Canford School LibraryDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS \ JAN 2018 Expression of Interest
Contents 1 Introduction 2 Practice Profile 3 Team Members 4 Practice ExperienceDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 1
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CANFORD SCHOOL LIBRARYIntroductionFrom the information provided by the School three prominent enhancing the user experience is equally important. It should be capable ofconsiderations emerge from the description of the project and the site supporting all users needs, students, staff and visiting users alike; at anchosen for the library project. individual and group level. A forward-looking highly serviced lbrary will prepare students, in particular older students, for the next stages of theirThe site context is highly sensitive and any designs will have an influence on education and/or careers.the adjacent listed buildings and non-listed, but historically valuablebuildings within its presence. The brief suggests a physical connection to the Finally, the nature of the library environment must be functional and flexible,current Assembly Hall which demands both boldness and sensitivity in the enabling a degree of spatial re-organisation to accommodate a wide varietysame instance. Experience of designing and delivering buildings in and of activities, whilst managing conflicts of noise and visual disruption. It shouldaround historic asset is therefore a vital skill which will be a key demand of the be capable of supporting all users needs, students, staff and visiting usersproject. alike; at an individual and group level. The challenge of creating a range of positive and all-inclusive learning environments under one roof brings both aThere is a need for the selected design team to demonstrate an challenge and great opportunity to the project.understanding of what a modern library facility means and what specialqualities it could deliver for the School. Having a working knowledge of how We feel that we have the full capabilities and experience to provide anlibraries function is a critical requirement, but also appreciating their potential outstanding service to meet these key criteria and are pleased to offer theto harness the Schools ethos and values whilst directly influencing and following information in response to your request.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 3
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Practice Profile A brief insight into who we are and how we work.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 5
• Established in 2001.• 38 People in our Winchester Studio.• London studio opens January 2018.• 50 + Awards.• 14 RIBA Awards.• Majority of projects in the education sector, particularly the Independent School Sector and Further and Higher Education.• Significant Master Planning/architectural experience in historically important environments. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 6
PRACTICE PROFILE“ Design Engine Architects are a very professional and dedicated company. The Directors and staff are very competent and really do consider the client’s needs. Some architectural practices are only interested in the design (and what the design can do for their practice). Design Engine really do want the client to have a building they can afford to own as well as one that delights them.” Kerry Hutchings Head of Major Projects, Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeDesign Engine Architects The following activities characterize the practice’s approach to Design CommunicationRichard Rose-Casemore, Richard Jobson and Rodney Graham all projects: In addition to the production of drawings and CGI’s, a uniquenessformed Design Engine Architects as a Private Limited Company in of the practice is the use of physical models (produced in-house)December 2001. Site analysis to explore and explain a project. These are valuable tools when We undertake very careful analysis of the site which we use to lead describing ideas to user groups and stakeholders, as they bring aDesign Engine's projects are currently designed and delivered us to the development of potential site-specific concepts arising clarity to a proposal that drawings sometimes cannot.from its Winchester studios by a dedicated team of staff who offer a from the brief.first-class quality driven service to its clients. The practice has a Award-winning deliverywealth of experience working on new buildings but also within Design by dialogue The practice prides itself on the delivery. As much investment issensitive historic settings and with construction budgets ranging We like to develop our designs through close dialogue with all given to the process of technical design and productionfrom £0.5 million - £85 million in value. project stakeholders. This is a key part of our service and is never a information and contract administration as is given to client time-limited exercise. We consider that the client briefing process briefing, scheme design delivery and the making of planningDesign Engine's work holds the synthesis of high quality design is a key part of the relationship-building process and consequently applications. Design Engine’s staff receive the best trainingand sustainability as a core value. Many completed projects have Design Engine invests significantly in this aspect of its service. possible in order to deliver outstanding projects for it’s clients.been honored with awards, including RIBA Stirling Mid-list, anRIBA International Award, the LEAF (Leading European Architects Director-led Designs Lessons learntForum) Sustainability Award and numerous RIBA, Civic Trust, RTPI Design Engine projects are always director-led from inception to Design Engine considers the delivery of a building to be a journeyand BCI awards and commendations. completion. Rodney Graham will be the director who would lead for all parties concerned and the practice considers it vital that this commission for the Canford School Library project. once it is completed an opportunity is made to reflect on theThe Practice has received 50 Design Awards since 2001. Currently positive and negative outcomes of the project, in order tothe practice employs 38 people which includes 24 qualified Team approach continuously improve its service.architects, 8 assistant architects, 1 Interior Designer and 1 Graphic Design Engine likes to work closely with its client and consultantDesigner. team alike and to date have enjoy long-term and fulfilling working relationships with the many clients and professionals it hasThe practice is opening a London studio in January 2018. encountered.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 7
PRACTICE PROFILEStakeholder & CommunityEngagementDesign by dialogueWe enjoy the process of sharing the design journey with the client body, and value theircontribution towards the emerging proposals. Feedback is recorded and reviewed by the designteam.We invest time in preparing presentations, drawings and models tailored for specific audiences.Communicating our ideas clearly through three-dimensional physical models, as well as computergenerated models (CGIs) makes this process efficient and focused. Stakeholder engagement We would consider stakeholder engagement and consultation to be a vital part of the design process. Opening up design ideas to those people who may be affected by implementation of proposals brings value to the project. This includes the local community, staff and students where appropriate. The process of community engagement can take many forms. A very successful approach is to organise an exhibition of design proposals and to invite attendees to take part in the important activity of providing written feedback which can then be used to inform the on-going design process.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 8
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Team Members Design Engine’s proposed team for Canford School LibraryDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 11
RESUMES Rodney Graham RIBA Director SUMMARY CV MORE EXPERIENCE Rodney is one of Design Engine’s three co-founding directors, having St Vincent College Housing/Academic Masterplan 2017 previously worked for Hampshire County Council Architects, ORMS Project Director responsible for the design of circa 130 homes / and Architecture PLB after training at Huddersfield and Portsmouth academic campus design on the site of the current sixth-form college Schools of Architecture. located in GosportEDUCATION Within the practice Rodney plays an active role in design, but is also Prince’s Mead School, Kings Worthy, Hampshire interested in the wider aspects of project delivery including technical Project director responsible for an extension to a Grade II* listed1993 and management issues. Rodney has expertise in working within the building, Prince’s Mead primary school offers new teaching, dining andPortsmouth School of context of historic buildings and was responsible for the delivery of a drama facilities in a historic setting.Architecture small but complex ‘insertion’ of a new reception space between twoRIBA Pt3 Grade 2 Listed buildings (Examination Schools and Ruskin School of Oxford Examination Schools Extension, Ruskin School of Art Art) for Oxford University. Other education projects include the The extension and complex intervention of the Examination Schools in1989-1991 current masterplan for the Berkhamasted Schools Group and order to rationalise accessibility and provide new accessibility andPortsmouth School of previously the multiple award-winning Clocktower Court for Radley facilities. (see right).Architecture College in 2014.Diploma in Architecture Bradbury Place Housing, AndoverRIBA Pt2 In addition to his activities within Design Engine, Rodney is active in Design and delivery of a new town centre-based, fully accessible architectural education having performed the role of part-time tutor at housing scheme for Enham Charity. Completed 2014,1983-1987 Portsmouth School of Architecture and External Examiner in Housing Design Award: Richard Feilden Award.Huddersfield School of Professional Practice at Portsmouth and the South Bank PolytechnicArchitecture Schools. Currently Rodney teaches and lectures regularly at Redbridge Lane Housing Masterplan, SouthamptonDegree in Architecture Huddersfield School of Architecture and sits on the Winchester and The development of 350 new dwellings within the city ofRIBA Pt1 Eastleigh District Design Review Panel. Rodney is widely travelled and Southampton. is co-author of a series of books called ‘Look Up’, which bring a new perspective on the architectural and social history of buildings William Street Quarter Housing Development, London forming the high streets of England’s towns and cities. Rodney is a The development of a new housing scheme for the London Borough of certified BRE Code for Sustainable Homes Assessor. Barking and Dagenham £20m.SKILLS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Visitor Centre, Hill Close Gardens, Warwick New visitor centre development within an existing park area of Hill• Architecture Berkhamsted Schools Group Masterplan 2017 Close Gardens.• Masterplanning Project Director responsible for the design of five no. school FORCE Environmental Sustainability Award 2007.• Client Liaison masterplans for this independent school in Hertfordshire. The project• Detailed Design involved extensive site analysis, space auditing and curriculum analysis• Specification writing as well as detailed masterplan design to RIBA Stage 2• Sustainable Design• Project Delivery Clocktower Square, Teaching Facilities, Radley College• BRE CfSH Assessor New teaching spaces, art workshops, and event spaces with a number• Practice Management of refurbishments and connections to existing listed buildings.• ISO14001 RIBA Award 2014, Civic Trust Award 2014, Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2014. Completed 2013. (see projects pages).DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 12
ROLE ON PROJECTRodney would take the role of Project Director and will oversee allaspects of Design Engine’s engagement in the project includingappointments, client liaison, resources and programming, briefing,design development including attending meetings andpresentations, planning negotiations, assisting with consultantteam and contractor selection (where required), overseeinginformation production and negotiating with contractors (valueengineering etc.) and ensuring that the site works are properlyadministered. RIBA Stages 0-7 inclusive will be followed.The drawing and image above and right are from one of Rodney’sformer projects for the University of Oxford and involved the carefulinsertion and physical connection of two listed buildings (TheExamination Schools and the Ruskin School of Art) by infilling aredundant external yard space with a new entrance, stairs, lift andw.c.s; linking the numerous disparate levels of the buildings toeither side.Great care was taken in designing the physical connectionbetween new and old to ensure that the character of the listedbuildings was not over-whelmed by the newly inserted structure.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 13
RESUMES Anna Ross RIBA ArchitectEDUCATION SUMMARY CV MORE EXPERIENCE2014 Anna studied at Newcastle University for both RIBA Part 1 and 2, Buro Happold, Bath (£1.1m)RIBA Advanced Diploma graduating in 2005. Her final years work went on to win numerous Responsible for detailed design of external works package for a newin Professional Practice prizes including a RIBA President's Medal Commendation Award for reception, café, knowledge centre and glass-fronted meeting rooms;Course, (RIBA Pt3) her dissertation, which examined how texts written about buildings all organised around a new internal two-storey ‘street’ and connected affect the way they are understood. to a generous balcony over the river. Completed 20082003-2005Newcastle University Anna has experience working at many different sectors and scales, Feldon Valley Golf Club, Lower Brailes (£6.8m)Postgraduate Degree in from large Higher Education projects to one-off houses. After joining Responsible for detailed design and delivery of a hotel building in theArchitecture (RIBA Pt2) Design Engine in 2005, Anna played a key role in the delivery of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. RIBA Award winning Student Centre for University of Winchester.1998-2001 Following this, she worked from the outset, on the redevelopment ofNewcastle University Oxford Brookes University, working from the masterplan, briefing andDegree in Architecture concept design stages through to construction, where she was(RIBA Pt1) responsible for a number of packages including the library and highly technically challenging food-hall facades and roof. Following this, Anna worked on the concept and design development for two one-off houses within sensitive rural sites, gaining Planning Permission for both. Currently Anna is responsible for the detailed design and delivery of a 13 room hotel in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, as part of a larger masterplan.SKILLS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE• Architecture Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building• Client Liaison Involved in brief development with client, masterplanning and• Detailed Design concept design of Library building, including Facade and Roof of• Specification writing library and food hall.• Graphic Design RIBA regional award for Building of the Year and Sustainability Awards,• Brief Analysis RIBA National Award, Stirling Mid-list, (£130m)• Sustainable Design• Facade Design University Centre, University of Winchester (£6.5m)• Co-ordination Responsible for the design, delivery and on site design development• Masterplanning of a number of packages including facade and roof packages. Completed 2007 RIBA Award.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 14
ROLE ON PROJECTAnna would be the Project Architect for the Canford SchoolLibrary. She qualified in 2014 and since this period has beenoverseeing the delivery of the Feldon Valley Golf Club facilitieswhich involves not only new-build works but also the adaption ofexisting buildings. Anna has great client liaison skills and is veryadept at working with the client to tease out the precise briefingrequirements at all stages of design for a project.Prior to qualifying Anna worked closely with the client on thebriefing of the John Henry Brookes Building’s library space atOxford Brookes University. Through this she developed anexpertise in library security, book-stack ratio calculations andtechnology.The images below and right are from this project which Anna hadsignificant involvement in.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 15
RESUMES Oliver Moore RIBA Senior AssociateEDUCATION SUMMARY CV MORE EXPERIENCE2006-2007University of Westminster Oliver studied architecture at Cardiff and Westminster Universities, progression of new public square and energy centre projects toPost-Graduate Diploma graduating in 2005, and registering as an architect in 2007. He has redevelop complex existing campus at Holloway. Ongoing.Architectural Studies gained professional experience in a number of internationalRIBA Pt3 architectural practices, including Johnson Pilton Walker (formerly Arts University Bournemouth, Design Studios (£6.4m) Denton Corker Marshall) in Sydney, as well as Wilkinson Eyre Photography (£3.6m) & Student Services building (£2.1m)2004-2005 Architects in London, before joining Design Engine Architects in 2011. Project Lead & Architect responsible for the design and delivery of aCardiff University masterplan including new Photography building and Student ServicesDiploma in Architecture Oliver has a broad range of experience across design stages from building, and refurbished Design studios. Completed in 2015, theseRIBA Pt2 competitions to on-site delivery, including working with a range of buildings have received recognition through clients, from charities to universities, to commercial and housing RICS and RIBA Awards.2000-2003 developers. He has a detailed understanding of the complexity whenCardiff University working with existing buildings, including listed structures such as a Bournemouth University, Masterplan Review & DevelopmentDegree in Architecture major refurbishment of the Bodleian Library for Oxford University. Client consultation and stakeholder negotiations to review existingRIBA Pt1 Oliver has excellent communication skills, and a particular interest and brief and develop strategic design, rules and codes informing the experience in helping clients and building users to identify and future investment in re-development of diverse university campuses.SKILLS develop a design brief for a project during its early stages. He enjoys consulting with the project stakeholders throughout the design Clocktower Square, Teaching Facilities, Radley College (£4m)• Architecture process to ensure the success of the final building in use. Architect within a team responsible for the design and delivery of new• Masterplanning teaching spaces, art workshops, and event spaces with a number of• Detailed Design Oliver currently works on a number of building design and refurbishments and connections to existing listed buildings.• Specification writing masterplanning projects, including London Metropolitan University, Completed in 2013.• Client Consultation Bournemouth University, and has recently completed delivery of a RIBA Award 2014, Civic Trust Award 2014, Oxford Preservation Trust• Lead Consultant suite of buildings for the Arts University Bournemouth, including Award 2014. Completed 2013.• Sustainable Design Photography facilities, a new Student Services building, and adaptive• Project Delivery re-use of student residential as new design studios. Other projects he Charterhouse School, Masterplan Development, Surrey has been involved with include independent schools, a Radley Architect responsible for the detailed brief taking to establish strategic College teaching building and a Charterhouse School masterplan. design, rules and codes for the future design development of this historic school in Surrey. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Bodleian Library (now Weston), University of Oxford (£50m) London Metropolitan University, ‘J-Block’ extension and (for Wilkinson Eyre Architects) Project Architect for a team responsible refurbishment project, (£16m) for the extensive consultation, planning approval, technical and Project Lead responsible for the development, detailed design and detailed design of major new public, readers, and staff facilities, and delivery, of new teaching, study and dining facilities within refurbished highest grade secure book storage for a complete restoration and existing structure and additional new-build two storey roof extension. redevelopment of Grade 2* listed building in historic Oxford context. Planning approval in 2017, anticipated completion 2019. Completed in 2015. Multi-award winning and Stirling Prize Finalist. London Metropolitan University, Campus masterplan Concept proposals, extensive stakeholder consultation, planning negotiation and strategic implementation reviews. DetailedDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 16
ROLE ON PROJECTOliver has a great deal of experience with older buildings and wehave included him on the team to benefit from this. His role will be‘light touch’ but highly valuable in the role of Design Reviewthrough the process of design development RIBA Stages 0-4.The drawings below and right were produced by Oliver when heworked on the New Bodleain Library project ( Now the WestonLibrary) for the University of Oxford.He has a particular experience in the technology of buildings of allperiods and expertise in how new and existing elements are fused.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 17
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Practice Experience A selection of Design Engine’s education projects for schools and colleges.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 19
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Les Beaucamps High SchoolPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient The States of Guernsey Commissioned by the States of Guernsey Education Department, Les Beaucamps control of environments for management, teaching and wellbeing as well as theEducation Department school is not an independent school. However with smaller class sizes and a wide obvious environmental benefits of natural light, natural ventilation and protectedProject Les Beaucamps High curriculum offer, in a number of ways it mirrors the independent school sector. space. As well as providing excellent teaching rooms, particular attention was to beSchool given to the external areas between buildings, circulation and social space.Location Guernsey Design Engine were selected in 2003 to join the States of Guernsey’s newConstruction value 30 million framework of architects to deliver their new schools and colleges replacement In addition to the school building, which is located on the sloping site overlookingFloor area 8650 sqm programme. Les Beaucamps School represents the first of two major school spectacular sea views of Cobo Bay to the West. A separate sports building to theContract form Design & Build replacements (The second one being La Mare de Carteret, which is currently at RIBA East, is to include a swimming pool, sports hall and gymnasium. The two buildingsAppointed 2003 Stage 3). are connected by a covered link and sit either side of the sports pitches and a centralCompleted August 2012 Multi-Use Games Area.Client contact Ashley Dupre A key challenge to the design team was the need to deliver the school whilstServices provided by DEA maintaining the existing school in a fully operational state. The project was split into Attention has been paid to the overall design of the building to minimise energyArchitecture, Masterplanning, two phases. Phase One saw the construction of the main teaching spaces and consumption and improve the internal environment within the school. This has beenInterior Design demolition of the original school and Phase Two delivered the new sports centre achieved through the following design principles:Awards RIBA Client Of The Year and external landscaping over the footprint of the original buildings.Award 2013, RIBA Regional 2013, • Natural ventilationCivic Trust Award 2014, Guernsey The sloping site was also a challenge but presented an opportunity to create linked • Thermal massDesign Award 2014 courtyard spaces, developed to give protection from the extremes of the coastal • Natural daylighting environment which the school looks over. In addition to winning an RIBA Award in • Air source heat pumpsDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 20 2013 and a Civic Trust Award in 2014 the client was also awarded RIBA Client of the • Solar hot water heating Year in 2013. • Heat recovery Rainwater collection • Promotion of cycling The Brief • Awareness of energy use The States Education Department’s brief was to provide a teaching environment for 660 students on a site where the existing school building had to remain in operation during construction. Educationally a courtyard arrangement was briefed to give benefits including a safe inclusive environment, subliminal way-finding, better
“ 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 2013Central courtyard looking towards the seaDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 21
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Charterhouse School Science & MathematicsPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Charterhouse School Following Design Engine’s original competition win in 2010, the updated scheme Not only does this roof articulate a building form which is contextuallyProject Science & Mathermatics for the new Charterhouse Science and Mathematics Centre was submitted for appropriate, but also provides a focal point to the vista from the primary entranceLocation Godalming, Surrey planning approval in October 2015. The School’s aim is to provide pupils with the to the school on Prince’s Drive, as well as providing the appropriate form to dealConstruction value £5.7 million best facilities of any school in the UK and revolutionise the way these subjects are with the internal and functional requirements of the chemistry labs within.Floor area 1800 sqm taught at Charterhouse.Contract form Traditional New courtyardAppointed 2010 The new centre will provide:Completed (On site)Client contact Emma Humphreys • 50% more space overallServices provided by DEA • A flexible and modern environment of the highest qualityArchitecture • The co-location of Science and Mathematics for the first time, fostering inter- and intra-departmental collaboration based around a shared hub where pupils can meet, interact and access resources • A Lecture Theatre with retractable seating and the latest audio-visual aids capable of hosting lectures, science demonstrations and other School events. 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. The 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.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 24
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Charterhouse School DiningPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Charterhouse Design Engine were commissioned by Charterhouse School following an invited In recent years Charterhouse School has offered a Day House, ‘Fletcherites’, for non-Project Dining competition with five other practices, and this project forms one of a series identified boarding sixth form girls and boys. This has meant that the current new CentralLocation Godalming, Surrey within the new masterplan for the School campus. Dining Rooms are insufficient in size and layout and needed extending to meet theConstruction value £600,000 current need.Floor area 300 sqm The original 1972 dining rooms were designed by architect Richard Gilbert-Scott,Contract form Traditional son of Sir Giles Gilbert-Scott, as part of the construction of the iconic 1970s ‘new The only available site for development was to the south of the existing dining roomsAppointed 2008 houses’ accommodation. The unique design of the original dining hall building is a where there was an existing hard landscaped area (a former reflecting pool). The siteCompleted 2010 result of the long established tradition of pupils being allocated a Housemaster, is close to existing boarding houses and sits within a classified greenbelt area ofClient contact Emma Humphreys which in turn has resulted in each house enjoying its own dining hall. A large central land.Services provided by DEA kitchen efficiently serves these seven dining rooms. The brief for a new dining hall toArchitecture, Interior Design, Lead serve the new day house had to fit the required number of pupils within the space. The planning constraints were such that the visual amenity of the greenbelt was notDesigner, Specification Writer to be affected by any development on the site. With this in mind the scheme The concept behind the building is driven by observing a close hierarchy between needed to be sensitive in nature both to its surrounding landscape and the existing the striking existing dining rooms roof form and the open and attractive nature of the building to which it adjoined. greenbelt site. The new roof geometry served as a creative element of the project but was also a deliberate echo of the architectural roof play of the existing building, The materials used in the construction of the building are also integral to the creating a sense of individuality to the space held below. concept, using a simple palette of materials to form an external colonnade/covered walkway. This colonnade also provides a sizable overhanging cover providing The project was delivered on time within a strict 26-week construction period. The natural solar shading to the south façade. Zinc and aluminium cladding are used completion of the dining rooms was needed in time for the arrival of the new day extensively as the external cladding material and draw a distinct line between boarding pupils. The extensive refurbishment of the original dining rooms will be existing and new. Larch panels within the curtain walling soften the façade and relate carried out in 2013. directly to the open landscape to the south, drawing it in to the building plan.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 26
“ The extension is of great value to the school providing much more than a dining room - it has opened up the space for hospitality use presenting an up to date image and vastly improving the offer.” Emma Humphreys Estates Bursar, Charterhouse SchoolDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 27
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Charterhouse School Queen’s Sports CentrePROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Charterhouse School The project involves extension and internal remodeling of the original 1995 Queens A diagonal brick and glass wall running North-East to South-West provides theProject Sports Sports Centre at Charterhouse, to offer new changing rooms, fitness suites, studios, containment to the internal accommodation; effectively turning the existing entranceLocation Godalming, Surrey squash courts, creche and café. forecourt into internal space.Construction value £600,000Floor area 300 sqm The QSC sits at the North West corner of the campus occupying a slightly raised A curving open colonnade is constructed from a series of double pre-cast concreteContract form TBC position over looking the majority of the external sports pitches. The entrance columns set approximately 4.5m apart, with each column supporting a singleAppointed 2008 elevation faces South-East and enjoys spectacular views across the Surrey curving pre-cast beam tied back to main facade.Completed (Current) landscape.Client contact Emma Humphreys The colonnade, whilst influenced by the natural curve of the landscape and cricketServices provided by DEA The project also includes new all weather pitches and a reconfigured parking courts pitch, also creates a dynamic relationship with diagonal brick facade encouragingArchitecture, Interior Design, Lead on an adjacent brownfield site. The scale of the proposed extension is sympathetic people to enter the street from either end.Designer, Specification Writer with its unique location as well as responding directly to the height of the existing QSC and making the best use of the gently sloping site. The colonnade also subtly hides a sloping ground plane, allowing wheelchair users and golf buggies seamless access to the playing fields. Careful internal planning has enabled the extension to incorporate four squash courts on the western side of the extension by sinking them into the ground, whilst Planning approval has been granted by Waverley Borough Council. ensuring that the overall height of the extension remains similar to the height of the existing eaves of the QSC. The mass of the extension is reduced further by cutting the building back on the western side by offering the roofs of the squash courts as a viewing terrace.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 30
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Charterhouse School Fletcherites Boarding HousePROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Charterhouse Fletcherites comprises a new two-storey building providing boarding accommodation for 37 no. 6th form girls, house tutor and matron’s flat. It is set in theProject Fletcherites Boarding Surrey greenbelt and immediately adjacent to the enigmatic 1960’s boarding houseHouse ‘Hodgsonites’ by Richard Gilbert-Scott, to which it relates.Location Godalming, Surrey The West extension provides approximately 1140m2 of new accommodation at a budget of approximately £2.4m. This represents 37 en-suite student bed-spacesConstruction value £2.4 million and supporting accommodation, including two tutor’s maisonettes, student social space and student walk-in surgery . Floor area Approx 1100 sqm Completed in September 2015 after a project inception of April 2014, the projectContract form Design & Build was a case study example of a positive working relationship between design-team, client and contractor.Appointed March 2014 This was necessary in order to overcome the hurdle of the demanding programmeCompleted September 2015 whilst not sacrificing the quality of the architecture or end product. The project was beset with challenges, including a late change of procurement method, change ofClient contact Emma Humphreys preferred contractor and changes to the method of construction six weeks before start on site. Services provided by DEAArchitecture, Interior Design, LeadDesigner, Contract Administration “ This is a beautifully constructed contemporary building with well lit circulation spaces and simple design lines. It has been well received by the school and pupils alike.” Emma Humphreys Estates Bursar, Charterhouse School View from HodgsonitesDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 32
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West extension Fletcherites (Northbrook) Hodgesorites i The views to and from the South elevation of the old house is preserved.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 34 Entrance portico
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Downe House School Learning CentrePROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Downe House School Following an invited master plan design competition in 2013, Design Engine wereProject Learning Centre subsequently commissioned to develop designs for the new Learning Centre atLocation Newbury, Berskhire Downe House School which formed a central part of the masterplan itself.Construction value £5.1 millionFloor area 1166 sqm The competition brief asked for proposals for a visually and experientially inspiringContract form Traditional building that would sit at the heart of the campus and serve as a hub for some of theAppointed 2012 key spaces of learning and day-today activities: a new library, multi-purposeCompleted Due September 2017 auditorium, teaching spaces, cafe, shop, resources hub and offices.Client contact Alasdair HeathServices provided by DEA The Centre is a physical and visual draw into the campus from the main entrance,Architecture, Interior Design, Lead and reinforces connections to the surrounding woodland which gives the School itsDesigner, Contract Administration unique setting. The three-storey building sits into the natural topography; therefore minimising its height at the main entrance approach. The building will play a central role at Downe House, both in terms of the 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.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 36
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE WITH A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING Radley College Clocktower CourtPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Radley College At Radley College, a significant new building has been inserted into a central side, the Listed Grade 2 Rackets Court and on the other, a non-listed but period campus space, replacing an earlier theatre building. The architecture of this £4.2 building which serves as the Fives Court.Project Clocktower Court - Social million scheme not only has to reconcile the numerous existing buildings thatCentre, History and Politics Faculty, surround the site, including the adjacent Grade 2 Listed Rackets Court, but it also The other key elevation on the building is east-facing and fronts onto a gardenArt Gallery has to provide fluid connections internally between these buildings (4 no. in total) of space. This elevation also takes the form of a colonnade, but this time single storey, varying internal floor heights. with teaching classrooms over. This provides a covered route into the rear of theLocation Radley, Abingdon building and access to the new art gallery.Construction value £4.2 million A key consideration was to achieve a building of a timeless quality, which sits and Following analysis of the evolution of the site it became apparent that this project functions in harmony with its neighbouring buildings. Clocktower Court consists of would be come a central focal point within the campus. For this reason the designFloor area Approx 2,100 sqm academic teaching space of ten classrooms, a new art gallery and a social hub explored the civic potential of the project and pushed the most social function including catering facilities. Because of the building’s position in the site it also has to towards the existing court already occupied by the dominant Clocktower.Contract form Traditional JCT address three different external spaces, each possessing very different functions and qualities. As with any project where a knitting of the fabric of the estate is required,Appointed May 2009 consideration was given to how the new building would be approached by The principal elevation faces the most civic space within the College and therefore pedestrians and where entrances should be, where new external and internal routesCompleted September 2013 has been treated with a double-height colonnade of brickwork. This elevation also could be incorporated to open up new opportunities to connect various parts of the reconciles the scale difference between buildings which site either side. On one campus and how the building could glue together a number of disparate existingClient contact David Anderson buildings without leaving a outcome which would give an over-bearing scale.(Estates Bursar)Services provided by DEAArchitecture, Interior Design, LeadDesigner, Contract AdministrationRIBA Award 2014, Civic Trust “ This is a modern reinterpretation of the VictorianAward 2014, Oxford Preservation redbrick tradition, and it is handled with due deferenceTrust Award 2014 to the scale of its surroundings. It is intelligent and unfussy.” Hugh Pearman The RIBA Journal. December 2013DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 38
DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 39 Social space and cafe
DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 40 Gallery between existing and new building. First floor classroom
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE WITH A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING Princes’s Mead SchoolPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Prince’s Mead School Prince’s Mead School is a preparatory school with 230 pupils situated on the The resulting document proved invaluable when we became involved in extensive outskirts of Winchester and occupying the building and grounds of a Grade II * consultation with Historic England and Winchester City council’s Conservation andProject Masterplan & Capital listed country mansion known as Worthy House. Planning Officers, since it offered answers to their many concerns about impact ofProjects the traffic, displacement of existing car parking locations and the reasons behind the Currently the original house serves a multitude of purposes including teaching location of new buildings.Location Winchester, Hampshire spaces, meeting rooms, library etc. In the basement is located the kitchens and dining space. The facility presents health and safety issues and is inadequate spatially The masterplan also demonstrated that the site could realistically take no furtherConstruction value £4.0 million and with poor acoustics. development beyond what was presented and this proved to reassure all external stakeholders, including neighbours that the intention of the school was to fix itsFloor area 1,800 sqm Design Engine were appointed following a short competition to design a new future growth at numbers that were sustainable for the future financial security of the kitchen/ dining facility, and three teaching rooms and a new performance space. school, with a self-imposed cap on any significant future development of the site.Contract form Traditional Through the process of design we recognised that there were very few locations onAppointed 2015 this sensitive site which would be suitable. Views onto the site were particularly sensitive and the design and proximity of a new building next to Worthy HouseCompleted August 2018 needed particular care. In addition there were many external issues relating to traffic and parking.Client contact Richard WhiteServices provided by DEAArchitecture, Masterplannig,Interior Design When combined, it became apparent that all of these issues were sufficiently interconnected to merit the creation of a detailed masterplan focussing on car and minibus car parking options and flow, soft landscaping strategy, buildings locations and phasing.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 42
Geometry and proportion study The new courtyard spaceg Block DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 43
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Twyford School MasterplanPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Twyford School Twyford School are a renowned co-educating not-for-profit preparatory school forProject 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 12millionFloor area TBC Design Engine were commissioned following a rigorous competition process toContract form TBC create a long-term vision and project-specific strategy for their site. Immediate needsAppointed 2016 include a better 80-bed boarding facility and improved pre-preparatory school.Completed CurrentClient 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 has been presented to the local authority as part of Pre Application dialogue in 2017 and since then has received full support from the South Downs National Parks Authority subject to the necessary planning and listed building submissions.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 44
Overview of the completed masterplan DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 45
View from the south west - all phases completed Plan diagram showing connections to the Queen Anne original houseDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 46
8 B O 12 U 14 R N 6 E L A N E (14) 9 19 12 R O AD H I L L / WINCHESTER SE RLES BO UR N E LANENew entrance to school through walled S T REETgarden. HI GHDESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 47 ROAD HA Z E L EY Site plan of competed masterplan
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Downe House School MasterplanPROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARYClient Twyford School Downe House School is an independent girls school for ages 11-18. The site Upon completion of the Master Plan Design Engine were then appointed toProject Masterplan includes boarding provision. undertake the design and delivery of the new Learning Centre. This project isLocation Winchester, Hampshire currently on site and is due for completion in July 2018.Construction value 12million The masterplan component of our commission was essential in establishing how theFloor area TBC wider campus should be developed in order that a new Learning Centre could beContract form TBC accommodated in the preferred central location identified. Additional futureAppointed 2016 development opportunities were also explored.Completed CurrentClient contact Charles Gillow In addition to ensuring that the building functioned well with the topography of theServices provided by DEA site and with the adjacent buildings, there was a need to review the wider vehicularArchitecture, Masterplanning , movement strategy. Key was the reorientation of the main access road into the siteLandscape design 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.DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 48
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