PROJECT
UNIVERSITY OF NSW CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Completed
Sydney
Architecture
Masterplanning
Urban Design
Education
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Client:
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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Location:
Kensington, NSW
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Awards:
2000 Lloyd Rees Award for Outstanding Civic Design
1996 Australia Award for Urban Design, Commendation
1995 Prime Minister’s Urban Design Award UNSW Master Plan
Navigating conflicting interests and a predominantly residential landscape, Jackson Teece collaborated with the UNSW to expand and redefine its Kensington campus.
Following an extensive consultation process with both internal and external stakeholders, Jackson Teece devised a number of strategies to unite the campus, inject life into micro-environments, enable greater development and foster an interactive relationship with local residents.
This exhaustive remedial strategy enhanced the teaching, research, learning, living and recreational environments to overcome the deficiencies of earlier, ad-hoc growth. By removing surface car parking and consolidating existing facilities, enough land was released to achieve 50 percent more floor space on the site and 30 percent more usable open space. This was all we needed to establish the interconnected site that UNSW had envisioned.
"… the result is impressive … (the) strategy offers a model which may be widely applied in existing public spaces which lack coherence and comfort outside of the buildings themselves."
Australian Urban Design Awards Jury
