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Project Overview
The Learning and Teaching Building (LTB) for Monash University is the new gateway to the Clayton campus from Wellington Road.
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Project Context
LTB is a multi-faculty learning facility that serves a significant proportion of the student teaching load. Innovative formal learning and teaching spaces are complemented by informal learning hubs that deliver a variety of study settings.
Landscape, and its change over time, has been a strong theme for the site of the Clayton campus - starting with indigenous bushland, then colonial farmland, suburban subdivision and finally a university campus.
The LTB demonstrates a shift away from the modernist stand-alone tower instead incorporating a horizontal field of spaces set within a broad, low rise building.
Project Innovation
The building has 68 formal learning spaces across four floors; these space layouts empower a range of new learning styles – including the dynamic ‘learning in the round’ space, interactive lecture spaces using cutting-edge technology that enables peer presentation and maximises participation, specialised computer and project -based learning, and round table and discursive styles specifically configured to encourage group collaboration. Many space designs can be self-configured by students for group and collaboration work.
The new Learning and Teaching Building has a variety of learning spaces that are interactive; inviting students to work collaboratively while enabling the academic to engage with each student as individuals and as a class.
The learning spaces empower a range of new learning styles – including the dynamic ‘learning in the round’ space and interactive lectures using cutting edge technology that enables peer presentation, maximises participation and student collaboration.
Social and Community-Oriented Design - Space
Social and community-oriented design applies a design methodology and intervention to tighten the social fabric that holds us together. Addressing issues of social inequality, such as poverty or social isolation, social design is the pathway to a more just and sustainable society. Community-oriented design is a human-centered and participatory design practice that emphasises the betterment of local communities through the improvement of public facilities, equipment, identity and experience.
The space category celebrates the design process and outcomes of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. It includes architecture, interior design and landscape design as well as set display and exhibition design.
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