Facilities Management Services Division
Deakin University
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Project: | Masterplan | |
| Location: | Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds | ||
| Project Status: | In progress | ||
| Project Contact: | Yvonne Yip, Facilities Management Services Division Phone: (03) 925 17421 |
12 August 2008
An information session will be held on 10 September. This session is available both the University community and the wider community. You will have an opportunity to view the draft Masterplan, understand the campus drivers and ask questions.
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Venue: kc3.406
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 (ia1.006)
If you would like to register your interest for this session: community@deakin.edu.au
A Masterplan sets broad guidelines that govern any proposed future development. Any future specific building projects are assessed and measured against the Masterplan.
A Masterplan is NOT a development plan or a building plan. The Masterplan sets out where any future buildings can and cannot be located; it should not be taken to imply that buildings will be built on all the available sites.
A Masterplan is not a static document. It will have yearly reviews, three-yearly updates and be the subject of a major review after 10 years. It acts as a design framework for the University itself and a guide for its architects and other project consultants.
Daryl Jackson from Jackson Architecture has been appointed as the Masterplanner. Daryl Jackson has undertaken a number of university master plans. Jackson Architecture have specialised in educational planning and architecture for over forty years. Jackson Architecture has been engaged on a number of international commissions, for example, the University of Auckland, New Zealand masterplan of the Grafton Campus and Vietnam National University of Hanoi to design and masterplan the Faculty of Information Technology. National commissions include the University of Melbourne, Australian National University, Bond University and University of Ballarat.
Recent growth and site utilisation has advanced through collaborative and co-located industry and business research linked into the University. Already the attachment of Satyam Computer Services Ltd evidences this approach and the existing campus at Waurn Ponds, located on the southern edge of Geelong, has the capacity to attract more activity of this type without compromising or limiting academic or research space or opportunity.
This Masterplan aims to capitalise on the campus's strength in its value in rural and regional engagement.
This is an exciting stage of the University's development at the Waurn Ponds Campus.
For comments or enquiries, please contact community@deakin.edu.au.
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Create pedestrian connections |
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Define faculty and functional precincts |
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Form a network of courtyards |
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Retrofit existing infrastructure and compliment with new buildings |
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Strengthen entry points |
Deakin was established by the Victorian Parliament in 1974 as a 'university in the Geelong area'.
Deakin University is named after Alfred Deakin, who is often called Australia's Voice of Federation and was Prime Minister three times between 1903 and 1910. Deakin was the first Australian university to be named after a politician.
When it was established, Deakin incorporated two existing Geelong-based institutions, the Geelong State College and the Gordon Institute of Technology.
Deakin began teaching on 1 April 1977.
Deakin initially operated from four sites, all in Geelong: the Waurn Ponds campus it inherited from the Gordon Institute, the Vines Road Campus of the Geelong State Teachers College and two smaller locations in Geelong. By 1984, Deakin had consolidated its operations at the Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong.
Deakin's growth outside Geelong began in 1990 when it amalgamated with the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education. This continued in 1991 when it amalgamated with Victoria College, which operated from Burwood, Toorak and Clayton.
