BOM Training Centre

The Bureau of Meteorology is a revered Australian government agency.

Their Training Centre is a customised facility for the training of Bureau staff and students in Air and Field Observations, Antarctic Field training, and Meteorology.

The language of infrastructure in the landscape (radars, towers and pylons) has been used to mark the entrance and provide shade for outdoors informal learning areas.

This is a key part of the course and culture.

Internally, synoptic chart colours and pressure maps have been used to emphasise spaces outside of the main ‘nave’ corridors.

Bourke and Bouteloup Architects’ design works with the tall existing circulation spaces which are aligned with the points of the compass.

Learning and informal breakout spaces are cut into these circulation spaces to emphasise and activate them.

Teaching and learning spaces have been arranged in layers across the floor plan to improve awareness of the landscape (as a learning tool), encourage student and staff interaction as well as provide privacy and flexibility in use.

Project Details

Project size – 1,300 m2
Project Budget – $1,800,000
Completion date – 2017
Building levels – 1

Project Team

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design

Bourke and Bouteloup Architects

Bourke and Bouteloup Architects practice directors have a collective experience of more than thirty years in the architectural industry spanning a variety of project types.

Michael Bouteloup has worked with some of Melbourne’s well known architectural design practices including Lyons, Architectus, and as a senior associate at Paul Morgan Architects.

Sarah Bourke has also worked at prominent Melbourne practices including Allen Powell and Boschler Architects as well as working for her own practice.

Both directors have taught at RMIT University School of Architecture in Architectural Design, History and Technology.

Bourke and Bouteloup have been practicing together since 2007 on institutional projects.

www.bourke-bouteloup-architects.com.au

Photography

Peter Bennetts

Peter’s work regularly features in the Australian publications Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Belle, Inside, AR, Monument, inside and Vogue.

He is a frequent contributor to Wallpaper*, Frame, Mark, Dwell, Domus, Casabella and other international publications too.

His photography has appeared in numerous books including four monographs and the two volumes of the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture.

Peter’s architectural images have been described as having “a remarkable crystalline stillness” and he is known for his “straight-shooting” style of architectural photography, focusing on the formal, material and atmospheric qualities of a project.

www.peterbennetts.com