Arts University Bournemouth Innovation Studio Building, AUB Poole Architecture Photos, Architect Peter Cook
Arts University Bournemouth Innovation Studio, UK
4 November 2021
Arts University Bournemouth Innovation Studio Building
Design: Professor Sir Peter Cook Architect
Location: AUB Wallisdown campus, Poole, Dorset, southern England, UK

Photos © Richard Bryant
Arts University Bournemouth Innovation Studio in Poole
The building, as with the completed Drawing Studio, encourages innovation and creativity that is especially useful to the creative industries. Such initiatives have become hallmarks of the Arts University, which has particular links into the film industry and the performing arts as well as architecture, graphic design, etc. The Innovation Studio acts as a catalyst for growth, providing a base for micro and small businesses to develop, mainly involving recent graduates, supported by experts in the universities and businesses at a local, national and international level.

The detail of the architecture makes particular reference to the self-identification of the groups within : deliberately offering each group a differently shaped window from the next and a series of ?eyelid? shutters with which a group can signal its mood of privacy or exposure.
The site consists of a small infill between the administration University House block and the main Workshop block. With direct connection through to the workshop, the building deliberately breaks down the categories of ...