New School of Medicine, UWS
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Campbelltown Campus
Narellan Road
Sydney
Campbelltown NSW
Australia
coordinates:
-34.0695305 150.7934113
Building names(s): New School of Medicine, UWS
Architect/Designer: Lyons
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Completion date: 2008
Function: academic
getting there:Travelling by car:
From Sydney CBD, take the M5 South West Motorway and exit at Narellan Road. Follow the signs to Campbelltown.
From the North West, take the Westlink M7 motor way and follow the signs to Campbelltown. As the M7 runs into the M5 when travelling towards Campbelltown, the same exit can be used (Narellan Road).
The entrance to the campus is off Narellan Road. On-campus parking is available, and a valid parking permit must be displayed at all times.
Public transport:
Train: Macarthur train station [Southern Highlands, Airport and East Hills lines] – then approximately a 10 minute walk heading north. There is direct access onto Goldsmith Ave from the pedestrian walkway above Macarthur train station.
Bus: to Narellan Road: routes 890, 891 and 895 (Campbelltown – Narellan) route 892 (Campbelltown – Narellan Vale)
Last update: 26 April, 2011 | Suggested By LT
This $AUD50m building accommodates a new foundation medical school at The University of Western Sydney. As an integrated medical teaching and research environment it supports the contemporary educational principles of student centered learning and collaborative interdisciplinary research.
The building contributes to a grass roots local indigenous health service culture. Its other objective is to create an iconic gateway for the Campus attracting the best students and the best postgraduate research and teaching staff – a proud institutional addition to the Western suburbs.
In support of the client’s educational objectives, the key idea for the building was the creation of an iconic socio-educational external hub space. The space is covered with a tree like canopy and provides a focal point for the three different programmes (teaching laboratories, office accommodation and research laboratories) to come together to discuss medicine. Problem based learning pods clad in recycled timber provide home room identity for the students.
The learning spaces are designed as ‘enabling’ spaces, set up to enable students to move between self-directed learning, and with academic staff in a mentoring role. These spaces include large collaborative learning areas, virtual laboratories and spaces specifically focused on team learning activities.
All spaces within the complex are interconnected vertically with generous open stairs so that sharing between staff and students is optimised. Laboratories are designed on a generic platform allowing for changing research needs.
The solid East and West walls of the building are rendered in precast ‘brick’ panels, coloured to match the campus palette, in contrast to the transparent north and south facades.
The ‘gateway’ administration module is elevated off the ground to create a spacious colonnade at the building entry, encouraging access through to the hub spaces for people entering the campus.