PMA's proposed design for Northern Metropolitan Institute of TAFE in Epping is a dynamic building that both encapsulates and responds to the challenges facing the northern suburban campus: changes in the north, the globalisation of the workforce, higher customer expectations, community diversity and the acceleration of technological change. The building is arresting, displays its inner workings and represents best practice and technological evolution.
A proposed 'front door' or 'gateway' approach to the campus will signify a clear vehicular entry into the campus, while the southern elevation adjacent to the vehicular entry acts as a contemporary proscenium, arch or gateway, inviting visitors to gravitate towards the building. Even though the functions contained within NMIT are for training rather than municipal purposes, the building achieves its monumental scale on the Dalton Road elevation. In a suburb lacking in civic buildings, the structure symbolises the expanding role of NMIT Epping's services offered to the local community, exposing the Library, Computer Commons and Gym to public view.
