ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
BOND UNIVERSITY GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
Located on the campus designed in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki, the new
Soheil Abedian school of Architecture forms part of the Faculty of Architecture and Sustainable Design. Winning the competition in January 2011, CRAB was awarded the contract and the building is on Fast Track.

Again, Cook and Robotham’s long experience as teachers of architecture and their regular working knowledge of several including the Bartlett, AA, Harvard, SCI-ARC, Columbia, Frankfurt and UCLA enables them to incorporate a response to many anecdotal criteria as well as constructional and climatic objectives.

The building is a long, airy loft on two to three levels articulated y a series of ‘scoops’ : defining structure-enclosures that can be used for casual meetings and ‘crit’ sessions. These line the central street that gently rises up the hilltop site. Advantage is taken of the east-west axis to clarify a very climate-controlled development of the north and south skins of the building.
Budget : A$ 14,000,000 Dimension : 2,500 m2

GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT : ADCO, GOLD COAST
STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS : ARUP, BRISBANE