*에어아트리움, 지속가능한 스프링보드 비즈니스 센터 [ McDowell + Benedetti ] Springboard Business Centre

영국 스프링보드에 새롭게 건립된 비즈니스센터는 소규모 그룹의

자유도 높은 작업환경에 대한 대응과 각 그룹간의 원활한 소통을

지원하는 새로운 워크스페이스의 타입폴로지로 제안한다.

거주환경을 고려한 건축물의 남향배치는 중심에 위치한 아트리움을 기점으로

동서축 방향의 두개 블록으로 배치된다.

-자연채광을 최대한 유도한다.-

두개의 블록에는 각각 개별적인 작업이 가능한 워크스페이스 유닛이 구성되며

센터에 위치한 코어존과 연계된 공용공간으로 확장된다. 여기에 워크스페이스를 구획하는

벽체 중심에 설치된 폴딩도어를 통하여 개별적인 공간은 다목적실로 확장,

개별성의 독립성 확보와 공용의 소통성을 제공한다.

기본적으로 비즈니스 센터는 지속가능한 건축을 지향한다.

센터에 위치한 아트리움은 열에너지의 효율적인 순환, 관리를

돕는 동시에 자연채광 -북측블록- 자연환기를 적극적으로 유도한다.

-에어아트리움 설계의 포인트는 주변 실보다 아트리움 상층부가 높게 디자인하여

열에너지의 순환을 도와야 한다.-

그리고 비즈니스 센터의 고유한 알루미늄 파사드와 동측, 서측의 저고도의

직사광선 유입을 방지하는 버티컬 루버 설치로 거주환경의 질을 보장한다.

reviewed by SJ

McDowell+Benedetti’s The Springboard Business Centre presents a new typology for the workspace, responding to a growing demand in the UK for small, flexible and sociable managed workspaces. Designed specifically for start-up businesses, The Springboard Centre, which was officially opened this summer by HRH Duke of York, provides subsidized offices, communal spaces and training facilities in a new 13,500 sqft “incubator” building located in an industrial park in Stokesley, North Yorkshire.

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Architects: McDowell + Benedetti
Location: Valley View, North York Moors National Park, Ainthorpe, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 2JU, UK
Services Engineer: BDSP
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Quantity Surveyor: Jackson Coles
Photographs: Tim Soar

The building has been funded by Yorkshire Forward, European Regional Development Fund and Hambleton District Council with the intention to foster new businesses and boost entrepreneurship in the region.

The winning entry of an international RIBA competition, the design is innovative and highly sustainable in both servicing and construction. The client wanted a landmark building to attract and promote young innovative new businesses. The winning design so captured their imagination, they raised additional funds to deliver the scheme without compromise.

The result is a successful local authority public building (built on a modest budget of £2 million/ £148 per sqft) and an exemplar sustainable building model, which could be repeated in other locations with minimum modification.

The building creates intimate flexible spaces conducive to how small businesses operate. It is orientated on a north/south axis to maximise daylight through a central atrium bounded by a rigorous arrangement of two rows of offices on two floors. Services design allows easy reconfiguration of layouts of units over the life of the building. All units open onto a generous multi-purpose communal space with stair core and centralised facilities, creating an open atmosphere and promoting the cross-fertilisation of ideas. Folding doors moderate between private offices and communal space, enabling tenants to choose an appropriate balance of privacy and openness. Small inter-connecting units permit businesses to accumulate space as they grow during their maximum 3-year tenancy from 350 sqft to 700 sqft to 1050 sqft or more.

The Springboard Centre is already the recipient of four awards: the RIBA 2005 White Rose Award for Sustainability, the Royal Town Planning Institute Regional Innovation and Sustainability Award, The Journal Landmark Environment Award and the RICS Pro Yorkshire Design and Innovation Award.

The Springboard Centre wears its environmental credentials with pride.  The building has a high performance envelope with insulation above existing building regulation standards.  Other strategies include maximised daylighting and natural ventilation, with both weather-sensing automatic controls and individual occupier-control, exposed thermal mass, rainwater and grey water recycling and biodiversity landscaping.

Both externally and internally the building deploys a limited palette of ubiquitous renewable materials, which are robust and durable and have been specified for long-term performance and reduced maintenance. These materials are repeated in an elemental design to provide significant economies in construction and reflect an overall strategy to minimise energy consumption.

The Springboard’s signature aluminium louvered façade wraps the entire building to provide shade from the easterly and westerly low angled sun. Spaced at 500mm from the building, it also doubles as a security screen, allowing high level windows to be left open in the summer to aid night cooling.

The floating roof structure, constructed of timber trusses pre-fabricated in Austria is lit with rooflights to create a beacon at night to locate the centre, establishing an enduring iconic image.

McDowell+Benedetti helped judge an artwork competition won by Kathryn Hodgkinson, who has produced a series of cast glass installations throughout the building.

The building is tenanted by small businesses specialising in sustainable technologies.

from  archdaily