Architecture & Design can reveal images of H2O Architects’ design for Swinburne University of Technology’s Advanced Technologies Centre in Melbourne.
The state-of-the-art research and learning centre is currently six months into a 24-month construction project that is due for completion early in 2011.
The structure includes an innovative self cleaning profiled façade precast concrete cladding. The façade is designed to have less glazing and more mass to improve thermal performance.
The project is one of the first educational buildings to register for five Green Stars under the recently-released Green Star institutional tool.
H2O’s design is targeting a 25 per cent reduction in energy consumption when compared to other facilities and it will be monitored for performance over its life, after completion in January 2011.
The project includes 18,000 sqm of engineering space focused on educational and research facilities, accommodated in a pair of 10-storey towers located behind a three level structure with a street frontage, with the entire facility operating as a single complex.
Housing a 24/7 undergraduate learning hub and a 500-seat lecture theatre, the facility will be home to the Brain Sciences Institute, Advanced Molecular and Proteomics Facility, Microfabrication and Microanalytical Facility, Polymer Processing, Polymer Testing Biomechanics and the unique to Australia Strong Structures Laboratory.
