- client:
- Grocon
- date:
- 2008
- location:
- Melbourne, Carlton 3054
- map:
- link to google maps
A company flagship with flexible works-spaces accessed via an active double height lobby/cafe beneath a winter-garden capturing northern warmth beneath a planted roof garden.
This commercial office building was designed for a tenant on behalf of Grocon, the site’s developer. The building is designed to maximise floor space within a ‘T’ shaped sectional planning envelope by testing the limit of floor level extensions beyond the boundary line on the eastern edge of the site and by developing a construction methodology which allowed for large cantilevering of levels 3-10 to north and south.
The lobby is defined by a series of stacked and varied recycled timber batons leading to a double height void which provides views to and from the public rooms on the mezzanine. The northern end of the upper level incorporates an extensive internal winter-garden to capture the northern warmth for employees at and between work.
The project was wholly designed before the client sold the site to an alternate developer in mid 2014.
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