Peter Cook’s practice to work with Australian Royal Gold Medal winner
Crab Studio has picked up a deal to work up plans for the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University in Queensland, Australia.
The practice formed by Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham will design a building for the university’s campus, which was built by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki in 1987. It will be attached to the university’s school of sustainability.
Crab, which is working with Brit Andresen, the first female winner of the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal back in 2002, said its plans would feature internal concrete “scoops” which catch the bright light of the area but screen out the direct sun. These scoops will hold formal and informal sessions, such as crits, demonstrations and experiments.
A series of two-storey studio barns will lead onto a gently climbing street. Running along the other side of the street are a chain of offices and laboratories.
The design of fluted timber and panel surfaces is aiming for a 6-star green rating. The scheme at Robina, 50 miles south of Brisbane, is budgeted at $AUS12 million (£7.4 million).
See BD Friday 18th February 2011
