A theatre of invention for Western Sydney

A noodle shop was once planned for the irregular ground-floor tenancy now occupied by Western Sydney University’s Factory of the Future. Instead, students operate robotic arms, test digital fabrication methods and work with technologies that might otherwise have been shut away in specialist laboratories.Designed by HDR across two levels of the university’s Bankstown City Campus, the 395-square-metre facility is intended to make advanced manufacturing visible and accessible. Its groun