Such amagnificent site provides an unprecedented opportunity to express the beautifulqualities that architecture can have when it interacts directly with thelandscape in which it sits.
 
The designexplores the properties of surface and the possibility to manipulate thetopographical surface realising the opportunity to create functional space notonly on top of but below as well. The design blurs the vertical orientationcreating unique spatial qualities inside the majority of the most public spacesthroughout the campus.
 
Light, opendouble & triple height spaces sit in the earths land form however therestricted, dark emotion that is often associated with the underground is farfrom apparent. The refined threshold detail where the topographic surfaces meetthe built form gives hint of solid surfaces yet causes uncertainty as to theactual orientation of space. The spatial qualities created with this approachto design is almost church like, and enlightens the functional space and thesensitive interaction between built form and environment.
 
Thisapproach to design also enables the perceived mass of buildings to beminimised. Beautifully balanced horizontal surfaces form the roofs that floatno more than 4m above the relative topographical surface of the site. Whateventuates is an overall campus design that suspends itself from the topographyreflecting the puncturing of surface yet grounds itself in the environmentshowing utmost respect for the untouched paradise in which it sits.