RMIT’s Building 22, also known as the Info Corner, has been recently completed. The design follows the already existing Storey Hall addition to RMIT, which was completed by ARM in 1996. Located right on the of Swanston and LaTrobe streets, the building’s addition proves to be an eye-catching green facade.
Known as the Green Brain, the design is an extension of the Penrose tile pattern which makes up the facade of Storey Hall. This annex, however, is based upon interest of the Penrose pattern and its incredible efficiency and flexibility in design. Contrary to the rigid form of the Penrose tile used on Storey Hall, ARM explores how they can use the pattern in a more elastic, softened way. Howard Raggatt, founding director of ARM, states that their intention was to use the Penrose tile and give it that “field quality in a fully three-dimensional way.”
Raggatt also adds “…this little fragment is another example of how cabbagy architecture could rule this world!”
Images courtesy of a-r-m.com.au & Architecture Australia magazine
While this addition is only one factor of the overall design, it poses the question, Is the future of architecture destined to boast green brain-like buildings and facades?
Share your opinion. What do you think of ARM’s extension to RMIT Building 22?
That's suppose to be a brain? Why couldn't the brain be red (RMIT logo) instead of green (money?/green thinking?/___)?
ReplyDeleteThough it's really interesting how the form is derived from penrose tiling. But it would be nice if these brain fragments were tillable
One thing it has been successful in though is the fact that it does become a prominent landmark on swanston st.
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