Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen

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  • Design Director: Kai Chen
  • Architect: Anne-Marie Treweeke,
  • Project Designer: Milica Tumbas, Natasa Vuletas
  • Industrial Design: Design Sense, Joe Iacono, Design Sense
  • Pedagogy Consultant: Peter Jamieson
  • Project Manager: Nicole Meaker
  • Structural And Services Engineers: WSP Group
  • Fire Engineer: RAWFIRE
  • Building Surveyor: du Chateau Chun
  • Dda Consultant: du Chateau Chun
  • AV/IT: IPP Consulting
  • City: Parkville
  • Country: Australia
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Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Exterior Photography, Facade
© John Gollings

Text description provided by the architects. Designed to embody the values the Wade Institute strives to impart to its students of the Masters of Entrepreneurship, creativity, and sustainability, Lovell Chen's new teaching building in the grounds of Ormond College presents a series of contrasts.

Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Exterior Photography
© John Gollings
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Plan - Ground Floor
Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Interior Photography, Chair, Column
© John Gollings

By turns it is serious and celebratory, garden pavilion and university cloister, structurally innovative yet simple in form. The building combines unconventional teaching spaces with a roof-top tennis court, a Passivhaus approach, flexibility, and coherent design response to the complex architectural context of its site.

Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Interior Photography, Chair, Windows, Column
© John Gollings

Built on the footprint of a car park and a tennis court, fronting College Crescent, the L-shaped teaching building provides two main working spaces, with offices and ancillary rooms, all on one level. One of the tennis courts it replaces has been 'lifted', creating usable space between two massive exposed concrete slabs — the roof and floor of the building.

Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Exterior Photography
© John Gollings
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Both slabs slope gently, gathering rainwater from the court. The upper slab seems to defy gravity, supported on seemingly too-light steel mesh columns inside the building, and tied to the ground at its perimeter by further mesh columns. Full height glazing surrounds the teaching spaces, making the building transparent. Inside is a surprising combination of tranquility and energized possibility. 

Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen - Exterior Photography, Stairs
© John Gollings

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Address:Parkville VIC 3052, Australia

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Cite: "Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship / Lovell Chen" 23 Feb 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/977376/wade-institute-of-entrepreneurship-lovell-chen> ISSN 0719-8884

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