South Australia’s State Commission Assessment Panel has approved the development of the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre at Lot Fourteen, the research, business and culture hub taking shape at the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Designed by local firm Baukultur, the building will sit next to the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre designed by Woods Bagot and Diller Scofidio and Renfro. Lot Fourteen is built on the land of the Kaurna people.
Baukultur has designed the building to be viewed “in the round.” It will comprise a podium and tower form, with floor plates shifting on different levels.
“The tower is broken down in its visual mass by a smaller intermediate floor at every third level and the slight shifting of the floor plates between these intermediate floors,” a design statement from Baukultur reads. “It is enclosed with a simple and elegant modular facade that is visually consistent on all building faces while responding to the solar orientation of each elevation.”
“Visual and physical connection and interaction are an important part of its design and the ‘slipped floor plate’ format with interconnecting voids and stairs strike a balance between maximizing horizontal connectivity within each floor and between floors.
“They also bring light down through the building to the ground floor spaces.”
The Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre is partly funded under the Adelaide City Deal, with the federal government contributing $20 million to the project.
The proponent says it will be home to tenants in “space, defence, hi-tech, creative industries and education sectors.”
Oxigen is the landscape architect for the project. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2021.
