VICTORIAN GENE TECHNOLOGY
ACCESS CENTRE
The Victorian Gene Technology Access Centre in Melbourne is a gene science research and study facility that brings together scientists and VCE students throughout Victoria, offering a nucleus for the development of Australia’s future scientists.
Awarded the Best New Educational Facility, Victoria 2004, by the Australian Chapter of Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI), the centre represents a successful collaboration between the Dept. of Microbiology, the University of Melbourne, the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University High School, with funding provided by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
Facilities include flexible internal spaces as well as teaching laboratories, interactive classrooms, conference facilities and gallery spaces. The site’s lack of open space and the proximity of existing neighbouring buildings—including a three-level underground car park—made for complex conditions which the building design resolved. This included addressing the lack of student outdoor space by elevating the building, thus providing an enhanced student amenity by way of a covered under-croft area.
PROJECT
Victorian Gene Technology Centre
LOCATION
Melbourne VIC
CLIENT
Department of Education Victoria
Level 6 55 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Tectura Architects © 2022.
Contact: +61 (03) 9654 5444
A valued asset to Melbourne Polytechnic’s refurbished Greensborough Campus is the Melbourne Innovation Centre, an internationally acclaimed business incubator providing expertise, training, programs and networks to help grow sustainable business enterprises, create work opportunities and boost economic development.
At the Greensborough facility there is a collaborative working space for up to 30 people, as well as 24 offices—including some with sliding partitions to form larger areas—a breakout area and a mixture of small-to-medium-sized meeting rooms.
The success of the Melbourne Innovation Centre is contingent upon the cross-pollination of ideas. Tectura’s design supports this by providing a plethora of flexible work spaces to choose from to nurture spontaneous discussion and idea generation.