{"id":32722,"date":"2020-12-08T01:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/projects\/deakin-law-school-building\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:04:35","slug":"deakin-law-school-building","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/projects\/deakin-law-school-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering services for the Deakin Law School Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"aecom-custom-block block-intro-text\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 40px\">\n    <p class=\"editor-emphasized\">\n        We provided structural, civil, fa\u00e7ades, and acoustic engineering services towards the construction of a new Deakin Law School Building, which integrates technology to enhance student activity and collaboration in an area that creatively combines formal and informal spaces within a flexible floor configuration.    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new Deakin Law School Building is an exciting and important addition to Deakin University\u2019s Burwood campus. With a construction value of approximately $110 million, the new building offers an additional 20,000 m\u00b2 of flexible spaces over nine levels and a basement carpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We provided structural, civil, and fa\u00e7ades engineering services, as well as acoustic consultancy for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Completed in mid-2020, the project provides around 6000 m\u00b2 of new landscaping providing a connection throughout the campus, access to Morgan\u2019s Walk, and a Zen garden with a reflection pond. A new architecturally designed pedestrian bridge provides connection from the new building and landscaping to the existing MA carpark across Uganda St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Delivering an innovative vision<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To realise the objective of developing adaptable and flexible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/without-limits\/article\/new-space-age\/\">learning spaces<\/a>, a post-tensioned, banded slab system was adopted to locate the primary vertical structure at the fa\u00e7ades and central corridor zones. This resulted in column-free teaching and learning spaces throughout the building with up to 14 m clear spans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another key feature of the structural solution is the column-free informal learning and atrium area. A prominent architectural feature of the building, the four-level void within the atrium houses a feature stair with complex irregular geometry that changes at each level. We worked closely with Woods Bagot to develop the stair form without any intermediate supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, a long-span composite steel structural system was adopted to form the feature \u2018pop out\u2019 premium learning spaces that \u201chang\u201d off the south side of the building. The curved shape of the PLS, which changes at each of its six levels, was a key challenge addressed by our structural and fa\u00e7ade teams. The solution achieves column-free spaces with the double curvature free-form fa\u00e7ade geometry, while offering a buildable solution for both the structure and the zinc clad fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forming a key architectural feature of the building, all the building cores have been designed and constructed using sculptural off-form precast panels. With the structural walls being curved, our team provided a structural solution sympathetic to the architectural intent while maintaining a constructability focused solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":32724,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[138],"class_list":["post-32722","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-melbourne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/32722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/32722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32723,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/32722\/revisions\/32723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32722"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=32722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}