Architect: Hassell
Client: Roche Australia
Location: 30-34 Hickson Road, Millers Point, NSW 2000
Work Completed by Active Metal
Design development, structural steel slab support beams, structural steel stairs, landscape balustrades to roof terrace, structural steel awning.
Overview
As one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, Roche Australia’s primary objective is to provide healthcare solutions that deliver superior options for diagnosis and treatment. With a personalized healthcare approach that aims to improve the quality of life of patients, Roche Australia also wanted to ensure their new Millers Point headquarters was a place where employees would thrive.
The innovative ‘Rain Room’, a three-level external stair case, was designed to give them Roche team a sensory touch point with the outdoors, flooding the workplace with natural light and giving them a literal window to what is happening beyond their desks. Whether the skies are grey with rain or a brilliant blue, this roofless atrium is a centerpiece of the design with its galvanized sawtooth stringer staircases and greenery trickling down from the rooftop gardens above.
The Active Metal team were proud to be a part of this unique project, completing the staircases, balustrades and handrails in the rooftop garden and the structural steel awnings above.
