RMIT DESIGN HUB SEAN GODSELL ARCHITECTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH PEDDLE THORP ARCHITECTS

摘要

A tall, glittering Glomesh box and a low screened block frame an austere sloped public plaza, which covers an underground exhibition space. It simultaneously recalls Egyptian tombs, Jean Nouvel's Arab World Institute and the cold tech of movie spaceships. This is archaic architecture, despite its metallic sheen. RMIT Design Hub is a difficult, uncompromising building. Where many workplace buildings are being designed around new methods of working, new ways of organizing, connecting and coming together, this building states that these activities only need a bare stage - an austere framing. Contemporary design thinking prioritizes process over form and styling and preconceptions. This project unasks many of these currently popular questions and poses others instead. For this reason it is challenging and interesting.