Isaac Tu spike

Building design · TBC

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Render of a five-storey white building raised on slim columns under a clear blue sky, a fine perforated screen over its upper floors and a single storey of glass at the corner

A five-storey building lifted on columns, wrapped in a perforated screen, with a daylit stepped interior, studied in two site schemes that each grow in a second phase.

A building lifted off the ground on columns, wrapped in a fine screen, with a stepped, daylit interior.

Site and phases

Two schemes were studied for the same site. In each, a first block is built on the corner and a second block is added later.

Aerial render of a pale block on a corner site with a lawn behind it and a car park to its right, among faint white neighbouring buildings and trees
The same aerial view with a second, taller block added on the lawn behind the first
Aerial render of a pale block at the edge of a lawn with a long car park beside it
The same aerial view with a second large block added next to the first, where the lawn was

Outside

Render of a five-storey white building raised on slim columns under a clear blue sky, a fine perforated screen over its upper floors and a single storey of glass at the corner
The building from the corner
  • Render of the front of the building: a perforated screen over four floors, a recessed glazed entrance bay at the centre and columns at ground level

    The front facade

  • Render of the narrow side of the building on columns, with a screen of horizontal panels and a lawn at its foot

    The side facade

  • Render across a lawn and a car park to a pale glazed building beside a darker block, with a tall building behind and a tree branch across the top

    From the street

Inside

Interior render of a tall white atrium crossed by beams and columns, with stepped seating on both sides, people talking in the middle and bars of sunlight across the floor
The atrium
  • Interior render of a long white corridor with tall blue-framed windows on one side, one person walking away, columns and slabs above

    A corridor along the glass

  • Interior render of broad white steps used as seating beside a window onto trees, with two people on the steps and one standing

    Stepped seating by a window

  • Interior render of white steps rising beside a large column and a grey wall, a woman holding a tablet and two people on the steps

    The steps and a column

  • Interior render looking through a frame of beams and a glazed wall to a car park, with a blue pool of water at the lower level and people on the stepped floors

    A void with a pool

  • Interior render of a long gallery with a window wall on the right, stepped floors below and people on the balcony and the lower levels

    The upper gallery

Plans and sections

Placeholder panel for the floor plans, which are still to be added
Placeholder: floor plans
Placeholder panel for the sections, which are still to be added
Placeholder: sections