A Canberra registered training organization has lodged plans for two eight- and nine-storey buildings in Gungahlin that would house a mix of classrooms, apartments, offices and a motel.
Designed by Judd Studio with landscape architecture by Space Lab, the Canberra Business and Technology College buildings would sit on the corner of Gungahlin Place and Camilleri Way, in the commercial centre of Gungahlin.
The building to the west of the site, fronting Gungahlin Place and Camilleri Way, would house 46 residential apartments above ground-level commercial tenancies. The building to the east, fronting Camilleri Way, would house the education establishment across five levels, along with the motel and associated rooftop restaurant, and ground-level commercial tenancies.
Canberra Business and Technology College development at Gungahlin, designed by Judd Studio.
Image: Judd Studio
In planning documents, Judd Studio describes the apartment building as “an articulated box form” with inset balconies and batten shading elements introducing a “staccato rhythm” to the facade.
The education facility building, meanwhile, is conceived as a “stepping articulated object,” with the design making use of the required four- and six-metre setbacks to develop “a stepped angled plan form that is reminiscent of an opening book.”
Space Lab’s landscape strategy calls for deep-rooted planting zones at the ground plane on the corner of Gungahlin Place and Camilleri Way, giving “an appropriate sense of address” to the site.
Canberra Business and Technology College currently operates four sites across Canberra. It purchased the two blocks for the proposed Gungahlin buildings in May, according to Riot ACT.
