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LOGAN HALL
Architects   iMcBride Charles Ryan
Location : 42 Scenic Blvd, Clayton VIC 3168, Australia
Logan Hall, on Monash University’s Clayton Campus, is a 6 level building
with 250 rooms of student accommodation designed by McBride Charles
Ryan (MCR). It is located on a strategic corner where Sports Walk meets
Scenic Boulevard. This building is one of four houses of similar
accommodation that were designed concurrently by three individual design
teams – MCR, Jackson Clements Burrows and Hayball Architects in
association with Richard Middleton
The ground floor of Logan Hall will be occupied by a mix of retail tenants.
Building services and servicing, plant and equipment, the residents’ garden
and BBQ. facilities are located in a landscaped courtyard to the south of the
building. The residents’ foyer is positioned where the two wings of the
building meet. This foyer can be accessed via pedestrian approaches from
both the north and south. Vertical circulation and common facilities are also
grouped in this corner on each of the buildings levels. These, which include
double height common and games rooms, are places of increased activity
where students meet and socialize while enjoying the eastern views to the
Dandenong’s and beyond. Differing colour schemes are used in the public
spaces of each level and four distinct apartment colour schemes are
peppered throughout providing the building with identity and vibrancy.
Monash University, conceived in the modernist heyday, is the veritable
inversion of the traditional sandstone campus. Buildings as objects and
mini- megastructures, the exceptional and the ordinary, are dotted
throughout a native landscape. It is these origins which give the campus its
uniqueness and it is these origins that detract from its urbanity.