Watergardens Food Court

“This large food court warranted a finishes palette of multiple schemes, with sets of colour combinations creating important way-finding cues, and denoting precinct boundaries,” says Anna Drummond, director and co-partner at CoLAB. “The design created an interplay of scale, lightness, solidity and permeability, revealing an interior landscape of shifting views and perspectives, extending vertically into the volume of the architectural space.”

“We selected stone and terrazzo to evoke a sense of grounding, one that would frame the pathways of community life, like foundations of a city around which laneways flow. As the built-forms extend upwards in height, the scale of materials shifts to open up views across the space,” says Anna. “Fibonacci’s terrazzo was key to developing these schemes, with Assemblage, Act Three and Carmelita creating the low-level finish upon which each scheme was built. The coloured aggregate of each terrazzo offered reference points for all other finishes; against which we matched tile selections, stone selections and powder coat colours.”