The project involved the redevelopment of three tired 1980s buildings at Monash University?s Clayton campus.  The intention was to establish new informal and engaging learning hubs within the three buildings and to clarify campus wayfinding by creating new pedestrian ?walks?.

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Architects: Jackson Clements Burrows

Location: College Cres, Keysborough VIC 3173, Australia

Area: 3700.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Peter Clarke

Builder: Lend Lease

Structural: ARUP

Services Consultant: SKM-S2FF

Acoustic: Marshal Day

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From the architect. The project involved the redevelopment of three tired 1980s buildings at Monash University?s Clayton campus.  The intention was to establish new informal and engaging learning hubs within the three buildings and to clarify campus wayfinding by creating new pedestrian ?walks?.
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JCB?s response was to reinforce the main campus intersection with a formal gesture incorporating folding and twisting concrete canopies, a theatrical stair and seating platforms. The canopies provide shelter, entrance identity and a dramatic engagement with the student realm, allowing for moments of congregation, observation and contemplation from the vantage of the stair.

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