The restaurant incorporates a slightly warmer colour palette with vinyl ‘ timber ’ planks and bronze pendant lights breaking the grey tones .
Design Challenges The stringent requirements for the laboratories to remain sterile and controlled environments made service routes challenging . No water pipes were allowed in the ceiling void , and , despite a raised floor being inherited from the casino design , services were not allowed to be housed within that zone either . All drainage pipes had to be cast into concrete . Electrical and mechanical
services come from above and a maintenance catwalk had to be installed in the ceiling void to eliminate the requirement for maintenance access from laboratories . As fire suppression sprinklers could not be installed in laboratories , 2-hour fire rated zones had to be created , necessitating the installation of fire curtains where glazing was required in fire rated walls .
The decision to use glass panels extensively to divide spaces had other implications that needed to be considered as well . Some of the panels needed to be extremely high , particularly where there were overhead viewing areas above
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