QUT’S NEW SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & BUILT ENVIRONMENT

INTERSECTION OF BUILT & NATURAL ENVIRONMENT CONNECT THE CAMPUS TO NATURE, LAND, COUNTRY LINKING PEDAGOGY + SPACE + RADICAL INCLUSIVITY

Design Statement

To address the overall goal of showcasing creativity, innovation and community engagement. The new ABE building development will house teaching, research, and community, and expand QUT’s existing science and engineering precinct, which will create a vibrant, inclusive and diverse learning space and social meeting place.

The new ABE Building is conceived as a series of interconnected ‘places and spaces’ located around a significant gathering intersection courtyard , which is an urban scaled ‘outdoor room’ that welcome the public to visit 24/7.

AS QUT’s new frontage/gateway toward the river and public, the new buildings will optimize the riverside entry precinct and enhance campus presence, visibility, and arrival experience.

INTERSECTION OF NATURE & BUILT

• The special location of the new ABE site make it become the intersection of the built and natural environment. In the north side of the proposed site, it’s QUT’s existing campus which in the form of groups of square teaching building boxes. In contrast, the south side of the site is a lush dense subtropical rainforest and brisbane river. Therefore, the new school of ABE building aims to create a central intersection courtyard to blur the edge of building and landscape,indoor and out door space to celebrate and embrace our amzing subtropical climate.

Also, a wide range of native plant spaces and Indigenous vegetation of the local area are planted in the courtyard will only enhance the wellbeing and sitimulate the experience of the building users (students, staff,community), but also serve as a site of shelter and food for local fauna

CONNECT CAMPUS TO LAND, COUNTRY

This central axis can not only reminds the community to always to remeber the colonial history of the site, but also can represents the new ABE builsing will bring us from history to the future, return the land and nature to people and community, we build future together on the land, we make deeper connection to the land and country. We will achieve the reconnection between the built and natural environment, people and land.

LINKING PEDAGOGY + SPACE + RADICAL INCLUSIVITY

PEDAGOGY In addition to the traditional academic teaching and manual craft studio, Future Design Studios pedagogy will pay more attention to integrated design and advanced technology. The future ABE aims to :Be more flexible and practical and promote active learning and social interaction

RADICAL INCLUSIVITY the main focus of radical inclusivity is to put student’s wellbeing in centre.To provide inclusive Support, it is essential that students are placed at the centre to ensure their collective mental health and well-being. In this proposal, nature becomes a medium to link students and various learning spaces. Biophilic, Salutogenic and Eudemonic design theories are applied in the new building. By creating a Central Courtyard with water features and plants can be access or has visual connection in every level allow students to have a refreshment during busy study.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200

The ground level is designed to be the same height as the exsisting QUT campus Pblock level 4. The proposed new ABE Building will be connected through a bridge terrace to the east lawn which is currently a open green space above the P- block swimming pool.

B2

CARPARK PLAN 1:200

A 2 level semi-underground carpark is align with the existing level 2& 3 of P block, with 136 carparks for staff and students.

The lowest basement level B2 is at is at he lowest level of the site, which starts from RL 7.000.

BASEMENT 2 | 2180 ㎡ |RL 7.000

• 78 CARPARKS

• 2PWDCARPARKS

• 30 BIKE STORAGE

• EOT FACILITY

• PLANT ROOM

B1 UNDERGROUND CARPARK PLAN 1:200

BASEMENT 2 | 2200 ㎡ |RL10.000

• 78 CARPARKS

• 2PWDCARPARKS

• 10 MOTORBIKE PARKING

• PLANT ROOM

LOWER GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200

LOWER GROUND LEVEL| 1450 ㎡

RL13.000

ABE INTEGRATED WORKSHOP

• ROBOSTIC BAY

• LASER CUTTING& 3D PRINTING

• 3D SCCAING

• WOOD WORKSHOP

• FABRICATION WELDING

SOUTH ELEVATION 1:200

WEST ELEVATION 1:200

MATERIALITY

• The main structure maerial of the building is reinforced concrete. Here the concrete is painted green - or washed green- throughout the interior/ exterior spaces. developing a delicate patina and fading in the harsh Queensland sun. It softens the edges of the building and given the lush green setting of the Brisbane riverbank.

• The interior space using natural Timber material of CLT and GLT to stimulate and connect both visually and experientially to nature.

• The landscape stairs and plant box elements are mainly using Queensland yellow stone(the buiding material of OGH) and recycled timber.

Facade Concept

• The form of the buidling facade is inspired by the nature----the large Spectacular moternbay fig trees along riverside. Just like the fig tree’s aerial roots from its branches, which upon reaching the ground, thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the weight of its crown. The roof is like the big canopy, and the wall is the main trunk, the columns and the louvers are like the aerial roots and branches.

SUSTAINABLE SHADING SYSTEM

• SHADING TECHNOLOGY Its self-shading, overlapping volumes and angled exterior louvers serve to reduce solar heating within, reducing overall reliance on energy-intensive climate control systems.

SECTION 1-1 1:200

SECTION 2-2 1:200

SPACES ALONG THE CENTRAL HISTORY AXIS VISUAL CONNECTION TO THE OGH

The more formal function programs are locateda long the central axis of the higher levels of the building.

Level 2- meeting spaces

Level 3-research hub

Level 4-large lecture hall and head of school office

All the spaces along the central historical axis have direct view connections to the old government house. This visual connection reminds the students, staff,and community to remember and reflect on the colonial history of the site and land.