The Melbourne School of Design is featured in C3 no.374, an issue that examines five new University buildings that are beginning to form a new building typology.
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Learning in Fluid: A New University Typology
Posted on November 5th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Press
ARTHUR MEETING WITH BEAVER STUDENTS TODAY!
Posted on October 28th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _BEAVER R+D Center, Academic
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MSD BACK ON BUSTLER
Posted on October 28th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Press
We are reminiscing this week about how the JWA/NADAAA partnership won the Melbourne School of Design project — back on Bustler!
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NADAAA DESIGNING R+D CENTER FOR BEAVER COUNTRY DAY
Posted on October 11th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _BEAVER R+D Center, Academic
Beaver Country Day School is Private Secondary School, located in a suburb of Boston that boasts a highly progressive pedagogy, championing collaborative learning, digital and physical making, and sharing with a greater community. The school has commissioned NADAAA to design a new facility that will reflect the ambition of the faculty and students and at the same time allow the space to transform as pedagogies are developed. The project addresses a variety of programmatic requirements as well as re-defining the focus of the campus toward a central courtyard.
The primary programmatic consideration of the design is the transformation of their library, currently located in a two-story 1967 era wing of the campus. The traditional stack areas and reading rooms have been re-branded the Research + Design Center, and the former library is expanding its reach into the rest of the school, providing accessible routes, meeting areas, digital and physical fabrication labs, and a variety of group work areas.
The project consists of 24,000 square feet of addition and 16,500 square feet of renovation. Construction is expected to begin this June.
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BATMAN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
Posted on October 2nd, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Tanderrum Bridge, construction
Major Projects Victoria held a Sod Turning Ceremony earlier this week to mark the start of construction for the Batman Bridge project in Melbourne. The project is our second collaboration with John Wardle Architects and is being created as part of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Masterplan. Read more here.
photo by Major Projects Victoria
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MSD in Metropolis Education Issue
Posted on September 30th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Academic, Press
In this month’s special schools issue of METROPOLIS — Samuel Medina explores the innovative pedagogical approach of the Melbourne School of Design.
“Lined with timber, the space acts as a social condenser for all of the school’s 3,000 students, who, buzzing back and forth beneath the wood-and-glass coffered ceiling, unconsciously enact MSD’s pedagogical model […]
At MSD, the horizontal datum of the studio is transposed vertically and arrayed along the thickened corridors ringing the atrium. These are free work zones that carry studio activity upward, carved-out spaces for spontaneous encounters and rapid-fire collaborative sessions. They are kitted out with ‘hot desks’ that jostle their way over the lip of the floor plate and are held in place by a thin, liminal mesh and shiny folded stainless-steel railings that just say ‘zoom’.”
-Samuel Medina
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THE INDISCRETIONS OF MIES
Posted on September 28th, 2015 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Things We Like
Álvaro Siza Vieira visits the Toronto Dominion Center, guided by Dean Richard Sommer and Professor Robert Levit.
As he points to the cornice line, Siza sees the reflection of the Banking Hall at the base of the building, noting the flat coffered ceiling, and the entasis of beams which enable its flush profile. Commenting on the maximum moment of span, he acknowledged the play of structural forces that invariably put the acclaimed Modernist into a dizzying predicament, forcing him to make a difficult choice at a critical point in his career –between the optimization of steel and the reduction of visual stimulus.
Imagining the hidden indiscretions of Mies, Siza asks his guides: What came first, the entasis, or the flat ceiling?
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MSD wins Aussie Timber Award!
Posted on September 21st, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Awards
The Australian Timber Design Awards jury selected the Melbourne School of Design as the overall winner this year. The MSD was also a finalist in the sustainability category. See the other winners here.
“Judges were effusive in their praise for the manner in which the timber framed and lined building envelope [of the hanging studio] is suspended from two of the overhead LVL beams… The selection and working of the timbers shows exceptional understanding of the material and lends warmth to the complex structural design.”
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MSD Shorlisted for Australian Architecture Award
Posted on September 18th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Awards
The Melbourne School of Design is vying for the Daryl Jackson Award for Educational Architecture as part of the Australian Institute of Architects annual awards program. See all the shortlisted projects here. Winners will be announced on November 5th.
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Toronto: Phase 2 Foundations
Posted on August 13th, 2015 by tberesford
Posted under: _Daniels Building, construction
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