Company Headquarters, 036328

This project is a corporate headquarters for a large optical product manufacturer whose requirement was to accommodate research and development facilities within the same building as the regular office-based management and marketing teams which comprise the components of the company. The research and development facilities are set on the upper floors of the building and comprise small units have teams of between six to between four and 10 people. The testing facilities require the ability to exclude the daylight and shutters are able to be deployed from within the building rather than rather than external baffles or shading which would have required them to be deployed electrically, with associated maintenance responsibilities. The use of internal shutters was used to avoid the high level the maintenance required of the that would otherwise be required with maintenance if up maintenance if these if these items were mounted externally. The lower parts of the of the building comprise a test of prototype products, which of which are evolved on the on the ground floor.