University of Melbourne New Student Precinct
The New Student Precinct has transformed the on-campus student experience at the University of Melbourne by delivering a collection of sophisticated indoor and outdoor spaces that attend to the needs of a diverse student body.
Encompassing nine buildings, the precinct has brought together the University’s student unions, academic services, and the Institute for Indigenous Development, Murrup Barak for the first time; this has significantly reshaped and revitalised the landscape and built environment of the site.
By designing in relation to the existing heritage buildings and landscapes that flank the precinct, the history of the university is sharpened and brought into focus.
By designing in relation to the existing heritage buildings and landscapes that flank the precinct, the history of the university is sharpened and brought into focus.
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- TRADITIONAL OWNERS & ONGOING CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country
- Client University of Melbourne
- Location Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Year 2017–2022
The result is a vibrant centre of activity that co-locates student services and activities closer to the new heart of the campus, and to primary transport links.
ASPECT Studios led the design of the public realm and landscape with GLAS Urban landscape architects and in collaboration with the architectural team, university stakeholders and its First Nations community.
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- Team Lyons, Koning Eizenberg Architects, Breathe Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Glas Urban, Architects EAT
- Photography Peter Bennetts
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AWARDS
2023 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
2023 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – National Award for Heritage Architecture
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards – Victorian Architecture Medal
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards – Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards – Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards – Heritage Architecture Award for Creative Adaptation
2023 Good Design Awards Australia Gold Winner Accolade – Architectural Design
2024 AILA Landscape Architecture Awards – Civic Architecture
