The new Advanced Manufacturing Centre (AMC), located on the university’s Hawthorn Campus, will be conceived as a centre of excellence in manufacturing innovation and collaborative learning that embraces state of the art design.
The bold design, which will be a landmark for the university, comprises a six-storey block floating above a retained Victorian façade at street level. Sculpted vertical fins, inspired by engine turbine blades, are modelled to achieve optimum solar shading. This also helps in achieving transparency and an ethereal three-dimensional shape to the outer skin of the building.
The Swinburne University seeks to build a multi-level building. The Advanced Manufacturing Centre Development (AMC) will provide the university with the opportunity to integrate specialist research space in collaboration with industry partners, provide general teaching spaces and shared communal areas.
Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) is an engineering, sciences and project delivery firm with offices across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
Wilkinson Eyre Architects is a London-based architectural practice, with a portfolio of national and international award-winning projects.
