Storey Hall & Green Brain, Royal M Institute of Technology
My take on the Royal Melbourne University of Technologies Storey Hall (1995), and Green Brain (2010) The Universities entrance point on Swanston and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne.Trains up to 200 cims as part of your larger university campus or tech college.
“The Storey Hall redevelopment was part of a masterplan, developed by ARM Architects. Its interior and façade incorporate Oxford mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose’s ‘fat and skinny tiles’, which explore the concept of tiling an infinite area without ever repeating the pattern exactly. Until the 1960s, mathematicians thought that you needed 20,426 different tiles to achieve this, but in the mid-1970s, Penrose did it with just two: a fat one and a skinny one with exactly the right proportions.
The façade tiles are made from bronzeThe cave-like entrance references other arches along Swanston Street (Melbourne’s main civic axis) including under Princes Bridge and the front of the National Gallery of Victoria. There’s also a nod to the iconic Luna Park gateway through Mr Moon’s giant mouth”
“The Green Brain got its nickname for obvious reasons. It integrates with Storey Hall to offer a more diverse range of conferences and other continuing professional education activities than Storey Hall could on its own. The building was originally owned by the Singer Corporation sewing machine company.
The bulbous façade forms are also derived from Penrose tiles, but in soft smoothed and rounded 3D.Behind the distinctive Green Brain skin, the conference suite has floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular city views. This flexible space seats 100 people in lecture mode and 50 in conference mode. An operable wall can divide it into two conference rooms for 20 people each”
5×4 size
Tris 3,237
2048×2048 px texture map
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