The Development and Innovation Centre of Modularity

You can con­struct a buil­ding from a vari­e­ty of mate­ri­als – bricks, panels or who­le modu­les. In The Deve­lo­p­ment and Inno­vati­on Cen­t­re, this con­cept is taken a step further by using and fil­ling the spa­ce between the modu­les. The pur­po­se of The Inno­vati­on Cen­t­re was to free modu­lar archi­tectu­re from the strict­ly right angle.

The archi­tects under­li­ned the who­le con­cept with colour sche­me – all the modu­les are mat­te black insi­de and hide com­ple­te faci­li­ties from the tech­ni­cal room, throu­gh chan­ging rooms, kit­chen, sani­ta­ry faci­li­ties, to mul­ti­me­dia equi­p­ment or the showro­om. On the con­tra­ry, the spa­ces between the modu­les cre­a­te a lar­ge open spa­ce in a con­tras­ting whi­te colour with the use of per­fo­ra­ted she­et metal – the design is based on the look of a labo­ra­to­ry. In order to work fle­xi­bly with the spa­ce, the­re is an inge­ni­ous sys­tem of whi­te cur­ta­ins insi­de, which can be used to chan­ge the spa­ce into indi­vi­du­al offi­ces or open it up for con­fe­ren­ces. Two high clea­ran­ce pyra­mids top­ped with sky­li­ghts also sup­port cre­a­ti­ve acti­vi­ty. These pyra­mids rise from the gre­en roof.

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