Announcement
Interior Architecture Award
Uni SA Kaurna Building - Interior Design
by John Wardle Architects + HASSELL. Architects in Association
The UniSA City West Campus Stage 2 project sees the completion of three
out of four new buildings for the UniSA City West Campus. The buildings, in
total will establish a new gravitational centre and spiritual heart for this
university. The Kaurna Building is home to the Louis Laybourne-Smith School
of Architecture and Design and the South Australian School of Art. This
four-storey building creates a new face for the university on Hindley
Street. Building 3A, currently under construction, will provide the
University with a new address on North Terrace; together the two buildings
create a new backdrop to Fenn Place. Fenn Place has become integral to the
experience of the campus. Irregularly finned precast panels hovering over a
transparent undercut create a detailed texture along the length of this
street; the effect is intensified when viewed from an oblique angle from
Hindley Street. The response to the brief was to intertwine the academic
streams of architecture, design and arts in the same buildings, and
exaggerate the shared spaces. The corridors, stairwells and foyers become
meeting places. Several new galleries have been created within the building,
and the planning encourages interplay between budding artists, designers and
architects, between staff and students, and between the schools and the
community.
DETAILS
Location
ADELAIDE, SA
Architect
John Wardle Architects + HASSELL. Architects in Association
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Project Team
Project architect: John Wardle Architects + HASSELL
Project manager: UniSA - Property Unit
Project manager: Barry Phillis & Associates
Structural consultant: Wallbridge & Gilbert
Civil consultant: Wallbridge & Gilbert
Landscape consultant: John Wardle Architects + HASSELL
Interior designer: John Wardle Architects + HASSELL
Acoustic consultant: Vipac
Services consultant: Bestec
Quantity consultant: Rider Hunt
Programming consultant: Thinc Projects
Builder: Built Environs
Photographer: Sam Noonan
Photographer: Trevor Mein
Building surveyor: Katnich Dodd
Entered 2006