Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Major Project

Ashton Raggatt Mc Dougall - The Innovation Centre

The Innovation Building is the first building from the Digital Harbour masterplan, completed in 2004 and now fully tenanted. It represents stage one of Digital Harbour's technology-based community, an incubator hub with a focus on offices for new enterprises in the IT industry, together with the R & D components of larger organisations such as Telstra.Like its neighbour, the Port 1010 building, the Innovation Building's floorplan has been designed to allow maximum flexibility and collaborative work environments for its tenants.



The design strategy references themes and visual codes of our technological age. Circuit boards, bar codes, morse code and binary numerals can be interpreted in the random striated precast concrete panels.The carefully articulated western facade design provides smart, efficient shade protection while maintaining views to Victoria Harbour. The individually profiled fins are in themselves not unusual, but when read as a whole they create an intriguing visual effect.

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