Our brief was to created five modern acoustically effective seminar rooms for 30 people each, and a large computer lab for group work housing 120 students.
In addition we were asked to provide student waiting areas with accessible power, LCD information displays and waste management.
Further we added a centralised communications room, new mechanical plant room, and reconfigured and refurbished the very tired amenities.
A very low slab height of 2440mm in places was difficult to deal with, and previous fit outs had extremely low suspended ceilings to allow services reticulation to occur above the ceilings.
Our approach was to have no ceilings, and carefully run services in black, maximising perceived ceiling heights.
A series of horizontal datums were applied at wall levels, along with a light linoleum floor and careful downlighting, occupants attention is focussed on items at lower level, and distracted from the low slab height.
In recognition that these teaching spacings are in the ground floor of the Languages Faculty, we generated a 15 metre long custom light.
The anodised aluminium cowl was laser cut with our invented / merged world alphabet.