Wurundjeri
Victorian
The Monash College project is a radical interior refurbishment of 750 Collins Street in the Docklands, transforming and repurposing a major ‘corporate campus’ typology into a new education campus. The project involves over 40,000m2 of refurbished space to create a complex educational brief for a ‘vertical village’ and is designed as a collaboration between Lyons, NMBW, Studiobird, Gilby Brewin, and Glas Urban.
The primary concept within the interiors is a new central street anchored at either end by new wintergardens, linking together multiple vertical circulation systems. A further ‘figure eight’ circulation loop is created for intuitive wayfinding, and to minimise dead ends within the large floor plates. This creates a single unifying campus concept supporting a rich and complex design concept made through each practice designing to different parts of the brief.
The overall education interior is experienced as a singular ‘campus village’ for the College’s distinctive student cohort.
Monash College (wholly owned by Monash University) offers a pathway for students wishing to enter university. Previously split over four locations, there was an aspiration to bring together staff and students to a central campus, and saw this opportunity at 750 Collins Street, Docklands.
Working closely with the design team led by Lyons, a collaborative workshopping process has resulted in an advanced learning and teaching building with leading pedagogical and social activity spaces for staff and students. The vibrant, student-focused campus works successfully as an opportunity for learning and social engagement in the heart of the city.
Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Studiobird, Glas Urban, Gilby + Brewin, Design Architect
Altitude Facade Access Consulting, Facade Access Consultant
Arup, Acoustic Consultant
Arup, Services Consultant
DCWC, Project Manager
Glas Urban, Landscape Consultant
McKenzie Group, Building Surveyor
Meinhardt-Bonacci, Facade Engineer
Meinhardt-Bonacci, Structural Engineer
NDY, AV Consultant
Slattery, Quantity Surveyor
Studio Semaphore, Signage Consultant
Tract Consultants, Town Planner
Umow Lai & Associates, Fire Engineer
WSP, Vertical Transportation Consultant