Building floor plans
The centre comprises two multi-level buildings linked by shaded and open green space, which acts as a forecourt to the restored Old Government House.
Below are floor plans for various levels, as at August 2011. As the project progresses, there may be some adjustments and changes to layouts, which will be reflected in future updates.
More detailed up-to-the-minute plans are available for staff on the Wiki.
Centre views: sections
View of the Science and Engineering Centre.
Centre views: elevations
Elevations of the Science and Engineering Centre
Level 0 and Level 1
Levels 0 and 1, or the basement levels, will provide parking space for some 270 cars.
Level 2
A 50-metre, below ground-level swimming pool, for training, recreation, and water sports will be a highlight of the lower Level 2. Enhancing the pool will be skylights to the forecourt above.
This level will also feature a 1000 sq m gymnasium with a glass outlook to the sweeping Brisbane City Botanic Gardens below. There will be push bike storage and ample shower and locker rooms for student, staff, and community sports enthusiasts.
Level 3
QUT students will enjoy an enviable new Student Bar and function area on the third level of the centre. With vibrant spaces to meet and eat, this level, partially open to the air above, will become a buzzing social heart of the centre. With bookshop and food outlets, it will have easy access for pedestrians from the Goodwill Bridge.
Levels 4 and 5
From Level 4, the two tower buildings rise. P Block is the larger floorplate and Y Block is the smaller, adjacent to the existing X Block.
Level 4 of the centre, at ground level, will establish new benchmarks in learning space design with state-of-the-art and innovative spaces for collaborative research and learning.
In P Block, a multimode tiered 230-seat lecture theatre is planned along with a modern 100-seat studio lecture theatre and flexible learning and teaching areas to facilitate interactive learning in large groups or small project groups. Each space will be equipped with latest high-tech teaching and learning tools.
Level 4 will also include multimedia scientific and technological displays onto large-scale screens and viewing corridors to ensure the site will become a resource for public knowledge.
Exciting aspects of this level will be an elegant green forecourt to the recently renovated Old Government House, and the expansive areas available for social student learning. A café hub, shady wide terraces dotted with tables and chairs and generous flat lawns for student and faculty events and casual gatherings are planned.
A student centre will also be conveniently located in X block off a walkway link from Y Block.
Level 5 of the P block will provide more opportunities for flexible collaboration by students in large and small groups. Each space will feature clusters of tables and chairs and the latest tools to advance quality technology enabled active learning.
Levels 6 to 9
Levels 6, 7, 8 and 9 will deliver state-of-the-art and innovative research spaces for science, technology, engineering and maths disciplines. Generous gathering areas, multi-purpose meeting rooms, world-class laboratories for analytical research and a landscaped terrace overlooking the Gardens are all planned.
These levels will evolve as exemplary spaces for forward-thinking, high-impact research. The research hub will enable on-site collaboration with cooperative research centres (CRCs) and house upwards of 1,000 research and teaching staff and more than 200 postgraduate research students.
Level 10
The top level of Y block will be a multi-use function space with city and river views and an outside terrace. This level will also house plant facilities, including tri-generation systems. A solar energy system will be sited on the roofs of P and Y Blocks.