Fenestration Australia Design Awards Winners Magazine 2017 | Page 12

Winner
AISF Best Use Of
Anodising
Australian Aluminium
Finishing
Melbourne School of Design,
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning,
University of Melbourne,
Parkville, New South Wales.
The new home to University of Melbourne’s Faculty of
Architecture, Building and Planning has been described
as a living, pedagogical building, with the new facility
setting new standards for education design in the Asia
Pacific region.
The building has four distinct façades, each responding
to the unique conditions they face. In addition to this,
the design of the building represents all disciplines
taught by the Melbourne School of Design, including
architecture, landscape architecture, property and
construction, urban design and urban planning.
With its many inventive structural and environmental
ideas, the building becomes a live learning tool for
students and staff alike. Connecting back into the
network of buildings and courtyards, the design
operates as an urban gesture reinforcing the workings
and systems of the campus.
The transparent façades and open permeable ground
plane reveals the creative and collaborative activities to
the rest of the university community.
JUDGES’ COMMENTS
The anodizing creates an interesting and beautiful
design that also affords practical shading for the
building. An elegant use of anodizing.
Architect
John Wardle Architects
Photographer John Gollings Photography
www.aafonline.com.au
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