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The Enterprise Pavilion, at the Arts University Bournemouth, nurtures a dynamic young creative community. Business start-up units are housed in modular timber boxes that are slung within lightweight steel frames. These and a high-spec digital imaging facilities house, which takes the form of an austere timber cube, are arranged around an atrium that acts as a covered outdoor square, sheltered by a tent-like fabric canopy roof. Delicate access galleries and bridges carrying circulation and services wrap around the business unit wings and span the atrium voids, lending the building form a complex layered filigree appearance.

The Mechanical & Electrical Services were designed to be in tune with the Architect’s vision of the building and its diverse uses and occupants. The interior cube incorporates functionally expressed services providing comfort cooling and ventilation.

Designed by Architects Lee Fitzgerald, the Enterprise Pavillion was awarded the Poole Pride of Place Award 2005.

The Business Start-Up units are serviced by underfloor heating and one of this country’s first automated natural ventilation solutions built into the exterior walls. This system provides user-controlled ventilation during the day and automatic purge ventilation during the night. The accommodation is linked by a naturally ventilated atrium street with interconnecting services and lighting integrated within the architectural steel walkways spanning the atrium, and leading to a tented exhibition area with automatic passive smoke ventilation system.