Client: Holmesglen TAFE
Employer: peckvonhartel
Location: Moorabbin, Victoria
Value: $5-50m
Year: 2011
Area: 85,000 sq.m
Role: Project Architect/ Design Manager
Responsibilities: Liz Watt’s role as the Project and Design Manager for the Holmesglen Moorabbin Master Plan project included user and stakeholder consultation, projects requirements scoping and strategic brief development, option investigation and evaluation, management of the design process and presentation to Holmesglen Boards.
Project description: The existing campus includes buildings from 1970s construction to recent facilities. The site is split into two precincts separated by a car park: the front section includes the commercially operated Hemisphere Hotel and education facilities.
The rear section includes cafeteria, administration, trade workshops, and general classrooms. Access to facilities is disjointed and in varied condition and requires a complete strategy to unify and consolidate the campus.
The final campus vision includes development of a central ‘heart’ or student hub and a focus on the continued enhancement of landscape, courtyards, and transitional spaces through improved physical and visual connections. The Master Plan maintains two precincts and adopts a ‘transformational’ approach that utilises and enhances existing facilities and conditions, rather than re-inventing the campus.
