Pixel is one of Melbourne and Australia’s most significant and ambitious projects. Pixel is Australia’s first carbon neutral office building, generating all its own power and water on site.
Pixel is a ‘Future Office’ - a prototype of the commercial buildings that will emerge when a carbon constrained environment demands a greater focus on energy efficiency.
As a prototype, Pixel enables an analysis of the ongoing implications of new technologies in the commercial building sector.
The most publicly visible element is Pixel’s colourful facade. A simple but intricate assembly of zero waste, recycled colour panels providing maximized daylight, shade, views and glare control.
The panels are supported by the Living Edge spandrels which create shading, external access and grey water treatment as well as providing immediate personal greenery to every office floor.
The facade wraps continuously around Pixel creating a vibrant and unique identity.
Pixel is aiming to achieve the highest environmental rating ever for buildings using the US LEED, UK BREEAM and Australian Green Star environmental rating schemes.
To put that into context, there are approximately 740,000 buildings registered worldwide under those three rating schemes, and Pixel would be at the forefront of all of them.
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