St Gabriel's School EOI - Design Engine Architects

St Gabriel’s Newbury Masterplan Stage 1 Expression of Interest Presented by Design Engine Architects with Peter Marsh Consulting April 2022 www.designengine.co.uk



Contents Forward Forward Thank you for inviting us to submit an Expression of Interest for the Masterplan of St Gabriel’s School and we hope this document provides About Us you with sufficient information and confidence that our team at Design Design Engine Architects Engine Architects supported by Peter Marsh Consulting is capable of Peter Marsh Consulting exceeding your expectations; for that is always our ambition for our Clients. We would be delighted to offer some references from other Our Team independent schools should those be required. Design Engine CV’s Peter Marsh Consulting CV’s We are considered experts in the field of education and problem solvers in the imaginative remodelling of listed and locally listed buildings and Experience those in specially designated areas. Limited examples of our experience Includes: are covered in this submission, but it is important to state that we begin Education Experience each new commission with a blank canvas. We enjoy getting to know our Experience of working within historic buildings and parkland Clients, understanding the particular personality of each institution and Experience and examples of Masterplanning within schools within the last 3 years. responding thoughtfully and creatively to your particular aspirations. This is especially the case in the independent school sector, where each is unique and we consider it a privilege to be working with these minds and continuing the historic work of former architects and planners. In this short document, we have endeavoured to cover some of what we consider the essential ingredients of your project: sensitivity of historic buildings and landscape settings, school expansion, creative re- purposing, and designing for the expectations of a 21C education generally. Uppermost in our thinking is the welfare and wellbeing of students and staff. We have recently completed the first Gold Standard WELL Certified building for University of Winchester - the West Downs Centre. This building has also recently received the WAN Gold Award for Best Global Education Building, a Civic Trust National Award and is shortlisted for the RIBA Awards. This project reaches out to the community as well as providing first-class research, teaching and learning environments - both inside and out. Also central to our work is a responsible attitude to the environment and sustainability in its widest sense, and some of our most rewarding work has come through working with our fellow consultants to breath new life into historic buildings and the fusion of new and old.

Peter Marsh Consulting 5.1 Space Utilisation Analysis – Frequency of Use (40 hours)Building LSacrgaele Theatre All 35% Peter Marsh Consulting Ltd was established in 2011 and is a client advisory and GPeunr3pe6or%asle ClasI2Ts5ro%om SSmcaallel MeSdciaulme project management consultancy helping to create places and shape futures. PMc is 34% 46% 45% now an employee owned company of specialist project managers, strategic client 46% advisors, space planners and providers of interim leadership services – Peter Marsh 29% 29% and Robert Rees. Peter Marsh. We work predominantly with providers of education and Local Authorities. Our team of directly employed staff bring a wide range of Key: Art/DT Building 45% 38% experience to our work; their backgrounds vary from education, architecture, Browning 46% 38% 42% project management, cost consultancy, finance, senior leadership, estates and contract management. Our diversity makes us think and act differently from other Classics Building 42% more traditional surveyor-led practices Frequency Drama Centre 50% Design Engine have formed a unique relationship with Peter Marsh Consulting. Together they are able to provide a full architectural masterplan design service Gym 42% 42% 43% which is supported by objective space utilisation and space need analysis as well as Junior School 54% advice around the specifics of curriculum delivery. >100% A valuable aspect of their role alongside Design Engine becomes apparent around >66% Music Building 50% 39% issues of developing a phased development strategy to ensure that demolition, decant and new-build works never leave a shortfall of accommodation with which to Key: 5.1C5So.pm2aSpcaperaiUcsteoSilnUicsAhtaiolrtiitsoosaln’BtsiAouCnniludaArlirynnesganilstyvCss–iasSFpcr–aeiecOqniutccyecenuBcpyauniolcdfyiUnsgeBuAiAlrdAtr5/iAtDnr0/A4tDrgT/%AtD0rT/<AtDr%T-/4AtDr6T/At0Dr-T/6AtD5r%T/%StDr0T/StDc%T/SDciTeSciTeSncieSnccieSncceieSncceieSBncceieSBncceiueBncceiuieBnlceiudieBnlceudiiBnlcenuFdiiBlcenugdiliBloenuGgdiiBlnuoGgdiiBrlnuGgodiriArlnuGgodiuirlBrnGgodinuitrlnG/rgoddnuirDonGgodnuCirwFnTGgodnurhFGlgondnuorFiGlBodnuiogornFGlodnuoourrwgFGlodnuoorriFGlNodnueloBorrFdGlodnuRlooerrFulGlodinuoorwrSenFSiFlodnuloorTrFldSgFlcocdnuCiiooHrrgFiNiFlidSnuihmisnoo(erAlrxFiaFlaadniotasogToorpAnrFt1FleldsisFtsuomholhrAorWcoF6ltiFtsososlrAorarFepo3llAeFFtsto:orlrDmibo7soleSloFtooloBlrDsAoolTrrFporolterIHouoCocTmru1slrImnoCioara2dlTo1dorldiBT1B1ln4SeiGrne2PC5usuuBgemCAiui1bllBSuAndd2rr7ijStAciip1uieer7lnn7StdA2irocr%Tgl9gPtD9i3darntsPe%tD51il&egnSaI2%C&gBTIc4CBTTE1hTE2CninSgnlSgagcliSsicsl4IieS7ShsTics3enS5crhic%ecnSo%3hiceecnCS9oiceeecnS%icamd5eecn3Sicp3euecn52S2ica%eecn206lic4eececn34%i4eecn-i2St%ecn-ySmec27ce282aa25%ll26le26442424M228SC245ecS44%3ahd82c422poi620a26ua25%4o34lcme8422li%24ty242L825a264r26g8A44e%24re24Sa28l24e(44m8248220%T)24h486e7%a51tT40rR711yCeL1B1o13pPo32BS04o3e1MdB7%13Cm%B4o8e3cC413fG3C5A924AuA71n27%A9i3l3d6al7A503%le9A6T29y2SB7%152shC1B7p321%i2e8asB93121a%o8Bp790151c-r%B7425a21eUeB6322%2c1tBs72319iictB3i01%ynBa131gBl271231LP24SST3M34Sp11y5C0cSaS%27p35ScS20%e0S4Se24M%4S34M%20SIT24SFIT2(4Gr42e4G0PP3q3SPMh23S%uS36Ss%cSe55S%)Sn38S%Sc3S3%Sy18S%S43S%S23S%S59S%S51%S51%52%58%44%58%63%60%50%4%% 20 deliver the educational curriculum. Classics Building 87% 23 25 Using information supplied from the School such as teaching space data, Occupancy Drama Centre 95% 87% 86% timetables, class numbers and class sizes, subject areas and sets, Peter Marsh >100% 86% 85% Consulting can not only bring confidence to the masterplan process but they can >70% Gym 75% demonstrate the means by which significant space efficiencies can be introduced to Junior School 63% the timetabling process. Music Building Since our association began, Peter Marsh Consulting have contributed to the 50%-70% New Hall Studies Building 85% 75% 89% 89% development of numerous projects including: 40%-50% Religious 89% 84% <40% SSciiexnthceFoBrumildBinugilding 63% 75% 87% Berkhamsted Schools masterplan 75% 86% 81% Berkhamsted School Sixth Form Centre 84% MiSK Schools, KSA 87% 12% The Guernsey Institute (States of Guernsey Education Department) 84% Dixie Grammar School masterplan Sports Hall Building Chigwell school masterplan. Thompson Wilson Building All

\"Their approach is endlessly patient, responsive About us and supportive. They fully engage with their client team, teasing out the multiple and sometimes •Founded in 2001 by 3 directors: conflicting aspirations. On top of this they are great fun to work with: good humoured, Rodney Graham unpretentious and very likeable.” Richard Jobson Richard Rose-Casemore Derek Neale Director of Education, States of Guernsey • Studios in Winchester, London and Exeter London •Winchester is our ‘HQ’ and is owned by founders. Newbury Winchester • 57 staff (52 technical/5 administrative) Exeter • Wide experience in Education projects across all years (masterplanning/ refurbishment/adaption/new build) including highly respected independent schools and colleges. • Specialisation of working in the context of listed buildings and historic settings, conservation areas and AONBs. • 60 +International, National and Regional Awards • Certified ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 • In-house model making and CGI’s

RESUMES Rodney Graham RIBA Key Team Members Director EDUCATION RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 1993 SUMMARY CV Portsmouth School of Berkhamsted Schools Masterplan 1, Hertfordshire. Architecture Trained at Huddersfield and Portsmouth Schools of Architecture, Seven-school phased and costed masterplan (completed 2018) RIBA Pt III Rodney is one of Design Engine’s three co-founding directors, having Adaption of Dean’s Hall (completed 2020). £1.2m 1989-1991 previously worked for Hampshire County Council Architects, ORMS New Estates Hub (decant project - currently on site). £1.8 m Portsmouth School of and Architecture PLB. New Sixth-Form Centre (currently on site) £12 m. Architecture Diploma in Architecture Within the practice Rodney plays an active role in design, but is also Radley College, Oxfordshire. RIBA Pt II interested in the wider aspects of project delivery including technical Faculty Teaching Building/Art Gallery and Social Centre - Grade II 1983-1987 and management issues. Listed Building. (completed 2014) £4.2m. Huddersfield School of Adaption of Shop to Cafe/Dining Centre (currently on site) £1m. Architecture Rodney’s real expertise is in school masterplanning; combining New Music Building (RIBA Stage 2) £8m. Degree in Architecture design and curriculum analysis to realise appropriate and deliverable RIBA Pt I designs, which consider scale, heritage, landscape and phasing Chigwell School, Essex. objectives. Rodney is currently working on the second-phase Long-term phased and costed masterplan (Grade II Listed / AONB) masterplans of the boys senior school campus for Berkhamsted New Music Building. School and is due to start work on a masterplan review for Chigwell New General Teaching Building. School. New Sports Building including Swimming Pool. New Reception Building In addition to his activities within Design Engine, Rodney is active in Years 4-6 Multi-purpose Hall. architectural education having performed the role of part-time tutor at Landscape/Sports pitches/courts etc. Portsmouth School of Architecture and External Examiner in Transport infrastructure Professional Practice at Portsmouth and the South Bank Polytechnic Dixie Grammar School Masterplan, Leicestershire. Schools.Rodney continues to teach and lecture at Portsmouth Campus-wide phased and costed masterplan (Grade II Listed). University School of Architecture. Rodney is widely travelled and is co- New Art Centre. author of a series of books called ‘Look Up’, which bring a new Reconfigured Science and Technology Building perspective on the architectural and social history of buildings New Dining/Kitchen Centre forming the high streets of England’s towns and cities. New Library SKILLS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Canford School, Dorset. Combined Cadet Force Centre (including range). • Architecture Berkhamsted School Masterplan 1B , Hertfordshire. Adaption / Extension of existing Assembly Hall • Masterplanning Senior Boys School campus masterplan. New Library linked to Assembly Hall • Project Delivery Adaption of East and West Building (Grade I Listed). New Sports Centre including Fives Courts Prince’s Mead School, Hampshire. New Drama Centre Campus-wide masterplan including detailed proposals for General teaching and Dining. (Grade II * Listed). MiSK School, KSA. Invited International competition-winning masterplan and detailed design proposal for nine-school campus. (on-site).

RESUMES Jessica Tubb Project Architect RIBA EDUCATION SUMMARY CV RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 2018-2019 Jessica first joined Design Engine as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant in Chigwell School Masterplan, Essex UWE 2013 returning in 2016 having graduated with a Distinction in her Production of a masterplan proposing various short-term and long- PG Certificate with Merit. Masters of Architecture from Oxford Brookes University. term strategies for improving the school, including parking, site Professional Practice and security and various new builds. Responsible for drawings and 3D Management in Jess has quickly developed her role as a Project Architect and has an model, as well as assisting with design and project admin. 2019. Architecture, RIBA Pt III impressive all-round abilities in masterplanning, building design, interior design, detailed design, and specification. In addition Jess has Feldon Valley Golf Course, Oxfordshire 2014-2016 developed skills in project delivery and has recently delivered the Assisting with the production of drawings for the tender package, Oxford Brookes University combined Assembly Hall adaption and new Library buildings for including technical design, GA sections/elevations and variety of MArchD in Architecture Canford School. Her flair in interior design was also recently schedules for a new build hotel and lodges. Completion 2017. RIBA Pt II confirmed with the delivery of Shoal restaurant, Winchester. Distinction Charterhouse Science and Maths Centre, Surrey Jess has a keen interest in the evolution of the 21st century city and the Responsible for assisting with concept design, planning submission 2011-2013 effect regeneration can have on its cultural and historical identity. She drawings and visualisations for new build science laboratories and Oxford Brookes University achieved a First for her dissertation during Undergraduate, which ancillary facilities. Completion 2018. BA (Hons) Architecture, focused on the transition of Southampton’s waterfront and how its RIBA Pt I future master plan could provide the opportunity to re-build the city’s Fletcherites Boarding House, Charterhouse School, Surrey fractured urbanity. Her final design project ‘The Cartography of Self’ Involved in the production of planning submission drawings and the drew connections between architecture and Psychology. In production of a digital model and visualisations. Completed 2014. identifying the ambiguous underlying mechanisms and surface features of three expressions of madness; delusion, dissociation and The Lighthouse Arts Centre, Dorset hallucination it attempted to construct a landscape for the less rational Assisting with concept design and responsible for the digital model ‘self’ on the mysterious and uninhabited island of Es Vedrà, Ibiza. and visualisations for the studio theatre facilities and landscaping. Completed 2017. SKILLS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Christchurch Pedestrian & Cyclist Bridge, Reading • Project Delivery Canford School Library, Dorset Assisting with concept design and responsible for the digital model • Building design Project architect responsible for the design, coordination and delivery and visualisations, Completed 2015. Civic Trust Commendation • Interior Design of a £3.1m new build library and the remodelling of an existing Award 2016. • Client Liaison connected building. The library building provides a modern, state-of- • Visualisation the-art teaching, learning and independent study facility with the RES HQ, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire capacity to meet the school’s current and future needs. 2018-2021. Involved in the production of concept design, interior design and planning submission drawings. 2016–2017. Shoal Restaurant, Hampshire Project architect responsible for the design and delivery of a new Lyndhurst Park Retirement Living, Hampshire restaurant located within the Grade II Listed Winchester Guildhall. Responsible for assisting with concept design, planning submission drawings and visualisations for 70 new build retirement living apartments and wellness facilities. 2016–2017.

RESUMES Toby Lindo Project Architect EDUCATION SUMMARY CV RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 2018-2019 Toby studied Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art for both St Francis Special School, Hampshire Kingston University RIBA Part 1 and 2, graduating in 2017. In 2019 Toby qualified as an London Architect at Kingston University in London. Toby further explored Project Architect/ Contract Administrator covering all RIBA stages. PgDip RIBA Part III the philosophy behind restoration in his dissertation \"Resurrection Toby undertook the role of project lead to renovate and extend St of the MAC\" after the fire at the Glasgow School of art in 2014. Francis Special School. The project had a complex phasing strategy to 2015-2017 ensure the works were undertake with minimal impact to the daily The Glasgow School of Art Prior to joining Design Engine, Toby worked at Hampshire County operation of the school. Due to the nature of the building users, extra Dip. Arch RIBA Part II Council Architects.A practice within Government that carries a health and safety precautions were put in place to ensure a safe strong international reputation for its work in designing, delivering working environment for both the staff, pupils and contractor. 2011-2014 and running schooling of all years to the very highest The Glasgow School of Art standards.During his career Toby has worked on a wide range of Theatre Refurbishment, Winchester Theatre Royal B.Arch (Hons) RIBA Part I projects around historic buildings, adult care, special needs facilities and school and college projects. The grade II listed Winchester Theatre Royal front of house areas were renovated in 2019. The proposal included a new stage viewable from Toby has a particular knowledge of sustainable design which the relocated bar area for small live performance. Back of house rooms informs Design Engine’s drive as a practice to reduce the carbon were refurbished into multi use rentable spaces. Toby was an footprint of building projects throughout their whole life cycle. His architectural assistant within a small design team developing the interest and knowledge in this vitally important area of design clients brief, design proposals and detailed design information. extends to the adaption of existing buildings as well as new building projects. Toby particularly enjoys using his creative skills to Netley Chapel, Royal Victoria Country Park reimagine existing environments, transforming spaces to serve a new or better purpose. Architectural assistant covering RIBA stages 2-3. Netley Chapel is a Grade II* listed building that sits within the registered park and Grade SKILLS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE II* listed building that sits within the registered park and garden of Royal Victoria Country Park. The project brief included conservation • Architecture MiSK School, KSA. and improvements to the existing building and to provide new flexible • Environmental Design Project Architect, leading the delivery of this new nine-school interpretation and exhibition within the chapel. To facilitate larger • Historic Buildings campus for MiSK School, Riyadh. The project was won in events and performances at the chapel, an extension was built to • Adaption international competition and is being delivered within an provide space for refreshments and toilet extension was built to • Education exceptionally fast programme.Toby’s role within a large design team provide space for refreshments and toilet facilities. • Accessible Design was to ensure that all work related to the key education spaces were • Visualistaion fully coordinated with an emphasis on creating exceptional learning • Model Making spaces. This role will continue

Peter is an experienced client advisor and project review facilitator and as a result of working at a manager with an impressive track record of helping develop creative design solutions to meet their needs. with clients, end-users, designers and contractors to include: create spaces and shape futures. • institution; • three further education colleges, working as the Peter Marsh Dr Robert Rees • Director education college; Managing Director EdD, MProf, MSc, CertEd, • PGCE, BA(Hons), CPFA, FRSA Cert HE, FSTL, FRSA, FCMI future educational modelling; and, • merged college. two higher degrees (in education and training passion for the life changing opportunities provided the development of estates strategies, the creation of track record of leadership in curriculum development awarded his doctorate in education from the projects. Peter has helped to secure and advise on the work. facilitator. strategic advisor, deliverer of transformational projects and direct classroom experience allows Peter to help Manager in Dance at an outstanding college. expectations.



Experience Design Engine’s education work spans all sectors. The following pages focus on our experience in the Schools sector, in particular the work we have executed in the Independent Schools sector.



Independent School Commissions The focus of our schools work is primarily within the private independent sector. Recently completed and current projects in the independent school/college sector (and for the States of Guernsey) include: • Radley College. Clocktower Court: Social Centre, History and Politics Faculty, Art Gallery, Design Technology Reception and Cafe. (completed September 2014). RIBA Award 2014 Civic Trust Award 2014 Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2015 •Shop cafe/dining extension. (currently on site) •Music. Extension and reconfiguration of Music School (currently at Feasibility stage) • Winchester College. Southern Campus Masterplan: Sports Centre, Design Technology, Sanatorium, Support Services, Works Dept. and Housing. (currently on site). • Prince’s Mead School. Masterplan. (completed). • Downe House School. New Learning Centre. (completed 2019). • Twyford Prep School. Masterplan including new boarding house and Junior School. (currently at planning stage). • Charterhouse. Sports centre extension and sports pavilion. (planning obtained). • Dining extension. (completed September 2104). • Fletcherites Boarding House. (completed September 2015). • New Science and Mathematics Centre. (completed September 2018). Godalming Trust Civic Design Award 2018 RIBA Regional Award 2019 • States of Guernsey Education Department. Les Beaucamps School. (completed). RIBA Award 2013 RIBA Client of the Year Award 2013 Civic Trust Award 2104 Guernsey Design Award 2014 • La Mare de Carteret School. (currently at feasibility study stage). • Dixie Grammar School. New Science Building and Multi-Purpose Hall, (currently at masterplan stage). • Berkhamsted School New Sixth Form Centre, Estates Hub and Administration Centre. (masterplan completed in April 2018 and now on Phase One of MP). • Stowe School. New Design and Technology Building. (currently at Tender stage). • Canford School. New Library, CCF Centre (completed 2019) • Chigwell School. Masterplan. (completed 2019 - preparing for update 2022)



Project Examples

Berkhamsted School Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted Schools Group is formed from five schools comprising pre-prep, prep, Throughout the development of the Master Plan the process has been supported by Project Masterplan senior boys and senior girls, and 6th-form. The group of schools form a ‘diamond’ a team of dedicated consultants including landscape architects, transport Location Berkhamsted, Berks. model and are managed to provide financial and facilities support to each other. consultants, service engineers and quantity surveyors. Construction value £70 million Floor area TBC Each site has its own unique character with the Castle Campus (Senior Boys and 6th- Many common issues have prevailed through the master plan development process Contract form TBC Form) containing the original Grade 1 listed Old School building dating back to the which are summarised below: Appointed 2016 School’s foundation in 1541. Completed Current • car parking and transportation Client contact Chris Grimsdale Design Engine were appointed through a competitive process to provide a vision • site security (perimeter) Services provided by DEA for each school site, boarding and administrative sites in terms of development of • Buildings which have reached the end of their functional life Masterplanning and Architecture to improved facilities and growth over short, medium and the longer term. • a lack of decanting space for education continuity RIBA Stage 2. • accessibility to build The process involved an extensive research period, including site visits and • Availability of contractors working space observation , interviews with key staff members and pupils. This has been followed • A need to upgrade gas/water/electric utilities by a period of in-depth design development supplemented by a series of workshops with the Principal and Vice-Principals as well as exhaustive sense- Given the importance of the Castle Campuses historic asset great emphasis has checking of space and curriculum standards throughout the process. been placed on ensuring that at the end of every phase all listed or important buildings are left in a context where their setting has been improved by the latest The masterplan process is now nearing completion and we are due to embark on a phase of work. This enables a degree of flexibility to be brought to the delivery of the series of important external consultations with Local Authority planners, conservation master plan in terms of the timing of future works which might be influenced by a officers and highways engineers. number of external factors including finances, school growth/shrinkage etc.

NORTH Total car parking 81 standard 13 disabled 4 spaces 70 spaces Sports 3 spaces 4-court hall / gymnasium / 8 no. access for Public Car Park Fives courts school coaches Parent drop-off and Staff car park deliveries 11 spaces 70 spaces Sixth-Form Centre 1 space Parent drop-off / pick-up reverse-in Including flexible theatre deliveries Boarding The High Street 72-bed en-suite spaces Coach drop-off and pick-up 3 spaces Nursery Staff /Housing car park 12 spaces Staff housing 6 no. 3 bedroom / 4 person homes Performing Arts Centre Public foyer/Flexible hall/music practice rooms/recital hall Mill Street School Resource Centre Day reception/ staff welfare / meeting rooms / Upper School Learning Resource Centre/Health and Wellbeing Centre including First-Aid. Design Technology Mathematics and Science 5 spaces New Grass Quad focal point (War memorial for 2018 Castle Street commemorations ?) New ‘Academic’ Quad Castle Campus - Masterplan 10 metres p.25 of 49 The master plan process involved illustrative phasing diagrams, in addition to detailed quantitive analysis of school accommodation, and illustrative visualisations of potential future development.

Chigwell School Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Phase Cost : £495,000 Phase Cost : £50,000 Client Chigwell School Design Engine Architects were approached by Chigwell School in 2019 to help Phase Cost : £605,000 Project Masterplan them to develop a masterplan for the future development of the School estate. The Phase Cost : £3,470,000 Location Chigwell, Essex school is co-educational and covers from pre-perp to sixth form. Phase Cost : £545,000 Construction value TBC Phase Cost : £1,145,000 Floor area TBC The masterplan process included thorough site analysis, interviews with members of Contract form TBC staff and heads of department, analysis of the curriculum, a phasing strategy, a high Appointed 2019 level cost plan undertaken by Gardiner and Theobald, and a space utilisation study Completed Current produced by Peter Marsh consulting. Client contact James Rea Services provided by DEA Key priorities of the project included provision for a new teaching block, sports hall Masterplanning and Architecture to and swimming pool in addition to reconfigured vehicle access to the site, and new RIBA Stage 2. pedestrian orientated square at the heart of the campus. Pre-Application discussions with Epping Forest District Council were held in 2020 and from this process the Sports Centre has now progressed. We are currently discussing the next phase masterplan. The masterplan included seven implementation phases

Site plan of the final phase of the masterplan

Twyford School Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Twyford School Twyford School are a renowned co-educating not-for-profit preparatory school for Project Masterplan boys and girls aged 3-13, situated on a limited site on the outskirts of Winchester. Location Winchester, Hampshire The site is in a conservation area and several of the historic buildings are listed. Construction value 12million Floor area TBC Design Engine were commissioned following a rigorous competition process to Contract form TBC create a long-term vision and project-specific strategy for their site. Immediate needs Appointed 2016 include a better 80-bed boarding facility and improved pre-preparatory school. Completed Current Client contact Charles Gillow Of particular focus is the need to resolve a very difficult traffic management issue, Services provided by DEA which currently brings significant functional and health and safety issues to the site. Architecture, Masterplanning , Landscape design As with all projects we have worked very hard with the school’s Senior Management Team to establish a robust masterplan into which feed a series of localised development strategies, intended to overcome the difficult traffic issues and facilitate the phased delivery of specific projects, whilst maintaining uninterrupted operation of the school. The delivery of the various building projects requires a phased approach carefully arranged around the school calendar. The masterplan was presented to the local authority as part of Pre Application dialogue in 2017. Illustrative visualisations of potential future development.

Site security concept diagrams Illustrative overview of the campus masterplan

Chaterhouse School, Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Charterhouse School Charterhouse is distinguished as a Neo-Gothic ‘campus’ School; but one currently Project Masterplan blighted by vehicles and parking. Our brief was to create a pedestrian friendly Location Godalming, Surrey campus, where wayfinding is clear, parking areas are concealed, and site Construction value N/A management is discreet. Three generations of the famous Gilbert Scott family have Floor area N/A designed buildings on the site. Contract form Design & Build Completed N/A A new landscape zone is described around the original nineteenth century buildings Client contact Emma Humphreys (including the Grade II* Chapel and the Grade II Main Building), within which cars Services provided by DEA are excluded with the exception of emergency vehicles. Architecture, Masterplanning This move returns the School to the safe collegiate atmosphere intended with the move from London in 1872, and gives back dignity to the splendid buildings and landscape where the Founder’s Tree can once again take centre stage. The masterplan document produced for the school described a long-term vision for the campus. Some projects have now been completed (Dining Hall, Fletcherites boarding house. Science and Mathematics); some are in design (Queens Sports Centre); some are longer-term propositions. All came about through an ongoing dialogue leading towards a balanced strategy on future curriculum, planning and funding.

4 Extended QSC Alternative Location for Maintenance 10 Potential site for New Teaching Building 4 New Changing Pavilion & Domestic Services 1 Reception and Visitor Parking 2 Improved Science Facilities New All Weather Pitches 12 Fletcherites Dining Hall 5 Renovation and Extension to Art Block 9 Renovation of New Houses (Link to DT) New Car Court 3 Improved Music Facilitie (Option 3) New Staff Parking Court 6 Anthony Caro Sculpture Court Car Free Zone 3 Improved Music Facilities (Options 1 & 2) 8 Peter May Pavilion 7 Founder’s Chapel Eton Fives Refurbished 2 Tennis Courts Relocated New Maintenance & Domestic Services Dept 11 Ben Travers Theatre 49

Chaterhouse School, Science & Mathematics building We are delighted with our new Science and Mathematics building and the new inspirational spaces within which to work and learn. Design Engine and the PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Contractor have worked hard to meet our briefing needs and have delivered a top class facility of which the school is rightfully proud” Client Charterhouse School Following our original competition win in 2010, the updated scheme for the new Emma Humphreys, Estates Bursar, Charterhouse School Charterhouse Science and Mathematics Centre was submitted for planning Project Science & Mathermatics approval in October 2015. The School’s aim is to provide pupils with the best Not only does this roof articulate a building form which is contextually (STEM) facilities of any school in the UK and revolutionise the way these subjects are appropriate, but also provides a focal point to the vista from the primary entrance taught at Charterhouse. to the school on Prince’s Drive, as well as providing the appropriate form to deal Location Godalming, Surrey with the internal and functional requirements of the Chemistry Labs within. Construction value £5.7 million The new centre provides: Floor area 1800 sqm • 50% more space overall Contract form Traditional • A flexible and modern environment of the highest quality Appointed 2010 • The co-location of Science and Mathematics for the first time, fostering inter- and Completion September 2018 Client contact Emma Humphreys intra-departmental collaboration based around a shared hub where pupils can Services provided by DEA meet, interact and access resources Architecture • A Lecture Theatre with retractable seating and the latest audio-visual aids Awards RICS Awards 2019 capable of hosting lectures, science demonstrations and other School events. shortlisted - pending The site lies towards the North Eastern edge of the campus. Characterised by the historic architecture and setting, the buildings here are predominately Gothic Revival / Neo-Gothic in nature, dating back to the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Our scheme, featuring three steeply pitched roofs, representing the 6 Chemistry Labs below, creates a subtle but important architectural link between the original campus which is heavily reliant on these forms, largely designed by the Architect Philip Charles Hardwick.

New Science and Mathematics Centre showing relationship to existing Gothic campus.

Winchester College Southern Campus PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Winchester College Winchester College’s current indoor sports centre located on its Southern Campus dates from the 1960’s and is no longer capable of supporting the range or quality of Project Southern Campus spaces required to deliver the College’s sporting programme. Masterplan & Capital Projects The College launched an invited competition to masterplan the whole of the Location Winchester, Hampshire Southern Campus which Design Engine won in 2015. The task was to not only to create a phased development strategy for a new sports facility to ensure that existing Construction value £35 million sports facilities could continue during replacement works, but also to address a TBC number of other capital project requirements within a single holistic masterplan solution. Floor area 10,500 sqm This included a new sanatorium, design and technology centre, support services Contract form Traditional building, works department and masters houses. The site is in a Conservation Area and is a particularly sensitive part of Winchester, given the proximity of the Itchen Appointed 2015 Valley, so a key consideration has been the physical impact of the large-volume buildings such as the sports hall, whilst ensuring that architecturally the buildings are Completed August 2019 sensitive to their remaining neighbours. Client contact Simeon Cox The planning application for this major project was submitted in December 2016 and work commenced on site in 2019. Services provided by DEA Architecture, Masterplannig, Interior Design, CA Building and landscape studies

View from Kingsgate park Staff residences on Kingsgate Road The new sanatorium

Downe House School, Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Downe House School Following an invited design competition in 2013, we were asked to develop a far- Project Masterplan reaching masterplan for Downe Hose School, which extended out from their Location Newbury, Berskhire ‘academic’ campus site into adjacent playing fields and woodland. This commission Construction value N/A led in turn led to the commission and construction of the first new building in the Floor area N/A masterplan - a new Learning Centre. Contract form Traditional Appointed 2012 The masterplan component of our commission was essential in establishing how the Completion November 2018 wider campus should be developed in order that the new Murray Centre could be Client contact Alasdair Heath accommodated in the preferred central location identified. Additional future Services provided by DEA development opportunities were also explored. Masterplanning, architecture In addition to ensuring that the building functioned well with the topography of the site and with the adjacent buildings, there was a need to review the wider vehicular The Murray Centre in its context movement strategy. Key was the reorientation of the main access road into the site having identified that if it remained, it would blight the potential envisaged building to become a focal point for the school. By redirecting the vehicular traffic flow closer to the main entrance into the site the building could enjoy a new vehicle-free forecourt and enable servicing of several buildings to be made less visible and impactful. A close study of the pedestrian movements around the site helped to inform the most appropriate location for entrances to the building.

The complete masterplan site layout

Downe House School, Murray Centre PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Downe House School The brief for the Murray Centre was for a visually and experientially inspiring building Project Murray Centre that would sit at the heart of the campus. Location Newbury, Berskhire Construction value £5.1 million The all girls School is unique in that it originated as a convent and has mediterranean Floor area 1166 sqm influence. All buildings are a of white stucco and we have introduced white stone Contract form Traditional and concrete to sit comfortably in its sylvan setting. Appointed 2012 Completion November 2018 The Centre is a physical and visual draw into the campus from the main entrance, Client contact Alasdair Heath and reinforces connections to the surrounding woodland which gives the School its Services provided by DEA unique setting. The three-storey building sits into the natural topography; therefore Architecture, Interior Design, Lead minimising its height at the main entrance approach. Designer, Contract Administration Awards RICS Awards 2019 The building plays a central role at Downe House, both in terms of the shortlisted - pending accommodation that it will provide and as a focal building in the wider context of the school campus: the new ‘Heart and Soul’ of the school. The Murray Centre opened in 2018 and has been a huge addition to the campus: offering a library, cafe, auditorium, teaching space and private study rooms.



This is a modern reinterpretation of the Victorian redbrick tradition, and it is handled with due deference to the scale of its surroundings. It is intelligent and unfussy.” Hugh Pearman The RIBA Journal. December 2013 Radley College, Clocktower Court PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Radley College At Radley College, a significant new building has been inserted into a central Following analysis of the evolution of the site it became apparent that this project campus space, replacing an earlier theatre building. The architecture of this £4.2 would be come a central focal point within the campus. For this reason we explored Project Clocktower Court - Social million scheme not only has to reconcile the numerous existing buildings that the civic potential of the project and pushed the most social function towards the Centre, History and Politics Faculty, surround the site, including the adjacent Grade 2 Listed Rackets Court, but it also existing court already occupied by the dominant Clocktower. Art Gallery has to provide fluid connections internally between these buildings (4 no. in total) of varying internal floor heights. As with any project where a knitting of the fabric of the estate is required, we Location Radley, Abingdon considered how the new building would be approached by pedestrians and where A key consideration was to achieve a building of a timeless quality, which sits and entrances should be, where new external and internal routes could be incorporated Construction value £4.2 million functions in harmony with its neighbouring buildings. Clocktower Court consists of to open up new opportunities to connect various parts of the campus and how the academic teaching space of ten classrooms, a new art gallery and a social hub building could glue together a number of disparate existing buildings without Floor area Approx 2,100 sqm including catering facilities. Because of the building’s position in the site it also has to leaving an outcome which would give an over-bearing scale. address three different external spaces, each possessing very different functions and Contract form Traditional JCT qualities. Appointed May 2009 The principal elevation faces the most civic space within the College and therefore has been treated with a double-height colonnade of brickwork. This elevation also Completed September 2013 reconciles the scale difference between buildings which site either side. On one side, the Listed Grade 2 Rackets Court and on the other, a non-listed but period Client contact David Anderson building which serves as the Fives Court. The other key elevation on the building is (Estates Bursar) east-facing and fronts onto a garden space. This elevation also takes the form of a colonnade, but this time single storey, with teaching classrooms over. This provides Services provided by DEA a covered route into the rear of the building and access to the new art gallery. Architecture, Interior Design, Lead Designer, Contract Administration Awards RIBA Award 2014, Civic Trust Award 2014, Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2014 Ground Floor Plan



Les Beaucamps School, Guernsey PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client States of Guernsey Design Engine were selected in 2003 to join the States of Guernsey’s new obvious environmental benefits of natural light, natural ventilation and protected Education Department framework of architects to deliver their new schools and colleges replacement space. As well as providing excellent teaching rooms, particular attention was to be programme. Les Beaucamps High School was completed in 2013 and followed by a given to the external areas between buildings, circulation and social space. Project Les Beaucamps School new school proposal - La Mare de Carteret, which received full planning and was In addition to the school building, which is located on the sloping site overlooking developed to RIBA stage 4. Currently we are working on extension projects to two spectacular sea views to the West. A separate sports building to the East, includes a Location Guernsey high schools. swimming pool, sports hall and gymnasium. The two buildings are connected by a covered link and sit either side of the sports pitches and a central Multi-Use Games Construction value £30 million A key challenge to the design team was the need to deliver the school whilst Area. The project was split into two construction phases, the School Building and maintaining the existing school in a fully operational state. The project was split into the Sports Building. Floor area Approx 8,650 sqm two phases. Phase One saw the construction of the main teaching spaces and demolition of the original school and Phase Two delivered the new sports centre Attention has been paid to the overall design of the building to minimise energy Contract form D + B and external landscaping over the footprint of the original buildings. consumption and improve the internal environment within the school. This has been achieved through the following design principles: Appointed 2003 The sloping site was also a challenge but presented an opportunity to create linked courtyard spaces, developed to give protection from the extremes of the coastal • Natural ventilation Completed September 2013 environment which the school looks over. In addition to winning an RIBA Award in • Thermal mass 2013 and a Civic Trust Award in 2014 the client was also awarded RIBA Client of the • Natural daylighting Client contact Ashley Dupre Year in 2013. • Air source heat pumps • Solar hot water heating Services provided by DEA The Brief • Heat recovery Rainwater collection Masterplanning, Architecture, The States Education Department’s brief was to provide a teaching environment for • Promotion of cycling Interior Design, Lead Designer, 660 students on a site where the existing school building had to remain in operation • Awareness of energy use during construction. Educationally a courtyard arrangement was briefed to give Awards benefits including a safe inclusive environment, subliminal way-finding, better control of environments for management, teaching and wellbeing as well as the RIBA Client Of The Year Award 2013, RIBA Regional Award 2013, Civic Trust Award 2014, Guernsey Design Award 2014

The exterior of the building adopts a neutral palette, brown brick and dark zinc roofs and chimneys. The effect is to dissolve a quite large building when seen from a distance. Closer to it unfolds as a carefully choreographed architectural experience wherein the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. It is a building to be experienced rather than looked at, providing an exemplar for school procurement and provision that puts most UK practice to shame.” RIBA Award Citation 2013



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