The $6.3 million building is designed over three levels and includes carparking, auditoriums, academic and research offices, archives and balcony areas.
The Monash School of Rural Health building is predominantly a concrete structure, with some structural steel. It is architecturally unique, with angled columns and cantilevered elements and sunscreens. Cladding is a combination of composite aluminium cladding, exposed aggregate precast concrete panels and ecoply, with aluminium windows.Internally, there is a funky curved timber ceiling expressed as a huge red tongue.
The building integrates old and new materials, with a combination of old railway sleepers running vertically down the façade along with the clean lines of composite aluminium cladding.
As a part of the construction, the new building cantilevers over the existing building, which created its own buildability issues. Particular care was taken to ensure during the construction of major structural elements so that the existing facility was not damaged.