TOUR 15 - TERTIARY BUILDING INNOVATIONS AT UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY
University of Canterbury has had to rebuild most of their campus. There are a range of exciting new spaces, the tour will you to the Engineering Precinct, Rehua and the Rutherford Regional Science and Innovation Centre
REHUA BUILDING
Architect: Athfields
Type: New Build
Rehua Building houses the College of Education, Health and Human Development, Business. Law and centre for Entrepreneurship. A seven story building with avariety of rooms, cultural function space, a light-filled atrium connecting the north and south blocks and a ‘makerspace’ to create, invent and learn in. ENGINEERING THE FUTURE (CETF)
RUTHERFORD REGIONAL SCIENCE AND INNOVATION CENTRE
Architect: JasmaxRutherford Regional Science and Innovation Centre which opened in 2018 brings together many scientific disciplines that were housed in different buildings. This transparency is innovative and encourages questions to be asked and answers to be found in ways they otherwise couldn’t have been in traditional ‘siloed’ departments. Shaped like an X-Chromosome the building is state of the art.Type: New Build