WINNING PROPOSAL
- Denton Corker Marshall
Angled, semi-transparent “binary screens” envelope the winning proposal and provide the building with a dramatic urban presence. These screens are made of aluminium sheets perforated with binary code, the series of “1s” and “0s” that underpins computer programming language.
Reflecting the final tenant of the building, the binary code reads ‘University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.’
The architect’s design concept positions the new building as a single, sculptural object in the city. “Gills” creased into the aluminium plates of the binary screen punctuate the façade and symbolically reinforce the building as a living, breathing structure. A crevasse-like pedestrian atrium runs through the heart of the building, both horizontally and vertically. It will connect the local neighbourhood to the UTS education precinct.
All teaching, learning, research and social spaces are clustered around this atrium, providing strong access to daylight and fresh air for staff, students and visitors. The semi-transparent nature of the binary screens also offers visual connections between internal activities and the public domain.
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ARCHITECT PROFILE
A studio-based practice that has grown internationally, Denton Corker Marshall’s body of work constantly explores the fusing of art, architecture and tectonics into a distinctive architectural language.
Denton Corker Marshall has won numerous commissions to design buildings of international significance, such as the Stonehenge Visitor Centre and Interpretive Museum and the Manchester Civil Justice Centre in the UK, the Australian Embassies in Beijing and Tokyo and The Melbourne Museum.
The practice began in Melbourne in 1972 and is run by founding directors John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall, together with Stephen Quinlan in London, Budiman Hendropurnomo in Jakarta and Adrian FitzGerald in Melbourne.
