LITERATURE

CASE
STUDY
ABIRAMI K.A
ROLL NO:3
TECHNOLOGY Architects: BDP
Area:

AND INNOVATION 25000 m²

Year:

CENTER 2015

GLASGOW,UK
The Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) for the
University of Strathclyde is a collaborative research and
conference centre in the heart of Glasgow.

• Provide office,conference facilities and laboratory

space for students.
• Acadamic and industry experts to work jointly
• Collaborative meeting spaces
• Exhibition areas

MAJOR DESIGN CONCEPT

• to create a landmark building
• flexible and fully accessible with easily re-configurable
spaces
• highly environmentally sustainable.
The building is a 8 storey,steel framed wedge shaped
structure occupying a sloping brownfield site

The TIC has a deliberately expressive form, but rather

than form making for its own sake, the building massing is
a result of consideration of the brief and the site context.

TIC is higher along the North frontage (rising to 8 storeys)

to take best advantage of diffuse natural light and to create
a civic presence on George Street. The building drops in
scale to 7 floors towards the South to tie in with existing
neighbouring buildings.
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The TIC is triangular in plan to exploit the

available site area. This form results in a Laboratory spaces
building that is a unique intervention into
the urban matrix, whilst respecting its
surroundings.
auditorium

The building form is relatively

simple. The triangular ring of
accommodation is highly flexible
and efficient in terms of circulation
and service space requirements.

The building provides

• specialist laboratories
• research spaces
• collaborative meeting spaces for around
900 staff
• conference facilities
• 450 and 150 seat auditorium
Both of the elevations accommodating the
offices culminate at the wedge’s tip that
overhangs a double height space in front of
the TIC’s main entrance.
This same double height space that extends
internally from the entrance all the way along
the ground floor western elevation.

The basement will house a 150 seat auditorium

and a series of secured laboratories hence
covered with 400 mm thick reinforced shielding
walls and a moveable lead roof
A large open space above the auditorium’s roof will have a
glazed roof to form a central atrium allowing natural daylight to
penetrate the building’s interior. Natural daylight is afforded to
the great majority of spaces, either via the external façade or
by way of the central atrium space.

External
facade

Central
atrium
space