2015 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Whareora (Science and Wellbeing Facility), CPIT
Whareora is a significant addition to the CPIT campus. Confidently designed, planned, and detailed, it is also a significant addition to Athfield Architects’ impressive body of education buildings. A variety of learning spaces, collaborative working environments, and sports facilities coexist in this building, simply planned around a double level circulation route. The building aligns with and initiates a new campus plan that sets out to strengthen and extend circulation routes and linkages. The circulation spaces are animated by use of materials, colour and natural light and are furnished to encourage student interaction. The detailing is robust, the materials appropriate and the experience of moving through the spaces stimulating. This building demonstrates how cost-effective, rational, and functional architecture can still be colourful, welcoming and exciting.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
