CURTIN CREATIVE QUARTER

Location

Value

Phase

Date

Role

Team Size

Curtin University of Technology, WA

$1.4million 

Design Development 

2012

Graduate Architect 

2

DESCRIPTION

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Speakers’ Corner is the heart of the creative quarter and the hub of arts and communication. The vision proposed was to bring creativity out from behind the walls of the buildings and into the public realm. The concept was developed further through design workshops, collaborative meetings with Curtin and detailed stakeholder engagement, focusing on both the immediate users and the broader ‘tidal’ population. 

The concept plan and associated indicative uses was further scrutinised and refined during the schematic design process.The result is a proposal that seeks continuity through the design language while still clearly identifying clear individual parts within the whole. The connection between the various elements builds upon the current movement paths and orchestrates additional ‘theatre-of-use’ within each part and the connection with the greater whole. 

Opportunities for people to sit, lean, recreate, lie, eat, talk, sleep, learn,    imagine.

• Retention and strengthening of the existing green space

• The provision of a covered link between Buildings 209 and 208

• A large elevated gathering space — The Main Hub. To promote outdoor learning, connectivity and gatherings of various scales

• A designated outdoor classroom that can be used in formal (programmed) and informal (un-programmed) ways

• A food and beverage precinct within the overall site as a designated eating zone

• A large canopy structure linking the main hub with the eating zone, acting as distinct nodal point to the Corso as it changes direction

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WORK UNDERTAKEN

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Sketch Design

Site analysis report, concept plan report, 3D modeling, renders, design input,

material / precedent research and material schedule.

Site analysis report (click here to download)

All drawings and work copyright of Matthews & Scavalli Architects