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Construction is now underway on La Trobe University’s $100 million student accommodation project at its Melbourne campus in Bundoora.
It is the largest investment for a single project in the university’s history.
The project is part of a $5 billion plan to transform its Bundoora campus into a University City of the Future.
JCB Architects have designed the sustainable and environmentally-conscious spaces, with construction by Multiplex.
Providing an additional 624 beds, the accommodation will be delivered in two new buildings that will utilise mass timber construction to be the largest project of its kind in Victoria.
The accommodation will comprise a range of apartments and common amenities spaces, as well as landscaping connecting the two buildings.
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La Trobe’s Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar said the project will greatly enhance the experience of students living on campus.
“Our exceptional new accommodation will enable more of our students to live on campus, close to where they are studying,” Dewar said.
Graham Burrows, Director at JCB Architects, said the company was thrilled to be part of such an exciting and creative project.
“The design of the new buildings is very much inspired by the extraordinary landscape in which they sit,” Burrows said.
“As the largest mass timber project in Victoria, the buildings will not only offer huge environmental benefits, but they will also provide calm and beautiful spaces in and around which both resident students and the wider La Trobe community can interact.”
Multiplex Regional Director Ross Snowball said this is an innovative and ambitious project which Multiplex is also pleased to be part of.
“We are particularly passionate about emerging design technologies which respond to environmental and sustainability needs, and we love working with universities – so this project perfectly marries the two and I’m really looking forward to seeing the outcome next year,” Snowball said.
Dewar said the accommodation development project would be a major boost to the local economy, with construction supporting more than 500 direct and indirect jobs.
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La Trobe University starts $100 million student accommodation project at Bundoora campus

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Earlier this week, La Trobe University and the Victorian State Government announced a $2 million scoping and feasibility study and the official launch of the 'University City of the Future' at La Trobe's Bundoora Campus. This will stimulate and accelerate the transformation of the 235-hectare campus into a multi-precinct, City of the Future, with the potential to deliver $5bn in investment, 20,000+ new jobs and $3.5 billion in Gross Regional Product (GRP) over the next decade.

The University City of the Future has been described as a game changer with the campus expected to become "the engine room for jobs and economic development" in Melbourne’s north. The partnership supports the Andrews' Government's recent election commitment to build the <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/victorian-government-unveils-suburban-rail-loop-election-proposal">Suburban Rail Link</a>, including a new La Trobe Station at the University’s Bundoora campus.

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<figcaption>Artist's impression of how the $5bn University. Image: La Trobe University</figcaption></figure>The announcement of the scoping and feasibility study will help prioritise activity to attract private investment into seven distinct development sub-precincts:

<ul>
<li>A world-class research and innovation Precinct, leveraging La Trobe’s research and innovation strengths in Agriculture, Food and Fibre, Health and Wellbeing and Digital Technologies and Cybersecurity;</li>
	<li>Delivering an expanded private hospital as the first stage of a major new Health and Wellbeing Hub, which will include aged care, childcare and super-clinic facilities;</li>
	<li>Delivering first-class education facilities for more than 40,000 university students;</li>
	<li>Providing new residential accommodation for 12,000 residents, including staff and students (the equivalent of adding a city approximately the size of two Castlemaines);</li>
	<li>Developing a new city centre with a suitable mix of commercial, retail and cultural facilities;</li>
	<li>Finalising the third stage of La Trobe’s $150 million Sports Park, which uniquely combines elite sport and community participation (10,000 community visitors each weekend) with sector-leading research and teaching; and  maintaining and improving access the University’s eco-corridor for all to enjoy.</li>
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<figcaption>Artist's impression of the Research and Innovation Precinct. Image: La Trobe University</figcaption></figure>The University City of the Future announcement follows Planning Minister Richard Wynne's endorsement of the planning amendment for the Health and Wellbeing Hub and the Research and Innovation Precinct.

This provides planning certainty for developers of the two precincts and enables the projects to commence as soon as possible. Once fully completed, the hub will include a new private hospital, aged care, childcare and super clinic facilities. Healthscope was recently appointed as the preferred private hospital operator of the Health and Wellbeing Hub.

The hub will be located on a 3.55-hectare parcel of University-owned land facing Plenty Road, at the northern entrance to the Bundoora campus. The site is only 3 kilometres from the Ring Road and 15 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD.

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<figcaption>Artist's impression of the Health and Wellbeing Hub. Image: La Trobe University</figcaption></figure><h2>What they say...</h2>

<blockquote>
The University City of the Future is a gamechanger for Melbourne’s north and has the potential to create 20,000 jobs and drive $5 billion in investment over the next ten years.

Victoria has some of the best universities in the world – this development will help to cement that reputation and drive economic growth for our northern suburbs.

- Ben Carroll, Minister for Industry and Employment
</blockquote>

 

<blockquote>
This funding partnership is warmly welcomed. The official launch of the City of the Future signals a significant new step forward with Government to transform our Bundoora campus into a thriving University City of the Future, which will act as a catalyst for economic growth, innovation and jobs creation – particularly in the vital areas of health and well-being, digital and cyber innovation, and agriculture, food and fibre.

We are turning our campus ‘inside out’, welcoming our local communities to new and dynamic spaces, where community, industry, students and staff will work, live and learn.

The proposed new rail link and La Trobe station will be fantastic for students and staff at La Trobe, and for the communities and industries that surround our campus.

- Professor John Dewar, La Trobe Vice-Chancellor
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Laurence Dragomir

La Trobe University's $5 billion University City of the Future receives funding

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Initially dubbed the La Trobe Melbourne Building Project, the now Sylvia Walton Building at La Trobe University's Bundoora campus stands as a beacon for eclectic design and cutting edge student facilities. Having been completed early in the year, the complex is named after former Chancellor of La Trobe University, Dr Sylvia Walton AO.

Construction commenced during 2012 and upon completion the facility opened its doors during April, providing a hub for prospective international and domestic students to expedite their tertiary studies. According to La Trobe University "The exciting new 7,500 square metre building has been designed by Lyons Architects and includes a range of teaching, collaborative, administrative and office spaces which will house both La Trobe Melbourne and also La Trobe International."

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<figcaption>Sylvia Walton Building</figcaption></figure><h2>Project highlights</h2>

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<li>6 levels with 7,500 sq.m of available space</li>
	<li>Project budget of $45 million, internally funded and completed under budget</li>
	<li>Teaching, collaborative, break out spaces, administrative and office space included</li>
	<li>Non-potable water drawn from adjoining moat, roof-harvesting system included</li>
	<li>Targeted 5 Star Green Star rating</li>
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<h2>Lyons to a T</h2>

The design is quintessential Lyons; edgy, challenging, uncomfortable and altogether unusual! The architecture firm employed 200 precast panels to constitute an almost herringbone facade pattern, punctuated by large, irregularly shaped ans sized glazed voids.

Avoiding a darker palette typical of many contemporary Melbourne edifices, Sylvia Walton Building's light precast facade is accentuated by Sandune, Wattle, Terracotta and Cinnamon aluminium trim. Whilst discerning itself with an 'outrageous' facade relative to its dated neighbouring buildings, the use of similar colours still provides a sympathetic interface of sorts with the existing cream brick Education and Humanities wings. This is further aided by a new landscaped area tying Sylvia Walton Building in with its neighbours.

<blockquote>
The firm designs projects which are responsive to and expressive of a contemporary experience of local and global culture - a world of ideas, new media, technologies and rapidly changing urbanism. Lyons work is committed to and interested in the history and culture of ideas and how ideas can be used to create meaningful contemporary architecture.
<cite><a href="http://www.lyonsarch.com.au/what-we-do/">Lyons: What We Do</a></cite>
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Take from that what you will but I for one believe Lyons have indeed created meaningful contemporary architecture via the Sylvia Walton Building.

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<figcaption>The La Trobe University Institute for Molecular Science at dusk. Images © Lyons</figcaption></figure><h2>The La Trobe - Lyons collaboration</h2>

Not for the first time I mention the Lyons legacy; the firm has produced a rich vein of unique and intriguing projects in recent years that command attention. Sylvia Walton Building is not the only example of Lyons work at La Trobe University's Bundoora campus.

Completed late summer, the La Trobe University Institute for Molecular Science complex seen above is another stand out Lyons creation. Disciplines such as biochemistry, chemistry and genetics collaborate with one another and guide students within the six level complex that concerns itself with three areas - research, teaching and learning.

Both are highly impressive seen in the flesh, but for now enjoy the set of images below highlighting La Trobe University's newest addition, Sylvia Walton Building.

<h2>Project team</h2>

<ul>
<li>Briefing Architect: Spowers</li>
	<li>Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership</li>
	<li>Architect: Lyons</li>
	<li>Service &amp; ESD: Norman Disney Young</li>
	<li>Structural &amp; Civil: Bonacci</li>
	<li>Landscaping: Outlines</li>
	<li>Hydraulics: C.J. Arms</li>
	<li>Building Surveyor: PLP Building Surveyors &amp; Consultants</li>
	<li>Acoustics: AECOM</li>
	<li>Contractor: Kane Constructions</li>
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