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EducationStaff WriterWed 17 Aug 16

1970s Supergraphics Highlights UQ Architecture School Refurbishment

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m3architecture has designed stage one of the alterations and additions for the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Architecture School, set within the existing Zelman Cowen building.

m3architecture’s design balances the brutalist building, designed in 1974 by Nutter Stevenson and Partners, with bold colours and graphics that are reminiscent of the supergraphics of the 1970s, while breathing contemporaneity and new life into the space.

The UQ Architecture School has been the training ground for many well-known and prominent Australian architects.

The works include a renovation of level two, designed to be used as a flexible studio, lecture and seminar space, as well as a making and fabrication space.

m3architecture transformed single purpose rooms with no views, into flexible and porous spaces that support the social and collaborative nature of architectural education.

Each of the two new spaces have no ‘edge’ – spilling out to adjoining spaces, and with views to the exterior.

UQ Dean of Architecture and Head of School Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady says the design has reinvigorated the teaching and learning spaces.

“With these renovations, we have gained open and adaptable spaces that reflect the way in which architectural learning now takes place – with complete fluidity between talking, drawing, and analogue and digital making,” Sandra says.

The design is inspired by the UQ Architecture School’s existing mural by Pancho Guedes, which tells a story of chance meetings, shared ideas and joy.

m3architecture’s design picks up on these themes, breathing new life into the School for the benefit of students, staff and visitors alike.

“Students have quickly taken to the new social space, moving the furniture around for different events, and we are seeing greater ease in the connections being made between academics, architects and students,” Sandra says.

The result provides a new identity for the School, while drawing light in and connecting the interior to its leafy surroundings. It provides the capacity for staff, students and visitors to share a communal kitchen as part of a new flexible and collaborative tutorial and exhibition space.

m3architecture has since been engaged to design a second stage of renovations to learning spaces on the building’s top floor.

Photography by Brett Boardman.

 

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