ADAPTIVE REUSE

The UEM academy was conceived in response to the client's desire to adapt an existing workshop into a Centre of Excellence consisting of an IBS Training Centre and Academy, displaying innovative use of Industrialised Building Systems able to meet a tight construction schedule.

The building was designed to allow flexibility and adaptability of programmes in meeting the needs of the present without compromising the future. It is an attempt to create an aesthetic of heterogeneous forms working as a cohesive whole. The design points to how diversity and differences may coexist in the urban culture of today.