FMG Office Building

The FMG Office Building sits adjacent to the Memorial Avenue Gateway bridge, at the entrance to Christchurch International Airport campus. The site for the building forms a prominent corner of the Agri-Export office precinct, which includes the ANZCO and PGG Buildings. The FMG building forms the final stage of the office precinct master plan, which includes the three building developments, landscaping, and site facilities. Included as part of the design scope is a central ‘pocket park’ space which incorporates shared bike parking facilities and communal shelter structures. The client brief was for a building, which has a strong relationship to its site context as an important point of entry to the Airport. The extruded building form is derived from its relationship to the adjacent motorway and Memorial Ave corridor. The folded façade and angled sunshade screen provide a sense of movement and an effect of parallax as you transition from the off-ramp to slower pace of the airport precinct. The ground floor is set back to allow the form to hover above the ground plane and the undulating landscape forms below. The building is part of a sequence of events and forms that relate to each other, evoke dynamism and movement, to enhance the experience of arrival.