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The fitout balances private and shared offices, communal PhD and graduate areas, meeting rooms, focus spaces, and an activated lift lobby for collaboration or quiet breaks. The central corridor was reimagined as an active spine with study nooks, meeting bays, and small collaborative zones scaled to human comfort. Timber porticos frame views and connect spaces, while a brick feature wall at the entrance nods to the building’s heritage. Pops of apricot and warm timber detailing bring cohesion and warmth, giving the research facility an atmosphere that feels both energetic and mature.
This adaptive reuse project reimagines a modest mid-century building as a contemporary research facility that reflects Monash University’s vision and supports meaningful research outcomes.
Venko’s adaptive reuse of Level 2, Building 28 at Monash University’s Clayton campus transforms the 1960s space into a contemporary home for The ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather. Developed in collaboration with the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, it honours the building’s origins while creating a highly functional, human-centred workplace for world-class research.
Through the design process, the team identified opportunities to enhance natural light and crossflow ventilation across the floor plate, qualities often absent in contemporary, air-conditioned buildings. Each space was designed to capture views of the surrounding canopy, sunlight, and fresh air, providing calm and clarity during long periods of research and writing.
Venko’s adaptive reuse of Level 2, Building 28 at Monash University’s Clayton campus transforms the 1960s space into a contemporary home for The ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather. Developed in collaboration with the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, it honours the building’s origins while creating a highly functional, human-centred workplace for world-class research.
Through the design process, the team identified opportunities to enhance natural light and crossflow ventilation across the floor plate, qualities often absent in contemporary, air-conditioned buildings. Each space was designed to capture views of the surrounding canopy, sunlight, and fresh air, providing calm and clarity during long periods of research and writing.
The fitout balances private and shared offices, communal PhD and graduate areas, meeting rooms, focus spaces, and an activated lift lobby for collaboration or quiet breaks. The central corridor was reimagined as an active spine with study nooks, meeting bays, and small collaborative zones scaled to human comfort. Timber porticos frame views and connect spaces, while a brick feature wall at the entrance nods to the building’s heritage. Pops of apricot and warm timber detailing bring cohesion and warmth, giving the research facility an atmosphere that feels both energetic and mature.
This adaptive reuse project reimagines a modest mid-century building as a contemporary research facility that reflects Monash University’s vision and supports meaningful research outcomes.
Venko gather on Wurundjeri Country. We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
