Indesign #77
Ideas
Make way for the alphas: Early learning spaces for digital natives
The ‘alpha generation’ has never known a world without smartphones. How do we design early learning environments to nurture these digital natives on their own, new-age terms?
Project
Dramatic Statement: John Wardle Architects’ Caulfield Library, Monash university
A Brutalist 1970s library building provides the bones for a Renaissance-like redevelopment at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. The outcome is a dynamic hub that serves a complexity of 21st-century needs. “It was about opening the library up to the central village green of the campus and bringing light into the building,” says John Wardle Architects’ Jasmin Williamson.
Project
When Kennedy Nolan does a co-working space: 25 King Collective
Could your office headquarters double as a collective workspace? When Excelon Group acquired an ageing office space they had big ideas, and a very loose brief. Kennedy Nolan overcame distinctive heritage features (that staircase!) to vividly imbue the historic 19th-century building with modern functionality.
People
Navigating practice: Branch Studio Architects
In just seven years, Branch Studio Architects has established a strong and resonant design ethos that has captured the loyalty of education and residential clients alike. But running a practice demands agility and foresight, as Branch has discovered first-hand.
Project
Creating A Village Square: Green Square Library
Tipped to become Australia’s most densely populated precinct, Sydney’s Green Square required a truly memorable gesture for its community hub. The Library and Plaza redefines the meaning of architectural literacy with its incredibly visual and graphic structures. And it also happened to snag INDE Gold in The Learning Space category, partnered with Living Edge.
Project
Colourful brise-soleil: Henning Larsen’s French International School of Hong Kong
Rather than relegating learning to only classrooms, Henning Larsen’s Hong Kong studio has designed the entire French International School of Hong Kong as a playground for exploration, education and eco-friendliness.
Project
Creating a village square: Green Square Library
Tipped to become Australia’s most densely populated precinct, Sydney’s Green Square required a truly memorable gesture for its community hub. The Library and Plaza redefines the meaning of architectural literacy with its incredibly visual and graphic structures. And it also happened to snag INDE Gold in The Learning Space category, partnered with Living Edge.
Ideas
Rising expectations: The rise of vertical schools
Vertical education. It’s a fact, but is it also a fad? Paul McGillick looks at how education is reaching for the skies.
Ideas
Knowledge capital: Workplaces for creativity and thinking
Idea generation, creativity and mental stamina: this is the currency of the modern-day knowledge worker. What sort of environment is required for the people who innovate through ideation?
Project
Hidden treasure: Cadogan Song School by Palassis Architects
Transforming a crypt-like space into a vaulted vessel of sound, Palassis Architects re-creates the exultant musical qualities of a cathedral in Perth’s oldest architectural precinct.
People
Joyce Wang: Great Expectations
Since founding her practice in 2011 Joyce Wang has made an international name for herself. She’s a jet-setting mother of three, but she is not interested in world design domination. Rather, her focus is on upending the status quo.
People
Great expectations: Joyce Wang
Since founding her practice in 2011 Joyce Wang has carved out an international name for herself, establishing studios in Hong Kong and London. She’s a jet-setting mother-of-three, but she is not interested in world design domination, rather her focus is on upending the status quo.
Ideas
Object-based learning and exhibition design with Jake Barton, Local Projects
Principal and founder of New York-based Local Projects speaks to Leanne Amodeo about creating memorable interactive exhibition experiences.
Project
Innovation in education at Penrith Public School
Students at the newly-upgraded Penrith Public School, Sydney now have the opportunity to be part of a multitude of innovative learning environments.
Project
A new era of education at Longyuan School
Architects Zhubo Design-AAO and interior designers H Design were tasked with creating a campus-like school tailored to modern teaching methods in the heart of Shenzhen.
News
It has landed! <em>Indesign</em> #77 – The ‘Knowledge Economy’ issue
The latest issue of Indesign magazine is hitting the streets, and as our education special, #77 will look into the ‘knowledge economy’ and how today’s student-centred learning models have cannoned us into an era of non-traditional learning environments.