TKL Architects
Portfolio Commercial
University of Southampton Science Park
  University of Southampton Science Park
Benham Campus
  University of Southampton Science Park
Kenneth Dibben House
  University of Southampton Science Park
Innovation Centre
  Enterprise Centre
Crawley
  Wessex Park
  South Point
  OCS
  Sunley House
 

Client: University of Southampton Science Park
Location: Chilworth, Hampshire
Value: £5,000,000

Innovation Centre

The site of the Innovation Centre is near the entrance to the University of Southampton Science Park and the building forms the showpiece development intended to reflect the high-tech nature of the campus. In addition to serviced, lettable spaces for research and development companies, the Science Park Management Suite will be accommodated in the building.

The building is three storeys tall, with a fourth storey containing a meeting room and ancillary spaces. The meeting room will have a panoramic view across the park and with its glass skin, will become a beacon after dark.

The building is sited adjacent a curve in the road, thereby allowing the cruciform plan to address the roads in either direction. The tiered section leads the eye up and back towards the tall backdrop of mature vegetation behind the site. A dramatic angular structure supports the external stairs and lead back to fully glazed end elevations. These contrast with the longer roadside elevations that clad in metallic panels with horizontal ribbon windows contained within a pronounced dark metal picture frames.

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