Winning Project:

Macquarie University Innovation Hub


Award Finalists:

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE SYDNEY by TZANNES AND LENDLEASE

THE GARDENS MACARTHUR by STRONGBUILD

WODONGA WEST CHILDREN'S CENTRE by NOWARCHITECTURE



Winning Project Credits -

Photographer: Phillip Tondl

Architect: Architectus

Award sponsor:


Project description:


Macquarie University Innovation Hub is an ambitious, well-crafted building enabled by an aspirational Client and a unique collaboration of design professionals. The brief required a prefabricated timber structure to enable future dismantle, relocation and reassembly. Project deadlines necessitated fast-tracked construction which the team achieved through design for manufacture and assembly. The floor consists of timber cassettes concealed beneath a cork access floor, supported by screw piles. Victorian Iron Ash glulam V-columns support 22 Spruce glulam/CLT roof cassettes with typical dimensions of 20.3 x 3.6m and 14.4m internal span. Timber is exposed internally and externally. The prefabricated façade panels are Accoya, LVL, glass and Birch ply installed into Spruce structure that has been faced externally with Accoya for longevity. Façade panels are manufactured to 2mm tolerance. The design expertise of Architectus, Strongbuild, Taylor Thomson Whitting, Against the Grain Windows and Doors, Arup and Lipman are represented in the completed building.