SYMPHONY

ACADEMY OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES & PERFORMING ART (ACIPA) & CREATIVE EXCHANGE INSTITUTE (CXI)

CxI will host elements of interdisciplinary practices that reflect UTAS strengths in theatre, art, architecture, design, content creation, digital media, and human-computer interaction. The project seeks to foster links between these disciplines, taking advantage of the NBN (national broadband network) which brings increases in bandwidth, speed and fidelity. Central to the CxI Project is capacity building - it will ‘produce the producers’ of the next generation.
The site, known as Wapping corner, is a potential new key location in the pedestrian routes through the city centre, assisting in creating a link between the CBD and the waterfront. It is at the west end of Collins Street, opposite City Hall and the Hobart Hospital where the city’s rivulet emerges from the underground channel that lies beneath the city.
TYPOLOGY: Institution
PROGRAM: Recital Hall, Black Box Theatre, Music School
LOCATION: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
YEAR: 2014
STATUS: Concept
DESIGN AWARD
Best Graduate Design among cohort 2014, University of Tasmania, School of Architecture + Design
NATIONAL VISITING PANEL (NVP)
The project was selected for Australia NVP exhibition in 2015.

SYMPHONY

ACIPA & CxI project is a Symphony. It accommodates interdisciplinary users and cross programmed brief within a building. As such characteristic of building program, it evokes the design to plays with static and dynamic, and solid and light through the material composition on façade system. The journey from external to internal is narrating different experiences to the public user, same as the music movement in symphony. The undulating sensation is created by existing theatre royal fabric and new built structure and space.

Beyond the boundaries, ACIPA entrance is communicating the intersection point of Campbell and Collin’s street, further elongated the waterfront and Hobart CBD. In detail, the building plinth is an extension of Hedberg garage which constructed with brickwork as public seating area along the street meanwhile the upper façade system uses of perforated kinetic façade which reflects the larger context namely the mountain wellington and waterfront. From ACIPA elevation, the material used can be reinterpreted as a music score, the bass (brickwork) and treble (perforated metal) composed with vertical (column) and horizontal (SHS) structure.

It is an urban focal point, the prolonged seating area and courtyard at sun street corner juxtaposed with kinetic façade further enhance the street quality and walking experience. When the wind blown, the façade is visually and acoustically strengthen the concept of Symphony. Conceptually it plays with properties of material and colour to expose the emotion and identity of ACIPA, Theatre royal and Hedburg garage.

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