WINNER
EXCELLENCE IN TIMBER DESIGN Small Budget
106 FLINDERS STREET
BATES SMART Structural Engineer: Joel Drew - Brookfield Multiplex Engineering Innovation Group Fabricator: Nathan Ray - Brookfield Multiplex Engineering Innovation Group Builder: Nathan Ray - Brookfield Multiplex Engineering Innovation Group Photographer: Peter Clarke
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Australian Timber Design Awards 2016
106 Flinders Street was designed as a cabin laboratory for an architectural physicist in Melbourne’s CBD. The space reconsiders the conventional workplace vocabulary and elements, conceiving a single space to work, meet and entertain. The office offers a tranquil and meditative sanctuary that is entirely clad in Douglas Fir to create a welcoming space. A calm tranquil office - also referred to as a thought space - has been integral to this project in terms of the materials chosen and design. Designed to replicate the environment of the client’s usual workspace in the Dandenongs, the space reflects the client’s timber framed and clad house in the country and brings a much needed respite for inner city working, veritable modern day haven. An original solution, this is a one of a kind that breaks trend to invoke new uses and new associations and creates a signalling of what the future of work could be, focused on creation and collaboration.