Expert workplace designers, the Hassell team have transformed the existing CBA building at Sydney’s Darling Quarter South building into a contemporary, light filled natural environment supporting wellbeing and work.
Experienced in the specification of Eveneer WoodWall across multiple successful large-scale commercial projects, Hassell have maximised the characteristics of the material in the realisation of extensive swathes of lightly patterned blonde WoodWall Maple rotary veneer, forming horizontal ribbons each seamlessly wrapping the ascending layers of bulkhead to create a rhythm of staggered timber horizon lines when viewed from the atrium.
The colour and texture of the veneer bring a contemporary warmth to the vast multi-level atrium, cleverly contributing to the sense of scale and proportion and, combined with the overall material selection a balanced biophilic sensibility.
From the atrium curved avenues lead to the workplace zones reinforcing this sense of movement. Once again WoodWall Maple contributes a sense of movement- in its simple and familiar ‘marbled’ rotary cut pattern., The sweeping corridors have been expertly detailed, masterfully playing with grain direction in a syncopated rhythm of horizontal and vertical elements.
*Indesign May 29, 2023
Design: Hassell
Photography: Earl Carter