Monash University Southern Precinct Landscape
The Monash University Southern Precinct Landscape (SPL) knits together landscapes, teaching buildings and transport hubs, with a landscape design that unites First Nations history with the modernist ideas of the Australian landscape that define the rest of the Monash campus.
Students, staff and visitors are welcomed onto the Country of the people of the Kulin Nation by artist Megan Cope’s Weelam Ngalut. This artwork reveals and celebrates the rich cultures of the university, its locale and its students to provide a deeper connection to campus and place.
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- TRADITIONAL OWNERS & ONGOING CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND Bunurong Country
- Client Monash University, Brookfield Multiplex
- Location Clayton, Melbourne, Australia
- Year 2014–2018
ASPECT Studios worked closely with the university to embody its next generation learning space design principles in an exterior setting. The landscape allows the extension of learning from interior spaces to outdoor areas and helps to embed the university’s tutorial and group-work model in a comprehensive way across the entire campus.
A suite of new outdoor learning spaces maximises the potential for engagement, from terraced lecture-style seating suited to structured teaching and learning, through to smaller areas for study groups, intimate deck spaces for casual learning, and flexible café-style seating.
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Planting across the project was carried out with climate change in mind. Tree species were chosen for their climate change resilience qualities, with many species taken from the more arid interior of New South Wales.
- TEAM Collaboration between ASPECT Studios and Urban Initiatives, John Wardle Architects (JWA), Peter Elliot Architecture and Urban Design, Irwin Consult, NDY, Megan Cope (artist), Paul Thompson, Tree Logic, MGS (Masterplan), MUMA, Inala Cooper, Lynette Russell, Rueben Berg, OMA (M-Pavilion), Monash Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC) , Monash Yulendj Indigenous Engagement Unit
- PHOTOGRAPHY Andrew Lloyd, Drew Echberg. Peter Bennets, VUAS
