Designed by Blight Rayner Architecture, this small project is a refurbishment of a floor in the west wing of The University of Queensland’s innocuously named General Purpose South Building at their St Lucia Campus in Brisbane.
The project revitalises an area that was a labyrinth of closed teaching spaces and offices for the University’s Cyber Security Hub in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
While the security-focused nature of the Hub necessitates visual and acoustic privacy, the refurbishment maximises natural light penetration through diaphanous screens and reflective surfaces.
The spaces are linked by a spine with a deep blue ceiling that exposes services and imparts legibility to the organisation.
The project is the first stage – a trial in effect – of a now proposed overall refurbishment of the building which has direct views out over the campus’s renowned lakes.
This will enable the Blight Rayner Architecture design team to explore ways to open up a relatively insular architecture to the lakes, create a new arrival experience, and form a series of communities through internal and external spatial arrangements.
Project Details
Project Size – 650 m2
Completion Date – 2021
Project Team
Architecture
Blight Rayner Architecture was formed in Brisbane by Jayson Blight and Michael Rayner, both former principal directors of a renowned national practice.
The firm’s purpose is to run a different kind of practice, one where the Directors are continuously ‘hands-on’ in design and production, rather than managers and overseers of an extensive range of projects.
Photography
Christopher Frederick Jones
Christopher is a highly-regarded architectural photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.
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