As part of the bigger plan to reorganise Quarry House in Leeds with our client Telereal Trillium, Stephen George & Partners have designed the newly-completed library resource and open learning area in what is the largest government building outside London.
The Department of Health needed a new home for its internal technical library along with an opening learning area and space for management. The only available space we had within Quarry House was in a five storey atrium attached to one of the landscaped courtyards. This semi-external area experiences significant heat loss through the single-glazed enclosure and was not originally intended to be used as an occupied workspace.
To combat this, we proposed a secondary ‘pod’ within the atrium. Constructed mainly with glass, the new enclosure allows daylight to reach the internal office areas both within and next to the atrium.
This photograph was taken by Jon Knight of Nifes Consulting Group.