Jasmax Ltd
Project Location:
Christchurch
Categories:
Commercial Arhcitectural Excellence, Interior Fit-out
Project Description:
The proposed tram link through the CPIT’s City Campus demanded that a corner of the existing early 1990’s building be removed. The client saw the project as an opportunity to announce their presence more prominently and to completely reconfigure and refurbish their teaching café, bar and restaurant operations and kitchens.
A sinuously curving, cedar weatherboard-clad plane slips alongside a massive pre-cast concrete wall and a canopy floats between them. These elements announce the new public entrance. The timber screen contains a new café.
Cedar veneers wrap internal joinery elements; solid cedar trims are used along wall edges as skirtings and to define more intimate spaces within the restaurant. A substantial cedar-clad pivot door transforms the spaces either connecting or closing off the café and restaurant to each other.
The new building envelope has been insulated to very high levels and the use of local and renewable materials was prioritized, leading to the selection of cedar cladding and pre-cast concrete thermo-mass panels. Timber elements are a key feature of the sustainability strategy and continue throughout the interior.