Alexandria Basketball Centre in Perry Park

Perry Park is a hidden gem; a public green space within an industrial hardstand area.  Crucial to the design is that Perry Park is maintained first and foremost as a public park, particularly in light of the future development of the Green Square Town Centre nearby. It has a unique charm.  Its character as a ‘walled garden’, with an open centre and ‘gardenesque’ planted edge, is something to be retained and built upon, not re-designed.  New uses that provide more opportunities and choice are to be layered over the existing infrastructure.  Public park use will extend over the synthetic turf sporting field when not in gae mode.

The realisation of an outstanding 6 court multi-purpose indoor sports centre and associated facilities lies in the simplicity of the solution.  The volume required for such a centre creates an imposing internal space by its very nature.  The challenge lies in establishing a successful relationship with the park and the street; an integrated urban design and landscape solution.Within and across the park, the intention is to use the building’s length as a backdrop to the mature trees and playing field.  The building mass is inescapably large for a small park and is not to be denied; its treatment as an element in the park is to be celebrated and connected to the greater park.  The upper level of the sports centre is light-weight construction of double skin of ventilated polycarbonate sheeting which is animated with a subtle graphic that could easily become a public work of integrated public art.  The most prominent part of the built edge contributes to the park.

By creating 2 levels within the sports centre, both Maddox Street and Perry Park benefit from a direct connection to the activities of the centre.  4 general courts at a slightly elevated level to the playing field have direct visual and physical access to the outside.  Slightly raising the external concourse level between the building and the playing field allows integrated seating overlooking the field and a stronger dialogue between the indoor and outdoor uses.  The design approach melds the various sporting and ancillary functions, landscape and park, into a cohesive response.

The 2 event courts at the lower Maddox Street level provide the building with a street presence as well as activating the streetscape with the ability to enter the administration as well as see into the event courts.  The prominence of the sport centre on the street is an appropriate gesture for a public building.  It announces it place as a public building and is easily understood as such in a predominantly industrial area.  A wide stair and ramps rise up beside the centre to the concourse level with a resulting view of Perry Park, the playing field and edge of the sports centre.  The cafe is located on the concourse at park with extensive views.  As more of the industrial sites are adaptively reused, amenities such as the cafe will be in demand.

Timber lining of the sports centre will provide a cost effective and durable hall with atmosphere and warmth as well as be used for acoustic treatment.

The building orientation and design supports natural ventilation and passive solar access, and PV panels are provided on the roof to generate energy for use in building and park.

Revitalisation of the park, not re-invention will provide best value for money.  Existing landscape features are retained where possible, and provide the structure to new park overlays.  Well considered landscape and architectural design that minimises excavation and fill, and the incorporation of the hockey/ soccer facilities into the multipurpose facility rather than as a stand-alone building, are key to reducing project costs.  All materials are chosen to be robust, with good longevity, and minimal on-going maintenance costs.

Ensuring a carbon neutral facility cannot be achieved by only installing roof mounted PV arrays.  In order to achieve carbon neutrality, the facility itself will need to be a low carbon development consuming very low levels of energy.  This will be achieved by relying on effective natural ventilation for the internal courts, effective day-lighting of interior spaces and control systems which will limit the use of lighting to only when it is required.

Passive design options have been addressed by developing a design which provides an abundant of day-lighting with reduced thermal load.  This has been achieved by providing the polycarbonate sheeting to the upper levels of the court walls providing access to daylight deep into the court spaces.  Passive cross flow ventilation is achieved by operable louvres at low level and high levels allowing rising heat to be removed by buoyancy or cross breezes.  Particular emphasis has been provided to passive shading the intense solar gain from the western summer sun.

Project team:

Lacoste+Stevenson & DJRD architects in association

Thierry Lacoste, David Stevenson, Robin Dyke, Joeffrey Rex,Tasmin Dunn, Nicole Fisher

Chinatown tourist information kiosk

“While a Chinatown had existed in Sydney since the 1870s, it was only during the twentieth century that the term came into currency. Moreover, the acceptance of Chinatown as a desirable expression of Chinese ethnicity within Sydney in the 1970s coincided with the adoption of multiculturalism, which culminated in the opening of the Dixon Street Mall in August 1980.

The reshaping of ethnicity in Chinatown demanded a reconstruction of an imaginary past (Chinatown has been perceived for many years as an undesirable ethnic ghetto) and a unified cultural identity, which most of the ethnic Chinese in Australia would never have experienced. The use of antiquated ‘traditional Chinese’ symbols to represent the Chinese community — ceremonial archways, lions, lanterns and pagoda style shopfronts — reclaimed a common Chinese heritage that could instantly be identified as ‘Chinese’ by non-Chinese people. These reshaped images of Chinese ethnicity, especially the ceremonial archway, became a mnemonic for Chinatown: a unified, sterilised identity for the Chinese community reconstructed from an imaginary past that elided the complex heterogeneity of Chinese communities. Chinatown was transformed into a hyper-real product of postmodernity.

Nowadays, it is clear that the tourist function is beginning to outweigh other functions.”*

The recent conversion of the seating pagoda in Dixon Street to a tourist information kiosk gives it a contemporary interpretation. It is not a simulacrum, a reproduction of a Chinese image that has ceased to be representative of modern China, nor Chinese people living within a multicultural society. The design transforms the existing structure into a highly sophisticated enclosure embracing tourism iconography. The pagoda is transformed in a patterned red lantern by day which is illuminated by night. 

It consists of 2 semi-circular light boxes that are clad with patterned, curved glass; the pattern was created by paper-cut artist Pamela Mei-Leng See with cultural reference to the Chinese community including flowers, fish and birds.  The sliding semi-circle of glass screens opens to reveal a hot red interior containing a wall of shelving for brochures, pamphlets and tourist information. Sydney’s Chinatown boasts the ninth highest tourist visitation rate in Australia and this glowing lantern will become it’s red emblem.

* fragments from: ‘Negotiating Identity: Ethnicity, Tourism and Chinatown’. Anna-Lisa Mak

RED LANTERN:  Chinatown tourist information kiosk

Location: Corner of Dixon and Golburn Streets, Sydney, NSW, Australia

33°52’39.70″S, 151°12’13.98″E

Client: City of Sydney: Mano Ponnambalam, Design Manager; Tara Day, Project Manager

Date: Completed in January 2012

Lead consultant: Frost* Design: Joanna Mackenzie

Architects: Lacoste+Stevenson: Thierry Lacoste, David Stevenson, Angela Rowson

Artist:  Pamela Mei-Leng See

Electrical / Lighting Engineer: Lighting, Art & Science: Peter McLean

Structural Engineer: Simpson Design Associates: Andrew Simpson

BCA:  Philip Chun: Philip Smillie

Access:  Morris Goding: David Goding

Contractor: Growthbuilt: Lianna Augoustis, Mark De Luca

Façade/Screens/Doors: AGP: Warren Byrne

Screen: Axolotl group (Kris Torma)

Curved Glass: Bent and Curved Glass (Stephen Togher)

Photography/Images: © Brett Boardman

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red beacon

intriguing glow!...

new photo oportunities...

a new dating place...

glowing at all times

All photographs by © Brett Boardman

A room in the city:

UTS is building a new Podium to its iconic tower. This new podium gives UTS the opportunity to reinvent its presence along Broadway, in the Sydney and beyond. Lacoste + Stevenson’s design, together with Jean Nouvel’s residential tower, Norman Foster’s commercial buildings, and DCM’s Engineering and IT Faculty Building will create an outstanding precinct along this section of Broadway.

The new podium will create a giant public room open on Broadway. It will not only provide a new main entrance to the university, but a large range of activities that will attract a broad public.

In contrast to the Brutalist architecture of the Tower, the new podium is open and welcoming. It intervenes as an undulating semi-transparent building wrapping the base of the tower.  This is achieved with curved glass and a white frit in the pattern of a forest.  It appears soft and almost pliable like a curtain; its smooth surface blowing inward dramatically to mark the main entrance on Broadway.

At street level, the proposal encourages active street edges.  The transparency of the façade will reveal exhibition and public spaces inside the entrance on the ground floor.  The Co-op Book Shop on the corner of Jones Street and the cinema entrance and café to the east will provide activity along a substantial portion of the street frontage.

Large-scale structural, lace steel columns contribute to the lightness of the building. Their hollow centre allows visual connections between floors, natural ventilation and the light to penetrate deep inside. Vertical circulation will take place inside the columns.  The columns are filled with water for fire rating.

Lacoste + Stevenson’s “Room in the City” exhibition features conceptual diagrams, perspectives, models and animations.

The exhibition opens on the 4^th May at UTS Architecture, Kensington St Warehouse, 50 Kensington St, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia.

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Reg Bartley Oval Grandstand Refurbishment and Extension, new Kiosk

The design strategy was to restore the existing structure’s prominence in the parkland and create better physical and visual connections around it.  Three buildings that surrounded and attached to the grandstand, cutting it off from the street and parkland behind, were demolished. In order to minimize the impact of the new additions, they are placed directly behind the grandstand and divided into 3 smaller buildings instead of one building, reducing the overall bulk and scale.  The new buildings are set off the grandstand with a passageway between them.  Connection between the new and the old is on the first floor via a steel mesh walkway that lightly bridges the four buildings allowing light to filter below. The ancillary buildings are clad in the same weatherboard profile as the grandstand and with the heights of the new buildings aligning with the grandstand; they echo the scale and expression of the grandstand.

The ground floor of the three new buildings houses the male and female public toilets and a storage room.  At high level, the timber façade into each of these rooms is perforated with a flower pattern allowing natural light and ventilation into these spaces, casting flower patterns around the rooms. The ground staff facilities on the top floor are also animated with perforations and views to the sky and trees through round skylights.

FLOWER POWER

Reg Bartley Oval Ground Staff Facilities and Public Amenities

Location: Reg Bartley Oval, Rushcutters Bay Park NSW, Australia

33°52’25.77″S, 151°13’42.83″E

Client: City of Sydney

Date: Completed in February 2011

Design Team: Thierry Lacoste, David Stevenson, Angela Rowson, Sasha Jovanovic, Adam Grasso, Alicia Bayl, Bart Dewilde, Sergio Corona, Chloe Lanser, Djibraan Hossen, Leonard Wong, Felicity Gill, Louise Parsonage, Lucie Hybnerova

Landscape Architect: JMD Design: Anton James, Kathryn Stewart

Structural Engineer: Simpson Design Associates: Andrew Simpson, Scott Baty

ESD, Hydraulic Engineer: Harris Page: Scott Johnson, David Page, Philip Restifo

Electrical / Lighting Engineer: Lighting, Art & Science: Peter McLean

Heritage Architect: Urbis: Steven Davies, Jennifer Faddy

Mechanical Engineer: Erbas & Associates: Ken Erbas, Sylvia Enders

BCA: Advance Building Approvals: Ian Pickering

PCA: BCA Logic: Stuart Boyce

Access: Accessibility Solutions: Mark Relf

Contractor: CBG

Photography/Images: © Lacoste + Stevenson Architects

surrounde by trees

routed flowers

Staff lunch room (almost finished!)

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Surrounded by flowers

Minimal link between old and new

Building configuration allows views of the heritage facade

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Alexandria Industrial Estate revitalisation

Alexandria Industrial Estate is situated in a suburb undergoing a significant transformation from industrial to mixed use with the proposed Green Square Civic Centre at its heart.

The existing 6 hectare site is filled with an architecturally diverse range of industrial warehouse buildings.  The building on the corner of Bourke Road and Huntley Street has a simple dark brick façade with a saw-tooth roof profile.  With the client seeking to transform this building into retail/showroom on the ground floor with commercial suites above (effectively doubling the floorspace) another storey was required.

The addition is built on top of the sawtooth profile to maintain this feature of the original building. A different material is proposed such as perforated rusted steel or a light-weight semi-transparent plastic sheet.  The new façade will allow light into the offices but also self shade.  The profile of the two distinct materials coming together retains the original roof profile in a graphic sense and resembles huge jaws running the length of the facade.

Invited competition, 2009

A unique opportunity to clean up the assorted collection of structures in Tamarama Park behind the beach; picnic shelters, playground, garbage bins, bbq facilities…
Our proposal was to round them up into one light and airy structure. A structure where the picnic shelters are united but face out into the park in different directions. The footprint of the new structure is minimised and their visual impact lessened.

Free the park from "stuff"

PROJECT TEAM:
Thierry Lacoste
David Stevenson
Angela Rowson

Completed in 2000, NSW RAIA Chapter Commercial Architecture Award

I remember visiting Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux in France where le Corbusier built an entire street, “La Cite Fruges”, in the 1924. Overtime, this row of houses have been altered dramatically. People personalized their house by adding vernacular architectural elements like pitch roof, pediments, capitals. From pure modernist houses they became a mixture of regional dwellings with American TV series influences! In the late 70′s, they were hardly recognizable and were cited as the perfect example of the failure of modernism. They disgust purists but delight post-modernists. I think time often adds layers, especially when it is spontaneous architecture mainly designed and built by the inhabitants. The essential qualities remain: scale, interrelation between dwellings, connection between inside and outside…Now a sign of our times is that most of these houses have been refurbished to their original design turning the street into a museum and one of them houses an actual museum!

“Office Wrap” is now 10 years old. The building has been used efficiently with no particular regard for the architecture. Surprisingly there are very little changes. A few signs have appeared here or there but nothing major.

The main change is the landscape. Now, it is hard to see the building from the street as the landscaping has grown so much. The corner of Bunnerong and Military Roads is almost unrecognizable. Glimpses of the longest façade appear between the trees and bushes. The intense red of the building may have faded but it is as sharp as ever, 10 years on …Happy 10th birthday!!

View from Bunnerong Road, 2010

View from Bunnerong Road, 2000. Photo Brett Boardman

View from Military Road, 2010

View from Military Road, 2000. Photo Brett Boardman

Private Commission 2009.

The Q Stores building in Bourke Road, Alexandria, was designed by Harry Seidler for the NSW Government Stores in 1968. It is a relatively unusual example of Harry Seidler’s work – he designed approximately 180 buildings but only 3 warehouses / industrial buildings and while not one of his more famous buildings, this building does contain some impressive elements of industrial building design of that era – particularly the use of a space frame for the roof, the tapering concrete columns and the u-shaped type of glazing used for highlighting.

As the internal height is not rational for warehouse use and the front and rear courtyards not large enough for modern truck access, Goodman the new owner of the building decided to adaptively reuse it as high-technology industry units.

Lacoste + Stevenson were commissioned to refurbish this significant building.

The architectural approach taken to Harry Seidler’s Q Stores in Bourke Road, Alexandria is to treat it as a heritage item. While it is not listed as such, the proposed architectural intervention is strengthened by this approach as it keeps the original building facades mostly in tact and the internal additions are placed so that they have as little impact as possible on the impressive space fame.

The aim of the adaptive reuse proposal is to retain this important building by introducing a variety of high-tech uses housed in pods that sit within the original structure. The pods form a collection of work places along a central “avenue” beneath the substantial skylights that dominate the roof. The visibility of the space frame is retained along the length of the avenue and retains its prominence as pod walls set back at high level.

The central avenue is activated by the glass-fronted work places, a café and a gym. The avenue is furnished and planted so as to make it a space that is used by people working at Q Stores. The avenue leads to a new opening and deck in the western wall. (Refer to the Landscape Report for details).

Work place pods are strategically located in relation to the skylights to ensure that natural light enters the building. As well as the central avenue, courtyards are created under skylights between pods as additional public open space. Openings under skylights are either single storey or double height depending on their location and function in relation to open space or within a work area.

Work pods are flexible, open plan areas that suit a variety of fit-outs. They are either single or double storey spaces with access from stairs and lifts in the public open space or internal stairs. The construction is a combination of solid walls with substantial areas of glass shop fronts that may include graphics and colour. Care will be taken to detail the construction of walls to ensure that they are detailed to work with the space frame members.

The Basement Level car park proposes infilling the loading docks with a steel and mesh structure to make full use of the level for car parking. Access from this level to the ground floor is via a new stairwell and lift. Shower facilities are includes on this level to encourage use of the bicycles.

Externally, the Q Stores will appear little changed to the casual observer from Bourke Road. The most noticeable change driving by will be the landscape treatment in the car park and along the street edge (Refer to the Landscape Report for details).

The Bourke Street façade roller shutter openings will be converted to large glazed doors and a screen with the existing glass C channels at high-level extended across the opening. New window openings will be made in the same style as the existing windows.

The northern and southern facades are less visible and it is proposed to add the necessary fire stairs and any services plant along these edges in the pebble beds along side the paths.

The western façade retains the sun shading element, adds new windows to suit the existing precast panel modules and a new balcony and stair as homage in a Seidleresque style.

The roof is dotted with substantial skylights which have driven the planning of work places below, the natural ventilation and smoke exhaust. Their importance to the suitability of this adaptive reuse cannot be underestimated. 4 new skylights have been added and the existing ones are adapted by removing the roof sheeting, replacing the opaque sheeting with translucent or adding operable louvres.

CLIENT:

Goodman+

PROJECT TEAM:

Thierry Lacoste

David Stevenson

Angela Rowson

Alicia Bayle

HERITAGE:

Urbis, Stephen Davies

LANDSCAPE:

JMD Design

Coming soon…

A new cafe adjacent to the Boutwell Draper Gallery in Redfern.

The facade showcases the work of the artist currently exhibiting and is changed at each opening.

This artwork is divided in 3 parts. The middle part slide behind the top one to create a wide open servery.

http://www.boutwelldrapergallery.com.au

PROJECT TEAM:
Thierry Lacoste
David Stevenson
Angela Rowson

Open EOI/optional competition 2009, shortlisted for Stage 2 design competition

The new UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology building takes advantage of its prominent location at the southern gateway to the Sydney CBD, announcing the presence of UTS as a dynamic and contemporary urban campus embedded in the life of the city. As a technical university with strong links to industry and a major research emphasis, this building is an active testing ground for the latest thinking on engineering and information technology science. In particular it showcases the area where these two disciplines come together including developing innovative solutions for climate control.

With a digitally programmable ambient facade facing Broadway, a breathing façade to the North allowing natural cross ventilation from a biofilter garden courtyard and an accessible green roofscape, this building is designed to support state-of-the-art climate control systems and facilitate the active testing and development of systems for the future.

UTS’s commitment to research is showcased on the prominent Broadway façade. The entire façade is populated with studios for the University’s large PhD community giving these students the ‘best seats in the house’ with access to views and natural light. No more hidden nooks where PhD students are forced to spend years in the dark. The façade becomes a sign for the activity of academic research across the faculties of the University. LED lighting can be programmed by the faculty to create a subtle but information-rich display to the passing traffic and pedestrians.

Engaging with industry and the broader community through a series of event spaces and research laboratories will ensure that this new building operates as a creative hub encouraging interaction and experimentation. The ground floor and roof-scape are accessible to the pubic, with the Media Lab positioned as the key attractor. This is a building about people, learning and the exchange of ideas.

2.0 UTS CITY CAMPUS MASTER PLAN
2020
The UTS Master plan aims to create a new public realm for the Campus. This scheme adds the whole ground floor and rooftop of the Engineering/ IT Faculty Building to the public realm, creating an expansive base to help connect and orient students across this urban campus.
The UTS Master plan calls for an Iconic Gateway Building on this site. This building provides a strong built form, both visually and conceptually which will help to position UTS as an innovative and progressive university. The visual presence of the screen element facing Broadway will help it to become known as the home of the UTS PhD students. It will send a simple yet clear message that UTS is a research focussed university, and provides another reason to become a university of first choice for PhD students across Australia
and overseas.

3.0 EVOLUTION OF UTS CAMPUS
The UTS campus is a contrast to the other two main Sydney universities. While the University of Sydney is steeped in history and the University of NSW is a ‘modern’ planned campus whose facilities and public domain have been transformed since 1990, the University of Technology is Sydney’s truly urban university campus. From its beginnings as a technical college in individual buildings that addressed the street but not each other, it has grown to gather new and old facilities that are in need of another layer of integration.
The layer of integration will include circulation patterns that respond to the existing facilities and anticipate the development of new buildings on campus as well as new development in the area, new buildings that respond to the master plan and create not only new centres of learning but facilities such as cultural, social and recreational that form a community; retail, cafes, cinemas, gardens, art gallery, clubs.

4.0 URBAN CONTEXT
The western gateway to the CBD at Wattle and Abercrombie Streets is the threshold where the urban intensity steps up from the smaller scale of building types that line Broadway from the City Road intersection up to the Wattle St/ Abercrombie Street intersection. In the area west of UTS, Broadway is lined by a mix of 19th and 20th century buildings. On the north side, the relatively recent residential development retained a line of 19th century two and three story shop buildings in front of the larger built form of the residential towers. The UTS Broadway Site is a different condition and requires a different response; the land is long and narrow and must respond to Building 10.
The Fraser’s CUB development across Broadway, which combines with this building to create the western gateway, is built to the boundary of the site with a strong form that rises 3 stories above this proposal. The Foster designed building on that corner retains the existing hotel and cantilevers the new commercial space above.
Our proposal creates a similar street edge condition with an active retail presence along its Broadway frontage, tucked under the new built form. There is an awning above the footpath, to the extent that it can be built whilst avoiding the mature plane trees.

5.0 ACTIVE STREET EDGES
This proposal sets up the possibility for the reestablishment of a fine grain level of activity on the north side of Broadway from the City Road intersection all the way to Railway Square. The scheme includes small scale retail premises along the Broadway frontage which could continue along the frontage of the UTS tower to the east when the library and cinema projects are built as part of the broader master plan. A café is proposed on the Jones Street frontage, which would trade out onto the street, particularly when Jones Street becomes a pedestrian way.

6.0 PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT THROUGH THE SITE
The ground floor level of this building connects at both the Wattle and Jones Street entries, which allows movement through the building, as part of the circulation route across the campus from Central Station to Wattle Street. The main entry for the Broadway Building is in Jones Street. It caters for the majority of users coming by public transport from Central Station. It will connect to the proposed library and is the main entry for students as they move about the campus and will be enhanced should Jones Street be further pedestrianisation. Escalators are located close to this entry to encourage their use as primary way to move up and down the building, to lecture theatres on the first floor and beyond, thus reducing waiting times for lifts. The entrance in Wattle Street is the main western entry for the campus and an important entry point for this building. It allows movement through the building and provides two ground level connections to level 2 in Building 10 which will assist in integrating these two buildings making the overall campus more porous.

7.0 GROUND FLOOR FORUM
The advantage of an 8 metre change of level across the site from east to west is the opportunity it creates for the ground floor plane to vary in height as it descends from Jones St to Wattle St via ramps and stairs. The change in levels is mirrored above with a contoured soffit that reflects the raked seating of the lecture theatres above. The lecture theatres are elevated to the first floor for a number of reasons; to activate the ground floor forum with the coming and going of large numbers of students, to create the opportunity for the structural theatre walls along the north facade to transfer loads from the 4.2 metre structural grid above to a 20 metre grid resulting in an expansive, ground floor space with only 6 columns demonstrating a strong structural engineering solution. The result is an open and expansive connection to the internal garden and biofilter. Views through the ground floor forum are uninterrupted.

8.0 FAÇADE AS SCREEN: KNOWLEDGE ILLUMINATES THE CITY
The southern façade/screen addressing Broadway is the conceptual and physical manifestation of the PhD students at UTS. It gives pride of place to the PhD students who represent the intellectual capital of the university.
The screen gives rise to student’s aspiration to undertake a PhD at UTS and is a powerful symbol for the university as it develops into the 21st century. Gone are the rabbit warrens of previous faculty buildings for PhD students. The screen serves as a slick glass showcase by day in a variety of patterned glass, and by night it represents IT research and development: the visualization of information. The window frames contain programmable LED lighting that may represents an abstract interpretation of particular research or literal representation of data and images, the content of which is programmed by the students. Detailed information on the current screen content is found on smaller screens along Broadway and via the faculty website. The screen sets the static in motion. The LED facade activation at night is not perceived internally by PhD students

9.0 FLEXIBLE FLOOR PLATE AND STRUCTURE
The column-free floor plates of the teaching and learning spaces presents UTS with the best opportunity of floor space able to be genuinely reconfigured. Where larger spaces are required, the floor plate is deeper with more façade length and natural light and conversely narrower for smaller spaces. An elevated service floor allows services to be relocated or upgraded as uses and needs change. Lighting and other servicesare run between the expressed ceiling beams and can be added or deleted as room sizes changes. Both the floor and the ceiling services are supplied from the core running the length of the building.

10.0 BUILT FORM GENERATION
1- The site is relatively long and narrow, and abuts the existing building 10.
2- This scheme separates the new building from building 10, to avoid complex operational complications, complicating fire safety issues and allow the buildings to function independently as separate faculties.
3- The gap between the buildings is expanded around the middle of the site to increase sun penetration and create an adequately sized space to locate the biofilter garden which both buildings will look out onto.
4- The north eastern facade is aligned to allow another screen, smaller than the Broadway Ambient Screen, to be fixed to it to show in high quality resolution, information from the Engineering/ IT faculty and other parts of the university. It could also be used for general information and for small to medium sized events particularly if Jones Street gets pedestrianised.
5- Bridges connect the Broadway Building to Building 10 at various levels. These could be increased in the future if required to suit particular configurations of the two buildings.
6- A green rooftop is a key part of the Broadway building, with the Media Lab and Café/ function spaces leading out to it. This can connect to the roof deck under construction on building 10 to highlight the opportunities for new and interesting spaces and views from this urban campus.
7- The services core of the building is raised to protect this green roof space from the noise and fumes from Broadway below.
8- The PHD Screen is a sealed façade, that adds to the protection of the roofspace from the wind, particularly the south-westerly winds that are often associated with colder winds in Sydney.
9- At night, the PHD screen can be programmed to create an ambient light pattern, reflecting different information processed through the Media Lab, the faculty or the specific work underway by PHD students, further reinforcing UTS’s reputation as a technologically advance university.

11.0 GROUND FLOOR AND ROOFTOP CREATIVE HUB: SYMBOLIC URBAN CAMPUS
A creative hub requires a broad mix of people from inside and outside the university. People need to come together socially and professionally for creativity to spark. The Media lab is the catalyst for attracting a mix of people, and the Doctoral screen facade on Broadway is the sign. The Media Lab is located on the upper floors and connected to the green rooftop. The rooftop also contains the student centre and bar with social activity, presentation, product launches and lecture spaces, high quality screens on the back of the elevated PhD and services element. This exciting, multi use, public urban space will be the necessary catalyst for a creative hub to emerge.
The ground floor forum will house a media lab presentation space, recessed into the ground plane. The public will be encouraged to visit the faculty with demonstration of research work and media events.

12.0 INTERACTIVE AND TRANSFORMABLE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH LABS
These spaces are on the open ground floor forum with a range of spaces and mezzanines that become specific research spaces and part of the media laboratory. Exhibition spaces and regular teaching spaces on this level will be more visible and accessible to the public and university community. PhD offices can be located on the same level as appropriate industry research projects, providing separate but adjacent accommodation to encourage chance interaction as well as programmed meetings and working sessions.

the site

relation with existing building10

create a garden on the northern side

address the Alumni Green

connect with existing building 10

create a garden on the rooves

shield this garden from Broadway

shelter the garden from the wind

create a media facade at night

Elements

Ground floor plan

View from Broadway at Night

View from Abercrombie Street

PROJECT TEAM:

ARCHITECT Lacoste + Stevenson Architects and Six Degrees
in association with Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke
Thierry Lacoste
David Stevenson
Craig Allchin
Robin Dyke
Angela Rowson
Sasha Jovanovic
Armand Devillard
Tan Zhining
Annie So
Eunice Ho
Belinda Dimarzio
ENGINEERS ARUP
Structural Peter MacDonald
Façade Peter Hartigan
Vertical Transportation Peter Tomlinson
Lighting Tim Carr
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Media Architecture
Tom Barker
Hank Haeusler
ESD / SERVICES Steensen Varming
Electrical Chris Arkins
Mechanical Illina Nanitsos
Green Star Diksha Vijapur
HYDRAULIC Warren Smith and Partners
Warren Smith
LANDSCAPE JMD Design
Anton James
BCA BCA Logic
Stuart Boyce
TRAFFIC TTPA
Andrew Morse
QUANTITY SURVEYOR WT Partnership
Gerry Heaton