莫纳什 CL28丨澳大利亚丨Kennedy Nolan Architects

Architect：Kennedy Nolan Architects

Location：Monash University Clayton Campus, Australia; | ;View Map

Project Year：2020

Category：Universities

This project involved adapting the original Monash University central computer facility into a new complex for the Department of Mathematics and Earth Atmospheres and Environments.  The area of 1200sq.m, mostly consisting of large, windowless single storey rooms was converted to formal and informal teaching spaces and a student lounge.The success of this project consists of its adaptive re-use of a building which has transformed the spaces in terms of use and amenity but retained a visual relationship to the 1960’s building of which it is part.

The new design expression is responsive to the existing building’s austere, functional modernism – rational planning, cartesian geometry and a limited material and colour palette.  Embedded in this design approach is a close reading of the user groups, with elements which are familiar and engaging, but not so obvious that they would alienate other users. 

Examples of this approach include:

The brief required student lounges which could cater for a diverse range of student types – introvert, extrovert, solo workers, group workers, students working in a formal or relaxed fashion.  Our approach was to consider how furniture types and arrangements could support in intimate or convivial formats and to make provision for alcoves with soft acoustics and lower lighting as a refuge from more social spaces. 

Another key briefing requirement was to deliver a design which felt specific to the department of mathematics and earth, atmosphere and environments, but not be so overt as to render the facilities redundant if they were required for another faculty or student cohort.  Accordingly, references are coded and subtle.

Monash are motivated to provide facilities to encourage students to feel safe and supported on campus – to provide places for students for informal study and somewhere to be between classes and thus promote a vibrant campus life.  Accordingly our design aims for warmth and, within the constraints of Monash’s strict guidelines on performance and durability, a sense of domesticity as a respite from the institutional.  The project has had a broader effect on the campus too - radically opening up the previously blank walls of the university server and presenting a warm and reassuring light-box at a key entry point to the campus from the main car-park.

1. Facade cladding:  

Fibre Cement, Exotec Building Façade Cladding (9mm), James Hardie

Villaboard, James Hardie 

2. Flooring:   

Carpet, Custom Floor Tile (Shimmer Circle CWA), Ontera

Carpet, Kale (Spectrum Range), Godfrey Hirst

3. Doors: Custom Tasmanian Oak Doors with Glazing

4. Windows: Custom Tasmanian Oak with Glazing

5. Interior lighting:  

Titanium Surface Mounted Downlight, Unios 

Rapsody V2 Diffuser, Dietal

Custom Ceiling Lighting, Opal

Lucca Light, Archilux

Aeon Flex Mini Light Track, Lights & Tracks

Kriskros 4 Wall Light, TossB

Front Single Wall Lamp, Nordlux

Custom Pop 500, ISM Objects

6. Interior furniture:  

Canvas Scope Ottoman, Design Nation

Oslo Lounge Chair, Muuto

Oslo Sofa, Muuto

Gubi 3D Sled Chair, Gubi

404 Barstool, Howe

Liqueur Table, Ross Didier  

Easy Boy Table Art, Segis

Marina Tables, Schiavello

Tipo Chair, Axona AICHI Japan

Toss B wall lights

ISM pendant lights 

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