Watergardens Food Court's Aluminium Ceiling | Project

CoLAB Design Studio are the visionaries behind the stunning aluminium ceiling within the Watergardens food court. Made from many different pieces and painstakingly pieced together to create the desired effect, we were fortunate enough to be chosen to help with their adventurous vision to life.

Product
Custom

Materials
Anodised Aluminium

Applications
Feature Walls
Feature Ceilings
Facades

Sector
Hospitality and Retail

Architect
CoLab Design Studio

Builder
Gen X Group

Location
Melbourne, Australia

Completion Date
2021

Photographer
Steve Scallone

Go with the flow

The ceiling installations are transformative from day to night, providing light and shadow and a gradually changing density, moving in harmony with its surroundings. Natural light filters through the sheaths of metal with its perforations adding further texture and interest. This subtle natural light is celebrated throughout the food court’s urban landscape.

The colour palette of the space creates a sense of destination and arrival, strengthened by the monochromatic overlay overhead. The design consists of three different blade shapes, strategically placed side by side to create a stunning flowing wave formation across the ceiling.

The metal blades were manufactured to have circular perforations throughout them, from large to small, gradually changing in size down the piece of metal blade. These perforations were flipped on various blades to provide texture and difference across the design.

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This addition to the luxury tower is essential in ensuring they continue their journey towards sustainable developments with reduced carbon footprints.

The Foodcourt Narrative by CoLab Design

“The Watergardens Foodcourt design will be solid and enduring at its core, yet responsive and ever-activated by the movement of the public and the shifts in light and shadow.

The design will create an interplay of scale, lightness, solidarity and permeability, revealing an interior landscape of shifting views and perspectives, extending vertically into the volume of the architectural space.

Solidity at low level will evoke a sense of grounding; the foundations of the built form. Scale and materiality then erode and lighten, as the built forms increase in height, inviting interaction and discovery of these meandering spaces.”

Clean Lines, Bold Aluminium Ceiling