Learning & Teaching Building
The Learning and Teaching Building (LTB) for Monash University is the new gateway to the Clayton campus from Wellington Road.
LTB is a multi-faculty learning facility that serves a significant proportion of the student teaching load. Innovative formal learning and teaching spaces are complemented by informal learning hubs that deliver a variety of study settings.
Landscape, and its change over time, has been a strong theme for the site of the Clayton campus - starting with indigenous bushland, then colonial farmland, suburban subdivision and finally a university campus.
- Traditional Custodians The people of the Kulin Nation
- Client Monash University
- Location Clayton Campus VIC
- Project Duration 2014–2018
- Floor Levels 4
- Floor Area 28,980m2
- Sustainability 5 Star Green Star
- Selected Awards
- National Award for Educational Architecture, AIA National Awards 2018
- National Award for Interior Architecture, AIA National Awards 2018
- Award for Interior Architecture, AIA Vic 2018
- Award for Educational Architecture, AIA Vic 2018
The key to its success is the clarity of purpose that is achieved across a vast number of spaces and unifying each space via strong conceptual ideas.
Jury Citation – Award for Interior Architcture
The project’s rich interior succeeds in its ambition to offer the sense of inhabiting a small city or township within a single building.
Jury Citation – Award for Educational Architecture
Learning spaces are grouped in clusters and supported by informal learning spaces throughout the building like neighbourhoods.
Streets, courtyards, bridges, balconies and stairs are transformed into ravines, clearings, strands, perches, escarpments and amphitheatres that are choreographed to invent a new landscape of the interior.
The LTB demonstrates a shift away from the modernist stand-alone tower instead incorporating a horizontal field of spaces set within a broad, low rise building.
The learning activities of the interior are, in this way, made visible and accessible to the wider campus and community, rather than removed from the ground in a vertical structure.
