This is the collage I made, showing the main ideas about the programme and character of the project. The Energy Awareness Centre is implemented into existing buildings.

1. ‘The receiver’ – responsive surface.
* symposium theatre
* small lecture rooms
* exhibition / awareness space
* foyer / lobby
* canteen / café
* shop
* reception / entrance spaces

2. ’The core’
* control rooms
* machinery
* services
* BIOMASS supplies in
* entrance to ‘the roots’

3. ‘The roots’ – underground growing spaces
* BIOMASS research rooms
* BIOMASS growing rooms
* training spaces

4. ‘The transmitter’
* research rooms (environmental energy sources)
* building / prototyping space
* testing space
* storage space
* data rooms
* waste disposal

5. ‘The battery’
* research rooms
* products out
* preparation space
* BIOMASS storage
* input / output space – testing rooms
* ‘THE OVEN’ furnace – experimental burning
* data rooms
* chimney / stack