The new redevelopment of the UNSW Lower Campus Architecture School brings with it an opportunity to bring together art, performance and design by bridging NIDA and UNSW. Mixed-use and adaptable spaces maximise collaborative learning and cultural diversity between two close neighbours.

A series of tiered spaces operate both vertically and horizontally in order to promote chance interaction and collaboration between students. Like a mountain, it naturally acts as wind block, reduces noise within the rest of the campus, and allows rainwater to filter down into the "green spaces" without the need for irrigation.

An operable rooftop theatre with actuating seating can allow the space to remain as a lecture theatre in winter, and as an multipurpose open-air theatre for NIDA performances and practices and exhibitions in summer.

Project 3 // Architectural Design Studio 1 - UNSW.