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Metier3 Architects
Ngunawal-Canberra, ACT, Australia
05/2011 – 11/2011
(Construction Completed 2012)
The Australian National University's facility hosts the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and their next generation peta-scale supercomputer. The building accommodates the computing needs of the NCI with
co-location of other ANU computing capability.
The Facade design is based on the calendar year the building has 366 standing seam panels one of which is painted red to represent the extra day in leap year.
The facility contains a 1,000 sqm of technical white-space, configured to accommodate the next 2 generations of HPC and 1,000 sqm of office accommodation, allowing the co-location of NCI staff and elements of the ANU's IT Infrastructure, in environmentally sustainable offices.
Role: team member, design development, contract documentation and contract administration
Team: Paul Bennett, Blair Laing, Joanne Hutchinson, Kholissile Dhliwayo, Erin Kyne, Allen Lucini
Award: ACT Australian Institute of Architects award public architecture 2013
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courtesy of Metier3 Architects
(C) Drawings by Kholisile Dhliwayo, Joanne Hutchinson, Erin Kyne