Ontera has recently provided the carpet tile flooring for the new award-winning offices of Norman Disney & Young (NDY) in Melbourne. NDY are multi-disciplinary building services engineers and leaders in ESD, and accordingly wanted to gain a five star Green Star rating in Office ‘Design’, ‘As Built’ and ‘Interiors’.
Architects E+ determined that today’s office interiors need to provide a healthy and comfortable work environment, and they wanted to ensure that this office provided a model for future developments for their client.
E+ Architecture used Ontera modular carpet to fulfill a number of major interior design elements: strong linear lines in the base carpet to accentuate the length of the building; use of a dark coloured floor to provide a strong aesthetic foundation and contrast for the light coloured furniture; the use of a green line in the floor of the general offices to represent the green direction of the building and it’s occupants, as well as assisting with orientation within the building.
In addition a number of environmental qualities were critical factors in their product selection: GECA certification; ability to be reused at end of life, ability to replace worn or damaged tiles and the ability to reconfigure office space without replacing all of the carpet.
The project has already been awarded a five star rating in Office ‘Design’, and the same rating is anticipated in the ‘Interiors’ and ‘As Built’ tools. The award was accepted by the Chief Executive of NDY Ian Hopkins who described the win as a significant achievement for the group. "We have been driven by our desire to contribute to sustainability and energy conservation," Mr. Hopkins said. "We see it as important for us to not be simply providing advice in this context but to demonstrate a true commitment to the sustainability philosophy."
The project was awarded a high commendation in the recent National Interior Design Awards.