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在Peter Cook’s與其CRAB建築事務所合夥人Gavin Robotham長期於知名大學如美國UCLA及哈佛大學等等的教學經驗，以及對綠色建築的關注下，一同設計了位於澳洲昆士蘭州邦德大學的Abedian建築學院（The Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University）。Abedian建築學院不但是一棟適合建築學習與永續設計理念的學院大樓，當中也包含了不少有趣的建築構想與符合氣候因素的考量。

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Abedian建築學院由一系列2-3層樓高外型如勺子狀建築空間組成長條及流線造型的整體外觀，內部不僅設計了許多聚會及討論用的小空間，並創造出一條中央走廊。同時為了適應當地炎熱及偶爾的極端氣候，內部特地考慮了通風的設計及一系列如扇狀的屋頂，以及東西向的垂直開孔來保持最佳的溫度控制；北側如睫毛似的遮陽板則有著阻擋強烈陽光但同時保持室內明亮的效果，而學院南北走向的開放式設計則導進了流動的微風。

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Abedian建築學院為CRAB所設計的第二棟學校建築。如同CRAB的其他建築，像是劇院、小型團體聚會、社交及課外活動空間的概念都可在Abedian建築學院中見到，而多色彩的裝潢及高靈活性的傢俱設計特性也在學院中隨處可見。學院西北方如脊椎造型的內部設計成了一處受歡迎的校內生活聚集場所，舉凡學生的實驗活動或是授課等等都可在這舉行，而從二樓教學區的旋轉梯而下則連接至長形的中央走廊，二旁則是一系列勺子狀設計的小空間。為了配合著周遭起伏的景觀地形，Abedian建築學院內外部也特地設計出起伏的造型，而外觀則為透明感十足如包覆式的帶狀外表設計。

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CRAB事務所指出希望Abedian建築學院能有著與自然呼應的特色以及獨特的造型與空間上的變化，在外觀的設計上也利用遮陽板及圓柱裝置阻擋來自北方的強烈直射日光，尤其是當地夏日時節的炙熱陽光以避免內部光線過亮及溫度過高的問題，但同時也讓南方的溫暖日光讓緩緩灑進，讓使用者擁有明亮及舒適的空間氛圍。

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編譯／蘇琨峰　圖文／CRAB Studio

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蘇琨峰／Andre

一隻喜愛新事物也對舊事物固執的牡羊。台北工專土木工程科、雲林科技大學營建工程結構組畢業，工作後決定離職前往澳洲再度充實自己並一圓留學夢，畢業於墨爾本大學經濟與商業研究所，主修商業與資訊管理。喜歡看建築、旅行探索、研究攝影、愛打網球、沉溺爵士樂當了爵士樂團薩克斯風手。目前為《欣建築／國際脈動》編譯、文字記者、辦理欣建築相關活動及國際領隊。

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The Abedian School of Architecture is located on the campus designed in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki. It forms part of the Faculty of Architecture and Sustainable Design. Winning the competition in January 2011, CRAB was awarded the contract and the building was completed in 2013.

Peter Cook’s and Gavin Robotham’s long experience as teachers of architecture and their regular working knowledge of several including the Bartlett, AA, Harvard, SCI-ARC, Columbia, Frankfurt and UCLA enabled them to incorporate a response to many anecdotal criteria as well as constructional and climatic objectives.

The building is a long, airy loft on two to three levels articulated by a series of ‘scoops’: defining structure-enclosures that can be used for casual meetings and ‘crit’ sessions. These line the central street that gently rises up the hilltop site. As befits a hot and sometimes sticky climate, the building is airy and folds over upon itself in a series of fan-like roofs and slits with advantage is taken of the east-west axis to clarify a very climate-controlled development of the building envelope that includes sunshade ‘eyebrows’ on the sun　drenched north side.　

The Abedian School of Architecture is CRAB’S second University building. As with their other work, the sociology and sense of ‘theatre’, of small, intimate groups within institutions, the importance of the non-curricula moments – and a ‘sense of theatre’ – all run through the project which is taken right through to their design of its colourful and highly flexible furniture.

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CRAB’S APPROACH TO THE BOND DESIGN

It is our experience that philosophical intentions and curricula have a habit of ebbing and flowing over time but should always be based around observable habits and needs.

Changes occur in response to world issues and new global challenges but sometimes the generators of change are more local - a change of personnel, for example. Hopefully they are the result of thoughtful extensions to the discipline of architecture – the entrenchment of a new way of teaching which reflects life outside.　

Thus the material disposition of elements, spaces and mechanisms must be devised in such a way that future visions are not inhibited. A big, bland shed that could be subdivided by screens might be a response to such a view, but we believed strongly in the responsibility of architecture to identify – and by this identification – to stimulate.

Thus this building, the studios and other major spaces follow a clear system – but with deliberate idiosyncrasies – that can resonate with the users. We illustrate this delight in ‘the ‘incidental’ and the ‘episodic’ by logging moments in the building’s life, responding with devices such as the ‘scoops’ and constantly drawing upon our long experience of architecture schools.

We play out our belief that - as well as identifiable ‘teaching’- the experience of a good school is made up of friendship, atmosphere, nuance intriguedness and inspiration. So we devise a series of stages upon which this can all be played-out : which result in ‘platforms’, ‘pockets’, ‘corners’, ‘eyries’ and ‘escape runs’.

There are built elements and territories that cry out to be appropriated by those who themselves will spend their lives responding to peoples’ needs.

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Forested pads & silent scoops　

Bond University’s new Abedian School of Architecture might be experienced as varied and episodic journey.

Sheltered and determined to the north, the building is airy, effortless and free to the south.

The curvature of its spinal interior route establishes a new soft core for the North West Quadrant of the Campus – a core populated by the life of the school, by student experimentation, social gatherings, lectures, crits and weird happenings...

Leaving the existing spine pathway, the broad internal path dives underneath the nose of the quiet-study strip and proceeds past a series of ‘scoops’.

Via its meandering internal ‘hill’, the rise and fall of the building gently echoes the topography of its surroundings.

From this ‘street’ the faculty’s studios and large gathering spaces spread out onto a terraced deck – which itself melts into a re-vegetated hillside garden.

These ‘tectonic rafts’ together with the central ‘spine’, quieter study areas and dramatic ‘scoops’ define the building’s rocky core.

In welcome contrast a majority of the filtering ‘wraps’ and ‘insertions’ are of a softer, more translucent character.

We created a very ambient building, where the individual can really identify with the nature of his or her activity – thus the studio pads, scoops, decks and corners – though based on a clear hierarchy and system – have significant shifts of direction or variations of size.

These elements particularise – we hope, in a subtle and enjoyable way.

We wished to manipulate the surface of the building – sheltering it from direct northern light and filtering the southern light into the interior. Avoiding glare and overheating – without homogenising one’s experience the interior. 　

We created instead, an idiosyncratic series of ‘lit places’ and darker, more elemental pockets.

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A multi-modal approach climate control

Our proposal is designed from the ground up to minimise undesirable solar gain within the building’s thermal envelope.

Both the roof and façade systems anticipate the potential strength and direction of the Queensland summer sun. Together the orientation of the building’s openings, with the sun　hoods and column system of the facades succeed in mitigating a majority of the Sun’s potentially excessive effects.　

The building’s orientation reduces the potential exposure of the north, east and west facing walls and windows. On these facades, each opening is sheltered from the strongest direct sunlight. Additional summer solar protection has been applied to all north facing windows. On the largest, west elevation external vertical columns and overhanging roof protect the studio areas from the harshest indirect summer sun.

We have also taken account of the prevailing winds during the development stage of our scheme. The building encircles the crown of the hill, turning its harder ‘back’ to the colder south winds. Winds, whereas the north façade shelters a variety of window configurations that are screened from the sun by a series of metallic ‘eyebrows’ that effectively create a art piece as well as a shielding system.

Internally, the main circulation areas along the internal ‘street’ act as a thermal buffer and encourage the natural movement of air along the length of the building.

The building’s construction also provides a higher degree of inertia against external temperature fluctuations than similar contemporary technologies. The thermal mass of the concrete ‘scoops’ absorb heat when the surroundings are hotter than the mass, returning that warmth to the environment during the evening and at night when the surroundings are generally cooler.

Whilst it may not be possible to eliminate entirely the need for traditional mechanical air-conditioning in all areas of the building, the differentiated internal envelope allows for flexibility in its application whilst the design of the building itself will limit the degree to which conventional cooling methods need be relied upon.

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Andre

A male Aries, loves learning new things and being nostalgic to old things. Academic background: Bachelor of Construction Engineering Department at National YunTech University, Taiwan and Diploma of Graduate School of Business and Economics at University of Melbourne. With character of a little introvert, addicting to architecture, photography, tennis, Jazz music and saxophone and being the translator of Xin Architecture/ International, reporter, holder of activities and international tour leader.

Peter Cook－邦德大學Abedian建築學院