Tutorial Room
Space description
Tutorial rooms are designed as a multi purpose educational space for:
- education content delivery,
- interactive learning activities,
- interactive discussion, and
- active learning.
Refer also to Educational Design Principles within these guidelines.
Adjacencies
This space is to be located adjacent to student / circulation zones and near to other student collaboration spaces.
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Components
Planning
Planning
| Site factors | Ideally locate near a student common space and/or a space that allows congregation before and after the room is in use. |
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| Room and Spaces Planning Requirements | Square or maximum X:Y, 1:1.5 |
| Design occupancy | 20 - 100 |
| Area | Approx 2m2/p, depending on desired layout |
| Other | - Design for flexibility with furniture arragenment - Usage is typically transient for 1-4 hour periods - High use space with various user groups. |
Building fabric
General
| General | Layout of loose furniture to provide appropriate access through room. |
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| Design principles | - Design for frequent and transient occupancy. - Provide appropriate sight lines for installed AV and white boards. - Provide appropriate floor to ceiling height to suit AV spec; nominal 3m. |
| Materials & finishes | - Use hard wearing, durable finishes. - Install bump rails on side and rear walls. |
| Proprietary items | - |
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Materials & Finishes
| Paint finishes |
- Use hard wearing, low maintenance, low VOC paints. - Nominal base colours: Brilliant White, Napkin White - Feature wall colours to be determined through design process. |
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Internal Walls
| Impact Resistance | Impact resistant walls are recommended |
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| Fire Rating | - |
| Wall Finish | Pinboard finish from floor to 2100mm to front and rear wall. Pinboard not required below windows with sills less than 1800mm above floor. |
| Skirtings | All skirtings to be metal or aluminium with black finish. |
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Floors
| General Selection Requirements | Provide for high traffic, low maintenance. |
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| Variations | - |
| Preferred Material Selection |
Carpet tiles - 600mm x 600mm |
| Carpet | Preferred carpet: Interface Equilibrium II - colour: Rotate. |
| Resilient Floor Finishes | CP - Carpet finish. |
| Other | - |
Ceilings
| Ceiling | Painted set plasterboard ceiling, or tiled grid system. |
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| Ceiling Heights | Nominal min. 3m floor to ceiling height. |
| Ceiling Selection | White finish to suit room/building design |
| Acoustic Ceilings | Acoustic ceiling tiles to be used where recommended by designer. |
Openings
Windows
| Window Selection Requirements | Windows are required to provide natural light to these spaces. Preferred sill height at 1200mm above FFL. |
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| Glazing | External window glazing is to be integrally tinted for glare and heat transfer control to meet the regulatory requirements. |
| Other | Windows should not be openable in air conditioned spaces. |
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Doors
| Doors Type | Half glass door, sidelight, or vision cutout to circulation. |
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| Door Function | Provide latch to allow door to hold open. |
| Fire / Acoustic Rated | As per building design spec. |
| Frame Type | As per building design spec. |
| Glazing | Half glazed door or side light to circulation spaces |
| Door Hardware | Lock type Classroom lock with Cardex swipe security. Keying / locking Swipe Card Access - Tutorial Master keying Master keyed - Tutorial Other - |
| Other | Operable walls are not desirable but where required they are to be acoustically rated. |
Furniture
Furniture
| General Design Principles |
- 2 desks to be accessible - nominal 1 at front and 1 at rear of room. - Mobile furniture preferred in tutorial rooms. |
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| Recommended Desk Selection |
- Accessible desks: 1500x600 with accessible legs and height adjustable frame. - Standard desks: 750x600x720H loose desks. - Charcoal powdercoat finish to base/frame/legs. - Laminate top in 'Ocean Micro' colour with matched edges. |
| Recommended Chair Selection | - Moulded polypropylene seat shells - black finish. - Chrom plated sled base. |
| Other | Lecterns - refer to AV component specs. |
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Fixed Furniture
| Whiteboards | Whiteboards: - Magnetic porcelain with satin silver edgeless frame. - 1200mm high, fixed 900mm above FFL. - Width to suit wall dimensions with evenly proportioned seamless joins. - Pen trays to suit. |
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| Pinboards | Not required. |
| Notice Boards | Not required. |
| Projection Screens | As per AV spec. |
| Lecterns | As per AV spec. |
Fittings
Fittings
| Bump rails | Fix along side and rear walls: - Brushed stainless steel finish or coloured to suit feature wall. - Nominal 150mm high, fixed from 650mm above FFL |
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Window Coverings
| Blinds |
- Window blinds for brown out or block out function. - Preferred product: Luxaflex manually operated roller blinds. - Operation can be programmed in to lectern. |
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Signage
| General and Room numbering | Refer to Signage component specs and the Signage and Wayfinding guidelines. |
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Security
Security
| Security type / group | A |
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| CCTV |
CCTV to have coverage in adjoining circulation spaces. CCTV not desirable in teaching spaces. |
| Access control | Swipe card access to room via cardax system.. |
| Keying | Refer to Doors |
| Other | Include Reed switches to doors and operable windows. |
Acoustics
Acoustics
| Noise level | Noise Level Within space should be considered |
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| Noise emittance | Limited internal noise emittance |
| Room to room | - Room to Room acoustics should be minimised. - Provide acoustic door seals to break out spaces, and between adjoining teaching spaces. - Acoustic treatment within walls and ceiling spaces to be incorporated where required. |
| Room acoustics | - Room reverberation time to be considered. - Recommended mid frequency reverberation time of 0.6-0.8 seconds. |
Services
Ventilation
| Natural ventilation | Not desirable. |
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| Supply air | As per building spec, to suit occupancy. |
| Controls | - |
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Conditioning
| Mechanical cooling | Air Conditioning |
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| Mechanical heating | Provide Heating Refer to Mechanical Design Specification. |
| Controls | - |
| Other | - |
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Fire protection
| Fire detection | Fire detection / alarms to comply with NCC. |
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| Fire suppression | - As Required for design of building |
| Portable fire equipment | - As Required for design of building. |
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Illumination
| Light fixtures | LED based fittings to suit layout | |
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| Lighting / lux levels | 240 lux | |
| Lighting controls | - Managed by BMS, refer to Design Guide - Isolate zones in relation to AV spec. | |
| Other | Task lighting to lectern. | |
| Natural Lighting | Daylight | Natural daylight to room required |
| Brownout | Brownout of room is required | |
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Communication / AV
| Voice | Lecturn selection pending room size, (VGA input, Data Projector) |
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| Data | 2 double data points adjacent to white board. 2 general data points in room. |
| AV type | AV to AVTS Standard, Type L1D (Digital) - Including Lectern, AV Display & PA with hearing Loop, |
| WAP | Wireless Access point to all of room to MQ IT specification. |
| Other | - Data for Lectern, - Resident PC for Lectern - Phone handset behind or near lectern. |