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UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND CRICKET CLUB

2021 - 2023

LINEBURG WANG, with STEVE HUNT ARCHITECT

Photography by David Chatfield

2021 - 2023

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The University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed is a celebration of cost efficiencies in an exploration of the standard grey block – an outcome driven by construction pricing and material supply constraints in 2020-21.

Located at the street’s edge of the University campus, the project hopes not to present as an identifiable utility shed for tractors, rather a landscape wall in a field.

As the cost of steel increased during the design process, core-filled blockwork piers replaced structural steel posts and enable the reimagining of a typical breezeblock screen.

The building is elemental, championing blockwork as both decoration and structure. The shed breathes - three-quarter blocks provide one-quarter aperture when laid to a standard 400-grid, and lintel blocks laid on their side provide a shelf to support these. These turned lintels sleeve into the coursing of the block piers, allowing the ‘breezeblock’ screen to be uniform and continuous – a veil to the various back-of-house amenity within.

The edges of the building soften at its corners – furry, a mass of blockwork hopes to appear as filigree. The building is reductive – without glass or internal lining, celebrating structure as ornamentation.

The project hopes to champion uncommon approaches to common building materials.

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Awards

2023 Australian Institute of Architects Queensland Architecture Awards, Winner,

Queensland Architecture Medallion

2023 Australian Institute of Architects Queensland Architecture Awards, Winner,  Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture

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