The Eco Business Centre brings flexible shared workspace to eco-town North West Bicester, in what ended up being the UK’s first non-residential Passivhaus Plus accredited building forming the centrepoint of a wider eco-town development, the building sets a benchmark for others to follow.

One of the key drivers behind the scheme was to create happenstance interactions. In the years since its completion the building has become a hub for the new community that continues to grow around it.

Internally, suites of open plan or cellular offices share meeting rooms and kitchens, which are arranged around an open central atrium walkway and which become impromptu collaboration areas with access to external balconies.

See project architect Matt describing the scheme for the Architects DataFile Magazine here and giving a tour to university students for the Passivhaus Institute here.

(completed as Project Architect at Architype)