His brief called for site-specific responsiveness, functional innovation, storytelling, minimalist design-led product selection, and energy efficiency, a scope that began with six basic subsystems in 2020 and grew, across nearly six years from concept to completion, into 24 fully integrated subsystems spanning the entire building.
Automation Associates built the project on a Vantage control backbone, deciding against a single building-wide system in favor of individual tenancy control for reliability and inter-tenancy security, coordinated through a seventh supervisory control system in the basement that grew to manage fresh air fans, extract fans, and roof vent operation as part of the building's active fire response.
This became the company's first "Jumping the Plenum" project, a strategy for bridging the traditional divide between tenant automation systems and landlord base-build infrastructure, ultimately integrating cameras, access, lighting, HVAC, blinds, audio, and fire response across retail, commercial, and residential zones under one coordinated architecture.
Individual control systems were deployed per tenancy, coordinated through a seventh supervisory system in the basement that handled shared resources and building-wide functions like active fire response.
Compact Vantage FL-MS-MINI 360 PIR sensors in shower cubicles passed "call for fan" signals directly to the centralised supervisory system, triggering extraction automatically after 60 seconds of occupancy.
A 3CX integration plugin was implemented so any staff member could answer intercom calls and remotely release doors from their own desk phone or mobile device.
A SmokeCloak 600 fog cannon system was specified, triggerable via the alarm interface or multiple discreet panic buttons, with a silent duress input signaling the monitoring centre directly.
