UWA School of Indigenous Studies
Property
- The principles behind our structure’s two-way post tensioned floor solution were to accommodate the architectural drivers of:
- Flexibility of column locations.
- Irregular grid spacing and column locations.
- Larger than conventional slab spans.
- Curved floor plate, on all three suspended floors.
The University of Western Australia has constructed a new purpose-built building to house the School of Indigenous Studies at the Crawley campus. The new building also houses the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health to form an Indigenous Knowledge Precinct and Community on campus and a visible Indigenous gateway to the University.
The school is located to the southern side of the ‘Old Pharmacology’ building and aligned with the adjacent Agriculture building and sits to the West of Hackett Drive and the Swan River. The School’s intent is to provide a significant development which is welcoming and engaging for students, staff, visitors and Indigenous elders, whilst acknowledging the cultural heritage of the land.
The University of Western Australia engaged Pritchard Francis to provide civil and structural engineering consultancy services for this project.
The 2,731m2 facility provides 162m2 of office and research space for approximately 20 post-graduate students accommodated alongside the School’s staff, in addition to 952m2 of staff accommodation, offices and meeting facilities for around 78 staff, including three Indigenous elders, and 215m2 of ancillary spaces.
The scope involved civil and structural design, documentation and site administration during construction.