Open Training and Educational Network, Strathfield, Australia
Important characteristics: teaching long distance, uses advanced teaching technologies.
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Open Training and Educational Network, Strathfield, Australia |
Important characteristics: teaching long distance, uses advanced teaching technologies. |
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Open, long distance education takes advantage of new information and communication technology for learning. Even if this method does not require structured lessons, the students must still access the educational structure. Institutions that offer open teaching need space to study and work, meeting rooms for tutors, laboratories, libraries and equipped areas. This complex, built specially, is an answer to the continuously changing needs connected to the development of open schools and can be considered the principle structure of the type build in New South Wales.
The design integrated two preexisting
buildings with a series of wings; three floors high, that surround a central
courtyard. A high ceiling pavilion on only one floor that is the pivot
point for circulation and is the main entrance and hub for the building.
A communication tower is located at the pavilion
junction with the circulation pivot point and has a double role: functional
and symbolic that communicates the high-tech character of the building.
The offices in the complex are, for most cases, a free layout with one
area to produce didactic material.
The building houses an administrative unit,
teacher's and support personnel rooms, a movie and television theater
and a material distribution center with the attached archives.
There are three seminar halls, a library
with video material, a technology education area and a business center
that is rented to outside suppliers.
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