© Peter Bennetts

(Peter Bennetts)

 © Peter Bennetts

(Peter Bennetts)

Agilent技术公司希望我们设计一个能够改变员工工作方式的构建环境：帮助他们更一致、更快地发明、测试和完善想法。他们还希望这座建筑能代表光谱-光的研究。STIC的每个方面-空间品质、立面设计、细节设计、家具规格、照明，甚至通风设计-都是为了打破“一切照旧”，并激发创新。这座建筑是一系列用于思考、测试、知识共享和生产的微观环境；它被一层“面纱”包裹着，为员工、合作者和公众提供不断变化的光影体验。

Agilent Technologies wanted us to design a built environment that would change how their people work: to help them invent, test and refine ideas more consistently and quickly. They also wanted the building to represent spectroscopy – the study of light. Every aspect of the STIC – the spatial qualities, façade design, detailing, furniture specification, lighting and even ventilation design – has been designed to disrupt ‘business as usual’ and provoke innovation. The building is a series of micro-environments for thinking, testing, knowledge sharing and production; wrapped in a ‘veil’ that offers constantly shifting experiences of light and shadow to employees, collaborators and the public.

 Ground Floor Plan

该设计反映了Agilent技术公司的团队规模、学科组合和组织文化。多层的，适合居住的立面为小型团队和个人工作创造了壁龛。开放计划的研究空间被仔细地布置成小街区，这些吊舱是技术丰富的虚拟团队、站立会议、小组工作或集中个人生产的环境。与开放式研究空间直接相邻和视觉连接的是一系列高度灵活的实验室环境。定制的适应性家具和维修系统可以随着发明的发展而改变；转移到专门的实验室进行测试；甚至在安全允许的情况下进入工作场所。

The design reflects Agilent Technologies’ team sizes, disciplinary mix and organizational culture. The multi-layered, habitable facade creates alcoves for small team and individual work. The open-plan research space is gently divided into small neighbourhoods by the careful placement of pods which are technologically rich environments for virtual teaming, stand up meetings, small group work or focussed individual production. Directly adjacent and visually connected to the open-plan research spaces are a series of highly flexible laboratory environments. The bespoke adaptable furniture and servicing systems can be transformed as inventions develop; transferred to specialist laboratories for testing; and even come into the workplace where safety allows.

 © Peter Bennetts

(Peter Bennetts)

“城市广场”是该建筑的社会中心，并将其与更广阔的校园连接起来。城市广场内有博物馆的楼梯、咖啡厅、沉陷的庭院、世代-Y空间以及聚集的正式和非正式会议空间，它采用了比研究空间更丰富的材质调色板和几何图形来创造一种永恒和不朽的感觉。在三层楼的空间里，有很小的空间供个人和团体合作、放松和会面，同时也为整个校园提供了一个丰富的社交空间，让他们聚在一起庆祝过去和未来的成功。

The ‘Town Square’ is the social heart of the building and connects it to the broader campus. Containing a museum stair, cafe, sunken courtyard, Gen-Y space and clustered formal and informal meeting spaces, the Town Square employs a more richly textured material palette and geometry than the research spaces to create a sense of permanence and monumentality. Within the three-storey volume there are small spaces for individuals and groups to collaborate, relax and meet whilst also offering a rich social space for the entire campus to come together to celebrate past and future successes.

Architects SKM

Location 679 Springvale Road, Mulgrave VIC 3170, Australia

Category Institutional Buildings

Project Architect Anna Maskiell

Workplace Strategy + Project Director Philip Ward

Design Director Clinton Murray

Project Director Andrew Kings

Area 4200.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Peter Bennetts