{"id":467,"date":"2019-04-16T15:38:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/nt-awards\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T05:26:35","slug":"mph-hq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/nt-awards\/mph-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"MPH HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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MPH HQ is the offices and work site for one of Alice Springs\u2019 medium-sized building contractors. The owner\/client wanted a vehicle that would showcase their capabilities, and a project to occupy some of their staff during times of uneven work flow.<\/p>

The core of the building is a large steel work shed, operating as a dynamic space that changes from day to day as materials and vehicles for worksites come and go. A long open edge of the shed faces due north, providing shade in summer and sun penetration in winter, offsetting the sub-zero temperatures that builders face in early morning starts.<\/p>

A difficult site orientation led to the main visual feature of the fa\u00e7ade \u2013 a series of large enveloping sunhoods, designed carefully to exclude 99% of direct sun from the problematic SSW aspect. The sunhoods are crystalline, geometric shapes formed from the same Colorbond sheet as the big shed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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