Royal Society Campus, Wellington
Studio Pacific Architecture is the winner of a nationwide competition to design a major redevelopment of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Thorndon site. The building includes a strong science education focus with exhibition areas, labs and a multi-purpose auditorium.
The Chair of the Panel, Professor Michael Keniger, said; “The winning design projects a strong identity for the Royal Society and for its future. In essence, it possesses a clarity of formal organisation that provides many possibilities for the design as it proceeds. It has immense potential to excite curiosity about science and technology and literally offers a gateway to science and to knowledge.”
Studio Pacific are delighted the Royal Society of New Zealand has selected our project as the winning design. The scheme is generated from the idea of two vessels, with a glazed box occupying the space between them as the nodal connecting point of people and ideas. The building is to be constructed using timber as the primary structural material using our significant renewable forestry resource. The ESD approach proposed for the project applies a ‘whole building’ environmental engineering approach, integrated with the architectural and structural solutions and using climate-responsive design to achieve a highly efficient green building.
Client: Royal Society of New Zealand
