Melrose Health | BENT Architecture
Designed by BENT Architecture, Melrose Health involves the transformation of a typically mundane and static office/warehouse building into the dynamic new headquarters for Melrose, a national health product company based in outer-eastern Melbourne. The street façade of the existing two-storey office block was eroded via the introduction of an organic tubular steel structure that literally connects the site?s landscape to the building fabric. Part sun-shade and part landscape arbour, the structure liberates existing north facing windows that would otherwise cower from the hot summer sun and provides a conduit for greenery to permeate the office interior, enlivening the workplace.
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The division between office and warehouse was also eroded, creating a more immediate connection between the various operations of the Melrose Health company. It fuses warehouse, administration and landscape into one cohesive whole. The result is a project that embraces the Melrose ideology of whole body health by creating a workplace that is responsive to the natural environment and engaged with the processes within. The project encourages its occupants to connect and engage with the external environment and each other in a meaningful way. Photography: Brendan Finn
Openable windows were inserted to facilitate natural ventilation, and modular garden beds and joinery components comprising recycled materials and building off-cuts were inserted to define co-working areas, quiet spaces and coll...
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