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 3,000 square meters of working, meeting, and socializing spaces.
Adaptive reuse reflects Kosloff Architecture’s belief that it is our collective environmental responsibility to reuse, rather than discard.
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-story 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.
Due to its 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.
And its 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.
Despite these challenges, Building 64 North results in a vast improvement in the environmental performance of this asset.
Project Details
Project Size – 3,725 m2
Site Area – 3,725 m2
Completion Date – 2020
Building Levels – 2
Project Details
Architecture
Kosloff Architecture
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Derek Swalwell
Derek is an architectural and editorial photographer from Melbourne, Australia. His name is synonymous with the photographic representation of the architectural landscape in Australia and beyond.
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