Astral Towers
A new office building next to Gatwick Airport between existing 1980s mirror glass blocks. An old planning permission provided for a building on this site, but office needs and standards have changed since the 1980s, and mirror glass blocks with huge air-conditioning plant farms are no longer promoted as the ideal.
The aim: to create good pedestrian spaces in a noisy flightpath environment, to increase floorspace and to make humane offices amongst the mirrors. These analysis drawings show a design solution which makes sense of the requirements of bus and car based commuting, limits the new building's energy needs, and provides humane outside space between the buildings.
Sector: Commercial
Location: Crawley, UK
Proj/Arch: Marcus Beale
Job/Arch: Marcus Beale
Status: Unbuilt
Year: 2006
The aim: to create good pedestrian spaces in a noisy flightpath environment, to increase floorspace and to make humane offices amongst the mirrors. These analysis drawings show a design solution which makes sense of the requirements of bus and car based commuting, limits the new building's energy needs, and provides humane outside space between the buildings.
Sector: Commercial
Location: Crawley, UK
Proj/Arch: Marcus Beale
Job/Arch: Marcus Beale
Status: Unbuilt
Year: 2006
