level 2 Floor Plan
Level 3 Floor Plan
Level 4 Floor Plan
Level 5 Floor Plan
Level 6 Floor Plan
Team Publications Awards
Kirk in joint venture with Hassell
Structural & Civil Engineers Aurecon
Electrical Engineer Aurecon
Hydraulic & Mechanical Engineers Aurecon
ESD Consultant Aurecon
Landscape Architect Hassell
Theatre & Technical Equipment Arup
Building and Specialist Acoustics Arup
Photographer Peter Bennetts
Arch Daily (website) Aug 2017 Creative Industries Precinct 2 Queensland University of Technology / Richard Kirk Architect + HASSELL Link
Architecture Australia Jan/Feb 2017 Creative Industries Precinct 2, QUT, p. 80-87 Download PDF
RAIA Queensland - Jennifer Taylor Award for Educational Architecture 2019 Educational Architecture
RAIA Queensland - GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture 2019 Interior Architecture
RAIA Queensland - Don Roderick Award for Heritage Architecture 2019 Heritage Architecture
RAIA Queensland - Commendation 2019 Sustainable Architecture
RAIA Regional Commendation 2019 Educational Architecture
RAIA Regional Commendation 2019 Interior Architecture
RAIA Regional Commendation 2019 Heritage Architecture
RAIA Regional Commendation 2019 Sustainable Architecture

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