Victoria University Visual Arts Studio

By Katz Architecture

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Design Encourages Creativity

Achievements
Modernisation of existing building to create strong precinct focus for the visual arts department

Awards
Dulux Colour Awards 2016 Submission

The project provides a strong identity for the Visual Arts, with tailor-made learning areas and workspaces centred around a presentation focus space.

Specialised teaching spaces incorporated a general studio, print, photography and drawing studios, individual student studio spaces and various storeroom and student locker areas.

Specific requirements for the visual arts have been designed into flexible learning areas that service both this and a range of other pedagogues.

The existing building shell is retained and the interior completely reworked to provide the educational needs of the user groups.

Delivered over two stages, KATZ provided full service including management of the building contract as superintendent.

Bruno Sbaglia
Project Manager, Victoria University“They’ve got to communicate … so we look for good communication and we find that very good from KATZ.”

Location . Footscray, Victoria

Client Victoria University

Area 657 sqm

Status Complete 2015 and 2016

Sustainability Environmental design responds to Greenstar criteria

Project cost $1.3 m

Photographer: John Best


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Victoria University Visual Arts Studio
Victoria University Visual Arts Studio
Victoria University Visual Arts Studio
Victoria University Visual Arts Studio
Victoria University Visual Arts Studio
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Katz Architecture is a people focused practice, motivated by the needs of our client and seeing these resolved in a functional and poetic response to each specific site.  Our simple desire is:

Enriching Spaces – Enriching lives

Founded on strong community experience, we desire to give back to communities through design and delivery. Under this mandate, Katz Architecture has grown to complete projects in a broad range of sectors including:

  • Civic and public
  • Education
  • Commercial
  • Interiors
  • Heritage and Repurposing
  • Residential
  • Industrial
  • Masterplanning

Katz Architecture embraces cutting edge technology and is running state of the art BIM (Building Information Modelling) systems on all projects. Such systems help us to design, illustrate, coordinate and deliver the highest level of professional service.

Our Approach

We start by looking forward.
We listen, collaborate, question and explore.
We examine detail, investigate opportunities and firm up solutions.
Our goal is to design spaces with value and purpose.

Create

Balancing budget with brief, we leverage our knowledge and understanding of our client’s objectives to design enriched buildings that deliver real value.

Experience

We’re there for our clients throughout the project journey, ensuring details are followed through from inception to delivery.

At ArchiPro we recognise and acknowledge the existing, original and ancient connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands and waterways across the Australian continent. We pay our respects to the elders past and present. We commit to working together to build a prosperous and inclusive Australia.