Modern architecture with outdoor courtyard, featuring two parallel buildings with large windows, landscaped pathways, greenery, and people walking.

Project Zeus
Harwell, Oxfordshire

KEY FACTS
  • Client: Harwell Campus

  • Project cost: Undisclosed

  • Status: Invited competition

  • Category: Workplace

Modern architectural building with vertical slats, glass doors, two trees in front, a person walking a dog on the right, and a cyclist on the left. Clear sky background.

This speculative tech industrial building is intended to be one of the most sustainable buildings of its type.It comprises a superstructure of engineered timber with charred timber cladding to minimise embodied carbon, and is designed to allow natural ventilation and lighting, whilst minimising any unwanted solar gain. The site plan brings the soft landscaping of the surroundings into the heart of the development, as a focus for tenants working in the buildings, contributing to a very high sense of well-being in the workplace.

Modern building facade with large windows, surrounded by landscaped gardens and walking paths, under a clear blue sky.

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