Encompassing academic, commercial, residential and retail elements of the campus for the next five to ten years
Built on the old Casey airfield, Monash University’s most recent Victorian campus is situated in Melbourne’s fastest growing urban corridor.
The Urban Plan will be the physical framework for an orderly, integrated and economic development of the academic, commercial, residential and retail elements of the campus for the next five to ten years. By 2009 it is envisaged the campus will accommodate 10,000–15,000 students.
Among the University’s primary objectives are accommodation for international students, optimising returns of its commercial interests and reservation of sufficient space for future academic need. On such a large site (54ha) the expectations of the stakeholders are rightfully high and this urban plan seeks to embrace the complex aspirations of the Monash University and the City of Casey.
The site has excellent freeway access and is close to Berwick train station, Berwick Public Hospital (under construction) and the Berwick Township.
Foreseen is a future that melds a dynamic and memorable university campus with an evolving, expanding community of learning, living and working. The key idea behind preparing such a response is to describe a planning framework that provides for the integrated siting of a varied number of built form types that allows for adaptation and change, for environmental sustainability and for changes of use as the community matures.
