东安格利亚大学企业中心丨英国丨Architype

Firm： Architype

Type： Commercial › Office Educational › University

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2015

SIZE： 10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET： $10M - 50M

The Enterprise Centre at The University of East Anglia, dubbed by the press as the UK's greenest building, has been designed and delivered to achieve the Passivhaus standard and a BREEAM outstanding rating. The new university building aims to encourage new sustainable businesses from graduates who emerge from its academic research programme and those involved in activities within the wider Norwich Research Park.

The Concept

The concept comprises a new building and landscape that is an exemplar of low embodied energy and carbon construction technologies, through the use of natural and bio-renewable materials sourced through local supply chains. The Enterprise Centre is a recognised centre of excellence at a European level, providing world-class facilities through its sustainable design and use of materials.

With an innovative use of low-carbon materials - including external thatching completed and maintained by local craftsmen - the award-winning building is a model in elegant, sustainable design and has recorded four consecutive DEC A ratings.