Ingenuity Centre The University of Nottingham

Building area 2,200m2

Contract period 2014 – 2016

Project value £4.4m

Won – as part of a national design competition – the Ingenuity Centre houses local and national start-ups and small enterprises in areas such as Big Data & Digital, Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace and Energy.  Companies based here are able to take advantage of The University’s leading centres of excellence and the ready supply of high-quality postgraduate students.

Bond Bryan created a simple – and relatively deep plan building form – that has maximised the limited space available for the project in order to control the overall height of the building and create efficient floor plates.  An atrium heart-space dominates the centre of the building’s interior, enabling daylight to penetrate the floor plates and allowing easy visual links all across the building – joining up the building visually as well as collaboratively. Externally, and through careful consideration of the fenestration/cladding pattern, texture and colour, the design reinterprets a more traditional built form, thus creating a welcoming and exciting building –  a typology that is designed to clearly reflect the aspirations of the University.