Charles Street Car Park

Part of the masterplan for Sheffield's Heart of the City redevelopment, this multi-storey car park is conceived as a significant civic building in its own right. Arranged as a single continuous ramp, the car park floors are hidden behind a screen of folded, anodised aluminium panels. Each panel is formed as a square, with two folded triangular sides, and mounted on vertical mullions in a composition of four different orientations. This simple system results in a variety of tilted faces and open ends which produce a changing pattern of light reflectance, enhanced by the use of colour on the inner faces.