B64N Co-working
Architecture Commercial Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia
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Description
Melbourne Airport is one of the world’s fastest growing airports and is Melbourne’s second largest employment hub. As the aerotropolis emerges as the economic engine room of the 21st century, the demand for commercial offices, mixed use retail, healthcare, sports, entertainment and education continues to increase.
Building 64 North is a co-working entity located within an existing hangar shed providing over 3000 square meters of working, meeting and socialising spaces. Adaptive reuse reflects our collective belief that it is our environmental responsibility to reuse, rather than discard. Building 64 North results in a vast improvement in the environmental performance of this asset.
Questions and Answers
What were the solutions?
Improvements to the building envelope addressed the internal amenity issues, and the introduction of new glazing and skylights provided much needed natural light. The installation of a two storey structure within the soaring envelope of the existing building, and careful selection of materials and furniture, including internal planting, have created much needed softening of the industrial aesthetic.
What was the brief?
To transform an underutilised asset that had previously been used as a freight shed, and subsequent to that as a passenger handling terminal, into a vibrant co-working community.
What were the key challenges?
Due to it's original design the building lacked the required insulation and glazing to provide the level of internal amenity for its new purpose as a co-working space. The scale of the interior suggested an industrial rather than a human quality that would welcome occupation. It's location at the fringe of the built form and the lack of articulation to the façade meant it did not have a clear identity within the large complex of buildings that make up the airport.
Details
| Project size | 3725 m2 |
| Site size | 3725 m2 |
| Completion date | 2020 |
| Building levels | 2 |
Project team
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Kosloff Architecture | Architect |