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Established 2013
This award is named after William Edmund
Kemp who in 1880 was appointed to the
newly created position of Architect for
Public Schools in NSW. Many of the high
quality schools and technical colleges he
designed across the state are still in use
today. The award is given for excellence in
the design of educational facilities, including
those for preschool, primary, secondary or
tertiary education and research.
UTS Science Faculty, Building
7 is an inventive take on a
masterplan envelope that
protects and preserves
winter sunlight onto Alumni
Green - a new collegiate
heart for the campus. The
building’s billowing external
form, despite all that it gives,
gets more back from this
generous response to the
site’s restrictions, while inside,
the various research, teaching
and office spaces are linked
by a spatially rich circulation
system.
A deliberate dispersal of
functions at ground level
spreads activity across the
long site. Teaching spaces look
out to Thomas Street, while
the colonnade connecting
the main lounge and café
spaces provides a generous
sheltered edge to Alumni
Green. Bespoke light fittings,
inventive in their reference
to the building’s function,
add lightness and humour to
the main circulation routes,
their early-industrial aesthetic
recalling the works of Le
Corbusier.
To meet the brief within
the envelope, the building
incorporates much of its
program underground.
Manipulated daylight
penetrates deep into the
building, gently washing these
subterranean spaces through
colourful shafts and slots,
often lined with reflective tiles.
The drama and excitement of
the main teaching laboratory
with up to 300 students
engaged with complex and
high level demonstrative
experiments is unequalled;
its clear functionality not
overpowering its carefully
modulated volume and light.
Crafted by human hand and
mind, this is a humanist and
tactile building; of surfaces
you touch, hug or sit upon;
of spaces which foster
the individual within the
larger community; and of
experiences that seamlessly
entwine the interior
experience through space,
material, furniture and lighting.
PROJECT TEAM
Practice Team:
Neil Durbach
Design Director
Camilla Block
Design Director
David Jaggers
Design Director
Stefan Heim
Practice Director
Abbie Galvin
Principal
Paul Pannell
Practice Director
Erin Field
Deborah Hodge
Sarah Kirkham
Xiaoxiao Cai
Alex Holman
Elena Bonanni
Kristin Neise
Erika Halim
Manny Prouzos
Ian James
Michael Janeke
Benjamin Chew
Laura Robinson
Valentine Steisel
Consultant Team:
Surface Design &
Kingston Building
Group
Facade Consultant
Arup
Fire Consultant
Steensen Varming
Greenstar & ESD
JBA Urban Planning
Planner
Steve Watson &
Partners
PCA & BCA
Morris Goding
Accessibility
Consulting
Accessibility
Consultant
Lymesmith
Polychromy
Colour Consultant
Taylor Thomson
Whiting
Structural
Consultant
Steensen Varming
Electrical Consultant
Steensen Varming
Mechanical
Consultant
Arup
Hydraulic
Consultant
Aspect Studios
Landscape
Consultant
Steensen Varming
Lighting Consultant
Davis Langdon/
Aecom
Cost Consultant
Construction Team:
Richard Crookes
Constructions
Builder
Savills Project
Management
Project Manager
Level 6 Plan (Typical)
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