Project Overview
Wetherill Architects were engaged by UTS to strip out and re-fit specific working areas of Level 18 of Building 1 for UTS’ Australian China Relations Institute in order to align with the University’s ambitions to centrally co-located administrative (non teaching) functions on campus.
Constructed in the early 70’s, Building 1 is a significant work of mid-century modernism, where structural expressionism along with robust and natural finishes are central core; create open plan to the perimeter and re-expose the building structure.
This partial floor refurbishment combines a corporate aesthetic and distinguished by subtle cultural influences via acoustic fretwork, as well the creative use of glass panel to enhance the visual connections between offices. The offices are located around the perimeter, with four smaller offices featuring high-level and side-wall glazed partitions to create a sense of openness by increasing borrowed light.
