collaborative learning center, Jono, Luven, Antry

The Melbourne Collaborative Learning Centre provides architectural learning spaces that foster spontaneous programmatic events, enhancing interdisciplinary research.
through observation and analysis of existing interaction between workers across the site, the process of design focused on overlapping flexible programmatic elements attached to existing and proposed circulation paths, providing unexpected opportunities for collaboration.

The project emerges from diagrammatic influences of human and environmental factors such as WIND, PEOPLE FLOWS and PROGRAMMATIC FLEXIBILITY. these factors were then applied to our material system through diagrams, allowing an array of varying porosity, sectional spaces and directionality. this taxonomy of forms was then distributed along directions of travel.

By closing the loop between existing conditions, a curriculum focused around ecology’s philosophical values and types of learning spaces, an architecture is created that fosters a learning environment while teaching the same values it imbues.