Located in the centre of the historic core of the University’s Parkville campus, the Melbourne School of Design has been created as a building in the round in response to surrounding heritage buildings, landscapes, and key campus streetscapes.
Each elevation and its associated programmatic adjacencies respond to the specifics of their context through the creation of urban spaces that emphasise both occupation, interaction, and pedestrian movements, responding to historic bookends to the east and west of the site and the opening up of activities at the building perimeter. A transparent ground plane opens up the building to passers-by and encourages further engagement between the building and the broader campus community.