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India Buildings
Architect:
Falconer Chester Hall
Award Type:
Irish Architecture Awards
Location:
UK
The successful adaptation of India Buildings in sets a very high standard for workplace design in a listed city centre commercial building, built almost 100 years ago. The client’s brief required their workplace to be designed: ‘to class-leading inclusive and accessible design standards, to ensure that it can be easily used by a wide and diverse range of people.’The building provides environments that are based on ‘need’ rather than ‘status’, allowing staff to work in the way they feel is best for them, whether at a traditional desk, a quiet work area, an enclosed private room, or an open collaboration area. It cleverly solves issues for neuro-divergent people through the provision of natural lighting, restorative, and neutral spaces for people to take time out from stressful or upsetting situations and sensory muted spaces where visual and tactile distractions are minimised.The architects have skilfully balanced the, sometimes, conflicting requirements of universal design, conservation, security and health and wellbeing with well-designed interventions informed by the need to achieve ‘equality of experience’ for all building users.
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