UWS Parramatta Student Hub : The Heart of the Campus

The University of Western Sydney (UWS) wishes to invite Architects to present their designs for the Student Hub, which will provide a living heart for its Parramatta Campus. UWS would like to draw ideas from a wide range of architectural firms and achieve an exceptional proposal by supporting an open architectural design competition. Any person who is a Registered Architect may enter this competition. The Royal Australian Institute of Architects has endorsed this competition.

UWS is one of Australia’s largest universities with over 35,000 students and 2,500 staff working across ten sites and six teaching campuses in the Greater Western Sydney Region. The Parramatta Campus is strategically important in the overall UWS campus.

The Student Hub will form the new social nucleus for student life on the campus and will be responding to the students’ desire for modern state-of-the-art facilities and will be incorporating the historic landmarks of the Boiler House and Chimney Stack.

The Student Hub will co-locate a number of existing campus functions, currently located in surrounding buildings such as student services, the cafeteria and bookstore. Other appropriate functions have been included after surveys of students and staff.