Engineering – Foamboards Blog

Architects: HASSELL, Richard Kirk Architect
Location: Brisbane QLD, Australia
Architect In Charge: HASSELL, Richard Kirk Architect
Area: 18000.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Scott Burrows

From the architect. The Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) at the University of Queensland is a state of the art engineering education building with flexible teaching and learning spaces.

The multi-purpose building has the appropriate mix of learning, workplace and social areas. The building co-locates five key materials, science and engineering research centres and occupies a prime site overlooking the University lakes.

Hands-on learning is embraced through an engaging and collaborative education environment. Some spaces follow a ‘design studio’ model with well considered learning tools that enhance the creative process.

The building integrates teaching and research laboratories in addition to large scale manufacturing and civil engineering research laboratories.

It supports various hydraulic, wind, materials and structural and advanced form processing laboratories within its program. The building also aims to act as a ‘live learning hub’ for students who occupy the building.

AEB facilitates new teaching and learning spaces that accommodate the University’s new curriculum. The building incorporates both passive and integrated sustainability initiatives with a targeted reduced energy consumption. HASSELL and Richard Kirk Architect in joint venture won the limited design competition for AEB.

Advanced Engineering Building / HASSELL + Richard Kirk Architect originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Jan 2014.

send to Twitter | Share on Facebook | What do you think about this?

[ccw-atrib-link]

An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.

Lankhorst and his co‑authors present such an enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as‑is’ to ‘to‑be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.

The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many real‑life case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.

[ccw-atrib-link]

Tag: Engineering

Advanced Engineering Building / HASSELL + Richard Kirk Architect

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (The Enterprise Engineering Series)