Jackson Architecture• award winning national

design practice

• institutional project focus

• excellence in complex highly serviced projects:

• a focus in getting the detail right

• engagement with the users: workshopping the brief

• innovation in briefing and planning

• quality of working environments

• environmental sustainability

Melbourne

Brisbane

Sydney

Canberra

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Discovery CentrePlant Industries, CSIRO Canberra

• A biological research centre

• Interactive public displays,

• Teaching facilities,

• Conferencing and café

• Revealing the science

• Engaging the public

• $18 million 2000

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• PC2 / PC3 Containment

Laboratories

• Animal House: Quarantine, Specific Pathogen Free

• NMR Spectrometry:900,600+500 NMR’s

• Electron Microscopy• Controlled Environment Rooms and

Greenhouse

• 35,000m2

• $100 million

Queensland Bioscience Precinct University of Queensland and CSIRO

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Project understanding

• Establish a world-class Research Precinct that is functionally efficient and cost effective• Deliver a co-location strategy to facilitate collaboration• Maintain the individual identity of Precinct partners• Facilitate resource and facility sharing for economies of scale• Provide generic, flexible and adaptable laboratories• Optimise integration of the old and new with minimum disruption• Design a sympathetic urban response recognising the historic University context

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• A joint venture with dual client project management representation

• Reporting and Consultation with Project Control Group, Client Design Group, Executive Project Group, User Representatives

• University, City Council, State and Federal Committee consultation and approval pathways

• A flexible facility over time - the generic laboratory concept

Complex Client Groups Queensland Bioscience Precinct

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Accessibility, Security & Amenity

•Cluster public activities

•Single point of staffed entry

•Tiered levels of security

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Interaction & Connectivity

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Servicing Strategy - Diagram

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Visual Connections + Servicing

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AIBN TYPICAL FLOOR PLATE

QBP TYPICAL FLOOR PLATE

•Ghost corridor for optimum lab efficiency

•Proximity of lab, office+ support

•Allow variation in group sizes

•Light and ambience

•Clean/dirty corridors

•Minimise services impact

•OH+S

•Hazardous goods management

•Team clustering + interaction

Generic Laboratory Units

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Adaptability - Lab Configuration Options

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Space Data Sheet - Input• Workshopping and

challenging the users

• Anticipating the future

• The brief as a living entity

• Key personnel with proven

laboratory experience 

• A database system to

secure performance

objectives

• An “Access” data base for

room data sheets and

schedules

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INTERPRETING THE BRIEF:THE FUNCTIONAL STRATEGY

Foster and Partners

Foster and Partners