Interim Design - Week Four

This is the interim Deakin Design Institute building that I proposed, with the entire groups consultation imput and thoughts. The school of multimedia building was split into two parts for three simple reasons.

1. Access to the central courtyard.
2. Natural Lighting.
3. Ventilation.

This was the main justification of the mulitmedia school's split, but it was also to create a lane that would link these two new parts of the proposed school as one. This proposed new lane runs directly off "The Bender" and compliments what is to become known as "Alfreds Avenue." Walking through the lane entices ones curiosity as they suddenly appear in a little central space that is open for all students and guests. The lane called Alf's Ave only because they rhyme, is dedicated to Australia's second Prime Minister, of which the university was named in honor of. In this central space there is a statue on a pedistool of the PM and it gives the space an important vocal point while simultaneously linking history and meaning which I find missing from some other institutions I have visited in the past.

This central square in Alf's Ave is the area that warmly invites people for a coffee or a place to meet outside while literally being still in the building. The perimeter of the space onen up via double glazed BI-FOLD doors that virtually link the ground floor of the two buildings with an out door space as one. Versatillity meets Practicallity.

The floor plans above consist of five levels that are of the proposed south buiding that are to be directly bridged over the lane to the proposed north building. There is a lower level that consists of a plant room, services room, storage room, a server room and a bike storage room that is linked to adjoining showers, allowing and promoting the use of bicycles.

The next level is the bender level. This consists of a cinema, bar, auditorium, two lecturer rooms and open gallery space for the presentation of students work. Bi-fold doors surround the perimeter of the gallery space and square surrounding the statue in Alf's Ave with the possibility of the the north building opening up like I have proposed to maximise gallery space for larger exhibitions.

On the first level is a rather large open studio space with private work spaces and lecturer/computer labs. The studio space opens up to a ramp that leads down to the bender level for outdoor presentations and informal lecturing, viewing towards a large screen integrated on the facade of the building where their is currently a gymnasium. this ramp is almost as long as it is wide, accounting for more than the school of multimedia, but also similtaneously welcoming students from the other three schoos or faculties.

The second level maintains a space dedicated to staff offices adjoining the prefessorial suite with great respect to view and natural lighting, as three light wells/voids were integrated to this design. While the final level becomes the roof top. A semi-shelterd space that allows for more outdoor study and social events overlooking the entire site of the DDI proposed redevelopment.

This is a school that I am eager to customise together with the groups imput that should become one fully integrated faculty that is to enhance the learning and atmosphere of a multimedia design school.