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TAC Headquarters

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Created: 09/14/12
Last Edited: 11/22/12
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MGS Architects redesigned the new headquarters of the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and provides a high quality, activated public urban space that connects the waterfront to the business centre of Geelong.
WINNER: AIA 2009 Award for Commercial Architecture
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  • 5-star Green Star Rated Office Building
    TAC Headquarters
  • Comprising 33,000 square metres of office space, retail tenancies and car parking for 340 cars this five-star Green Star energy rated building was conceived with an H Plan that provides for generously scaled floor plates aligned with the needs of contemporary organisations for flexibility, whilst providing high quality light and amenity. Interconnecting stairs further animate the office floors as they pass through a top lit central void.

    The space between the two legs of the H forms the primary internal circulation space at street level giving both tenants and the general public direct access from Brougham Street and Corio Street via an interlinking series of escalators and lifts. The volumes within this internal street vary in their architectural expression from informal at the Corio Street lobby end to more formal corporate at the double height zone of the main reception area on Brougham Street.

  • The building has been conceived as with an H Plan that provides for generously scaled floor plates aligned with the needs of contemporary organisations for flexibility, whilst providing high quality light and amenity.
  • The programme of the building allowed public interfaces to be generously managed unsecured meeting areas on ground level whilst allowing the upper level corporate zones to operate unhindered by further security divisions.
  • The building shape provide light filled circulation spaces along the central axis of the building that visually interface with the ground floor internal street linking Brougham and Corio streets.

    The through access arrangement creates a feeling of openness and visually breaks down the usual corporate hierarchy of a commercial building.

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