Inspiring creativity through intricate acoustics
Architect: StudioBird & Lyons
Acoustic Engineer: ARUP
Categories: Commercial, Education
Builder: Multiplex
Account Manager: Dimitri Ekanayake
Photographer: Dianna Snape
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Crafting a custom colour palette to inspire students and enhance their learning opportunities
The project
Monash University’s new 40,000-square-metre vertical campus ‘Monash College’ is a revolutionary educational precinct and exemplar of adaptive reuse. Designed by a consortium of firms including Lyons, NMBW Architecture Studio, StudioBird, Gilby Brewin and Glas Urban, the project transforms an existing 10-storey office building into a thriving student hub and ‘vertical village’.
To create a range of diverse student-centred learning environments each firm undertook a piece of the overall project brief, channeling their unique design strategies into spaces that foster innovation and collaboration.
‘Where the Wonders Dwell’, designed by StudioBird, is an intricate piece of the urban campus, consisting of flexible multi-purpose zones for events, study, student breakout, and informal learning. The design drew inspiration from scientists, astronomy, data, and patterns translating this into a stimulating yet playful outcome that provides students with a place to relax, wonder, and be inspired.
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Custom Cube™ in Falling Water, Simba, Citrus, Fawn, and Rosada installed in a standard Frontier™ Axis ceiling system
Main entrance to the newly refurbished Monash College precinct
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The solution
StudioBird took this as an opportunity to utilise our CubeTM product to create an intricate ceiling design that not only had the necessary acoustic properties but created an integral design feature. Dimitri Ekanayake, Autex Acoustics Account Manager, worked alongside StudioBird to develop a range of custom CubeTM colours that reflected their proposed palette, developing this through multiple iterations and fibre testing to perfect the exact shades.
The chevron geometric shapes are suspended in clusters from the ceiling grid using a standard FrontierTM axis system. These grids allow light to penetrate the entire space as well as creating seamless assembly, installation, and disassembly.
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