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Photo credit - Jack Hobhouse
The UK's first non-domestic building to achieve Passivhaus Plus standard, Bicester Eco Business Centre provides workplaces for small businesses and co-working space in one of the most sustainable buildings in the country.
Description
In synergy with the pioneering eco-town’s masterplan, the business centre is an exemplar of sustainable architecture and construction.
To meet the Standard, the building generates as much energy as it consumes, with a renewable energy strategy complementing the fabric-first approach. One of the building's key features is the triple height top-lit atrium space, allowing daylight into the depth of the plan, and reducing excessive use of artificial light and energy. Externally, vertical timber fins not only give the building a unique identity, but act as a large brise-soleil that reduces unwanted heat gains in summer and provides solar shading.
This vibrant new workplace, positioned on a gateway corner of the new ‘local centre’, has been sensitively designed to be a distinctive building that forms a characterful bookend to the street, without detracting from the surrounding residences and mixed-use developments.
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