The proposal submitted by Charles Dewanto, C J Foo, Lorenzo Ju, Yenny Kusuma, Louis Wong, Maggie Chu and Tze Ek Ng for the Campus Design Ideas Competition for the University of Canberra received a supplementary prize for their degree of resolution, ambitious vision for the concourse and quality of presentation. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Vision: The super concourse is an ambitious proposal for rethinking the relationship between pedagogy and architectural space/ contemporary learning environment that extends beyond the brief of merely animating university life. The organic dynamics of education and its evolution in the age of open source learning calls for a revolution in negotiating a conducive learning spatial typology. Our architecture rejects the predominant, albeit outdated model of systematic institutional planning that is overly rigid; proclaims an emergent alternative, and strives to inculcate a new educational culture.
