Ecological Research Institute
location: Western Australia
size: 700 sqm
for: Competition - 2nd Place
with:
NMBW Architecture Studio, Officer Woods Architects, Baracco + Wright Architects
REALMStudios,
Architecture Associates
date: 2020
This project is an Environmental Education Centre located at the crux of wet and dry landscapes in Western Australia.
This is a ‘building in the round’ with three main entry approaches connecting the main desire lines. Peripheral buildings act as signposts and showcases. The building consists of loose volumes of gently reflective transparent external surfaces combined with mixed media screens and warm timber interiors supported in a superstructure framework. The dynamic plan and volumetric arrangement are collected in space through a mesh ground plane and large dish shaped roof. The dish roof supports a moss and lichen living terrain imagined as a separate performative research ‘garden’.
This is a ‘building in the round’ with three main entry approaches connecting the main desire lines. Peripheral buildings act as signposts and showcases. The building consists of loose volumes of gently reflective transparent external surfaces combined with mixed media screens and warm timber interiors supported in a superstructure framework. The dynamic plan and volumetric arrangement are collected in space through a mesh ground plane and large dish shaped roof. The dish roof supports a moss and lichen living terrain imagined as a separate performative research ‘garden’.
GROUND FLOOR AND LANDSCAPE