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Project Description
RMIT’s Info Corner, known for its green awning at the corner of Swanston and La Trobe Streets, is being refurbished complete with a new fifth floor and rooftop canopy resembling a green brain.
The canopy design is based on Storey Hall ’s geometric Penrose tiling. The Penrose tiles - discovered by mathematician Sir Roger Penrose who visited Storey Hall in 2000 - are two simple geometric shapes, 54 and 72 degree rhombuses. The tiles can cover an infinite, continuous surface in non-periodic patterns.
Project architect, Adjunct Professor Howard Raggatt, from ARM said: “With the canopy and the new façade we wanted to create a soft Penrose tile, a kind of primordial Penrose. The surfaces are shaped using CADCAM moulds, cast in fibreglass and painted high gloss. The new rooftop pavilion should look like a green brain.”
RMIT’s Info Corner, known for its green awning at the corner of Swanston and La Trobe Streets, is being refurbished complete with a new fifth floor and rooftop canopy resembling a green brain.
The canopy design is based on Storey Hall ’s geometric Penrose tiling. The Penrose tiles - discovered by mathematician Sir Roger Penrose who visited Storey Hall in 2000 - are two simple geometric shapes, 54 and 72 degree rhombuses. The tiles can cover an infinite, continuous surface in non-periodic patterns.
Project architect, Adjunct Professor Howard Raggatt, from ARM said: “With the canopy and the new façade we wanted to create a soft Penrose tile, a kind of primordial Penrose. The surfaces are shaped using CADCAM moulds, cast in fibreglass and painted high gloss. The new rooftop pavilion should look like a green brain.”
RMIT Info Corner - The Green Brain
