A new sustainable social learning model has emerged on the sunny East Coast of Australia. The Peter Coaldrake Education Center, designed by Henning Larsen and Wilson Architects for Queensland University of Technology, draws inspiration from surrounding campus activities and injects new vitality into traditional academic models.
This 11000 square meter 6-story building features a layered layout of classrooms, research, and office facilities, surrounded by a rising ventilated atrium. The terraced landscape atrium connects the university library and main roads, making the education center the social center of the campus. Building the academic space on the basis of active social activities, it creates an unforgettable, sustainable, and interconnected facility, Provide new teaching and learning opportunities in an actively collaborative environment.
Intelligent technology defines the social and academic spaces of buildings, while also shaping the basic design of buildings. The entire building is composed of glass curtain walls. In addition to achieving sufficient lighting effects indoors, the building’s automatic shading, overlapping aluminum panels, and sloping external louvers help reduce solar radiation entering the interior and reduce overall dependence on energy intensive climate control systems.
The glass curtain wall and self-developed complete sunshade aluminum panel system provided by ALTOP are expected to reduce solar radiation heat by 40%, achieving sustainable goals, and have been awarded a green star rating of 5 by the Australian Green Building Council.
The Peter Coaldrake Education Center at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) was successfully completed and was named Brisbane’s “Architecture of the Year”. It also won the Jennifer Taylor Award in the education category and the state awards in the sustainable development and interior design categories.
The completion of the Peter Coaldrake Education Center at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) not only enhances students’ learning experience, but also creates a new educational concept that brings infinite possibilities to the University of Queensland.
ALTOP先后合作了昆士兰大学、昆士兰科技大学,均贴合设计,使项目展现出完美效果,获得了总包的高度赞誉,ALTOP将会继续秉承初心,为更多建筑助力,创造出更多赋予特殊意义的绿色建筑!
Post time: Jul-26-2023