The 3750 sq m flexible office and commercial laboratory accommodation builds on the success of the two previous science park innovation centres and completes the Metropolitan Cathedral campus. Innovation Centre 3 merges with Innovation Centre 1 at the upper two levels for efficent internal circulation. It is due to complete next spring.
Ryder Architecture’s simple yet elegant design is based on two contrasting but complementary elements – a sharp-edged, rectilinear block that cantilevers out to face the campus’s main paths and a flowing organic form that snakes across to form the link with IC1. The cantilever box will be solidly clad in dark-grey linear rainscreen panels, while a contrasting mix of clear and translucent/ frosted Reglit panels will clothe the curvature and fluidity of the organic form.
