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Australia National University, Union Court Urban Design

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Australia National University, Union Court Urban Design
type
Education and Industrial Campus
location
Australia/New Zealand
client
Australian National University
year
2018
site area
17
sq km.
HA.
Residential area
2,200
sm.
ha.
units.
office area
ha.
sm.
retail area
17,100
sm.
ha.

CIVITAS won the bid to develop the Urban Design Framework Plan for this strategic ANU site, adjacent to Canberra’s City Centre:

  • The vision for Union Court and University Avenue is to create a living heart for ANU’s campus, while also creating an engaging nexus for the community of Canberra and the university.  
  • The Framework allows for higher intensity uses, more complete building mass to both frame public space while adding density and intensity of use.
  • Union Court, a newly shaped public ‘agora,’ will be framed by a new state-of-the-art library, and new active edges containing vibrant shops.
  • Heritage buildings will be repurposed to keep history and diversity present on the public square.
  • Improved connectivity, with legible axial pedestrian ways will help create a framework that can endure, as building uses and forms evolve over time.
  • Integrated and precinct-wide sustainability considerations such as facade orientation, embodied energy, carbon positivity/neutrality, district energy.

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