Abedian School of Architecture

QLD, Australia

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Abedian School of Architecture

QLD, Australia

Firm

Crab Studio

Type

Educational › University

YEAR

2013

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

Photos

Peter Bennetts (12), ANDY WINGATE (5)

The Abedian School of Architecture is located on a campus designed in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki. It forms part of the Faculty of Architecture and Sustainable Design. CRAB won the competition for the contract in January 2011 and the building was completed in 2013.

Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s long experience as teachers of architecture and their working knowledge of several institutions, including the Bartlett, AA, Harvard, SCI-ARC, Columbia, Frankfurt and UCLA, enabled them to incorporate a response to many anecdotal criteria as well as constructional and climatic objectives.

The building is a long, airy loft on two to three levels articulated by a series of "scoops," defining structure-enclosures that can be used for casual meetings and "crit" sessions. These line the central street that gently rises up the hilltop site. As befits a hot and sometimes sticky climate, the building is airy and folds over upon itself in a series of fan-like roofs and slits. The design takes advantage of the east-west axis to create a climate-controlled building envelope that includes sunshade "eyebrows" on the sun-drenched north side.

The Abedian School of Architecture is CRAB’S second University building. As with their other work, the sociology of small, intimate groups within institutions, the importance of the non-curricula moments, and a "sense of theater" all run through the project, down to their design of its colorful and highly flexible furniture.

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Abedian School of Architecture

QLD, Australia

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QLD, Australia

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