Design Engine - Higher Education 2016

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1 INTRODUCTION Founded in 2001 by Richard Rose-Casemore, Richard Jobson and Rodney Graham, Design Engine Architects is a practice of 35 people delivering award- winning national and international architecture and interior design from its Winchester studios. We work across all sectors and scales but have developed a specialist team for the design and delivery of exceptional academic facilities. As a practice we are fascinated by the exploration of new teaching and learning environments. We have lectured at education conferences on these ideas as well as researching emerging trends in the UK and abroad. Ultimately all of our work, designed closely with our higher education clients, is focused on improving the student experience. This involves creating exciting, vibrant, uplifting buildings, which remain serious in their respect for academic teaching and learning, whilst at the same time being cognisant of the need to be sustainable, affordable, robust and maintainable. We have delivered a wide range of projects for higher education clients including University of Oxford, London School of Economics and University of Southampton and are currently working on campus developments for London Metropolitan University and Brighton University. The next few pages focus on our work for three institutions: University of Winchester, Oxford Brookes University and Arts University Bournemouth. Featured projects are a mixture of new build and refurbishment, and are illustrative of the range and flexibility of spaces required in a modern higher education learning environment, all enlivened through the use of colour and materiality.Design Engine Architects \ Higher Education Higher Education \ 33

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CONTENTS 2 1 Introduction 4 4 2 University of Winchester 82.1 St. Alphege Building 122.2 University Centre 142.3 John Stripe Lecture Theatre2.4 Performing Arts Studio 16 16 3 Oxford Brookes University 203.1 John Henry Brookes Building3.2 Abercrombie Building 22 22 4 Arts University Bournemouth 264.1 Student Services Building 304.2 Photography Building4.3 Design Workshops & Studios 32 5 Client List Higher Education \ 5

St Alphege Building University of WinchesterLocation: Winchester St. Alphege Learning and Teaching BuildingCompletion Date: 2012 The St. Alphege Building is situated within a central location of the King Alfred CampusContract Value: £3.8m and was officially opened in January 2013 by His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex.Area: 1570 sqm The St. Alphege Building provides 10 flexible teaching studios, breakout spaces, a high-Awards: level rooftop extension and a glazed atrium linking the existing and new buildings.RIBA Regional 2013Civic Trust Award 2014 The building occupies a steeply sloping site and the southern elevation overlooks a large playing field with distant views towards the downs. A former 1930s Faculty of Arts building was demolished to make way for the new building.“Design Engine Architects have provided the University of Winchester an imaginative, professional and practical service over the 10 years, introducing a sea change in the quality of buildings which underpins the ethos of the institution and at the same time is cost effective.” — John Mann, Director of Estates, University of WinchesterSt. Edburga (highlighted) remodelled andextended, with newly built St. Alphegeconnected by a new atrium. Design Engine Architects \ 6

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3.1\ Primary TypefaceClient: University of WinchesterArchitect: Design EngineStructural Engineer: Heyne Tillet SteelBuilding Services Engineer: GrontmijQuantity Surveyor: Jackson ColesSpecification Writer: Design EngineAcoustic Consultants: English Cogger PartnershipCDMC: Allen Holmes LtdBuilding Control Inspector: WCC LA Building ControlBREEAM Assessor: GrontmijMain Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne Ltd 8 Design Engine Architects \ 8

The new building (St.Alphege) is physically connected to the existing 1970s St.Edburga teaching building, which has undergone extensive refurbishment works, as part of a second phase of the project. The University of Winchester’s brief was initially to provide 8 teaching spaces within a new building for approximately 600 students. The site with an existing 1920s examination hall, was adjacent to an existing 1970s teaching building, which had to remain partially operational during construction. Phase 2 of the works converted a further two lecture spaces in the existing building and provided two additional lecture rooms and an open learning space as part of a rooftop extension. As part of the University’s aspiration to drive higher standards of excellence for studying and the student experience, the building was set to achieve BREEAM excellent from the outset of the project. This has seen innovative technology and design used to harness and control passive environmental factors. This gives a more comfortable and controllable space that aids teaching and wellbeing. It also provides the obvious environmental benefits of natural light, natural ventilation and reduced energy consumption. As well as providing excellent teaching rooms, particular attention was given to the external areas between campus buildings, which form a critical social space and important frontage for the University of Winchester.“layered in a filigree drape of sheltering timber louvres that suggests both a sense of the big scale and a richness of detail” —RIBA Awards, St. Alphege Judging panel Higher Education \ 9

Location: Winchester University CentreCompletion Date: 2007Contract Value: £6.5m University of WinchesterArea: 3300 sqm The site forms an important boundary to the main campus and adjoins the point of mainAwards: entrance for the University but previously offered a very poor ‘public face’. The site wasRIBA 2008 steeply sloping and graded and there was a poor level of disabled access to the existingWinchester Trust Award 2010 building, and elsewhere across the campus.The new building reinforces the edge of the campus providing an improved threshold to the Sparkford Road. The building is conceived in two halves in terms of its section: the lower level consists of a series of stepped terraces in which the venue space is placed ‘inboard’ to the site and as buried within the topography as far as possible to mitigate any noise break-out, the upper level consists of the food hall, opens out to landscaped terraces and sits beneath a delicate lightweight roof structure. Design Engine Architects \ 10

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Client: University of Winchester Plinth, steps, terraces:Architect: Design Engine The lower part of the building is seen as a series of interlocking landscaped terraces thatStructural Engineer: Price & Myers step up the site and form the ‘plinth’ of the building. The use of engineering brickwork hasBuilding Services Engineer: been chosen to reinforce the idea that this is a landscape element rather than part of theMichael Popper Assoc. LLP ‘building’. The south facing terraces incorporate generous steps using a silver grey pavingQuantity Surveyor: Jackson Coles ideal for students to meet and sit.Acoustic Consultants:English Cogger Partnership Sculptural roofFire Engineering Consultant: Safe The roof is seen as a lightweight umbrella, which forms a ‘canopy’ over a section of theBuilding Control Inspector: STMC external landscaped terraces. The envelope to the foodhall and internet café is largelyLandscape Consultants: glazed with sunshading to prevent overheating of the internal environment. The formJoy Jardine Garden Design of the zinc roof was developed over considerable time and aims to create a unique 5thMain Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne Ltd elevation to the scheme.Planning Supervisor: Jackson Coles Cellular wing The linear block is seen as a counterpoint to the ‘lightweight’ food hall. It is a more solid element, reinforcing the edge of the campus. The use of an insulated render system ties the building back to the Stripe Theatre, which also uses this material. This element contains offices, meeting rooms, a service core and a bookshop. The roof top plant is hidden by a continuous enclosure using Trespa cladding panels to match the colour of the windows and curtain walling. The roof of this building is extended over the access road to the campus to create a porte cochere and literally a gateway to the university. “As architects for the new Student Centre, Design Engine provided imaginative, efficient and cost effective professional input at all times.” — John Mann, Director of Estates, University of Winchester Design Engine Architects \ 12

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John Stripe Lecture Theatre University of WinchesterCompletion Date: 2005 One such project where early studies proved that re-use was the cost effective route toContract Value: £1.8m a new facility was the Stripe Theatre at University of Winchester. Built in the 1970s, theArea: 1190 sqm building was proving inadequate both as a teaching facility and a performance venue. Our solution was to retain the brick structure, re-rake the theatre seating for better sightlines,Awards add a floor above for new seminar rooms and introduce a double-height foyer. The resultWinchester Trust Award2007 is now a University and a city venue of the highest calibre, where auditorium comfort, acoustics and lighting are universally admired. Design Engine Architects \ 14

Client: University of WinchesterArchitect: Design EngineStructural Engineer: Buro HappoldBuilding Services Engineer: Buro HappoldQuantity Surveyor: Burnley Wilson FishAcoustic Consultants: English Cogger PartnershipBuilding Control Inspector: STMCCDMC: Buro Happold Higher Education \ 15

Performing Arts Studio University of WinchesterLocation: Winchester The University needed to provide their Performing Arts Faculty with new and dedicatedCompletion Date: 2009 accommodation. This follows a re-organisation of teaching space between BusinessContract Value: £1.8m Studies and Performing Arts within the campus.Area: 1200 sqm The design had to respond to a tight programme with just 14 months from conceptionAwards: to completion, and a budget of approximately £1,800,000. A ‘stripped down’ aestheticCivic Trust Award 2012 was therefore chosen to meet these requirements, to create a robust environment andBCIA Finalist 2012 promote creative freedom for the users.Structural Engineer: Gyuory Self The studios provide a flexible teaching environment for physical theatre and humanBuilding Services Engineer: Grontmij movement as well as seminars and academic workshops. The drama studios are also usedQuantity Surveyor: Jackson Coles to teach stage management courses in conjunction with technical equipment for lightingBuilding Control Inspector: STMC and sound.Landscape Consultants: Creating PlaceMain Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne LtdCDMC: Allen Holmes Design Engine Architects \ 16

“The Performing Arts Studios are a delight, both to teach inand to learn in.”— Professor Anthony Dean, University of Winchester Higher Education \ 17

John Henry Brookes BuildingOxford Brookes University“The John Henry Brookes building reflects well on both clientand architect. It is a place of learning, administration andrelaxation that works at various speeds and various levelsof privacy from the ultra-public to the ultra-concentrated. Itgives the institution a focus and a sense of physical staturethat it previously lacked.”— Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal Design Engine Architects \ 18

At the core of the concept is the ambition to bring cohesion to a disparate campus; integrating existing buildings with new central student facilities. These links provide fluid movement across the new campus for the first time, where academic spaces co-exist with social areas for the enjoyment of students and staff alike. To achieve the University’s vision for a holistic approach the new building needed to contain a critical mass of accommodation. This includes social learning spaces, main library, lecture theatre, teaching rooms and catering. To give cohesion to the whole campus the core conceptual idea is of a central glowing box interpenetrated by pegs, which reach out to interconnect with the existing campus. These pegs, whilst fulfilling the need for new and better university space, crucially provide the enclosure to a series of new but different external spaces. The Colonnade peg running towards London Road will form the Eastern boundary to the new Piazza. The Abercrombie peg creates a new façade to the Southern edge of a re-modelled central courtyard. The Library peg relates to the internal Forum and creates a new north/south street. And finally the Pooled Teaching and Food Hall peg forms the edge to a future courtyard behind Sinclair as well as a new western courtyard and terrace.Completion Date: 2014Contract Value: £83mArea: 24,320 sqmAwards:RIBA Stirling Prize Midlist 2014RIBA Building of the year (South) 2014RIBA Sustainbaility Award (South) 2014RIBA Awards (South) 2014Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2014AJ Retrofit Award, Higher Education (Over£5m) 2014 The ribbon has been introduced to address a number of issues around and within the building. Firstly it acts to tie the various components (the ‘pegs’) together, running as a continuous thread through the building. This helps to enhance the principal point of entry as well as reinforce the primary circulation route at level 1. On a practical level the colonnade element of the ribbon helps to give unity to the retail units behind, and provides shading to the food hall at the south end of the building. Higher Education \ 19

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Client Cost Consultant Lighting ConsultantOxford Brookes University Turner & Townsend Speirs and MajorArchitect Fire Engineering Consultant Signage ConsultantDesign Engine Grontmij Holmes WoodStructural Engineer Acoustic Consultants Interior DesignRamboll Sandy Brown Design EngineEnvironmental Engineer Landscape Architect Catering ConsultantGrontmij Land Use Consultants Tricon Higher Education \ 21

Abercrombie Building Oxford Brookes UniversityLocation The Abercrombie Building forms the first phase of the much larger New LibraryOxford Brookes and Teaching Building for Oxford Brookes University.University The extended Abercrombie building rehouses and consolidates the FacultyCompletion Date of Technology, Design and Environment, which includes the School of2012 Architecture. The extension runs to the south of Abercrombie and engages with the main New Library and Teaching Building, helping to knit the new withContract Value the old. The new extension is linked to the existing building by means of glass£16m bridges and shared meeting galleries, forming a dramatic interior with internal spaces opening onto the void.Area4800 sqm “…this is absolutely exquisite…This is the beginning of a great modern cathedral of learning.” University chancellor Shami Chakrabarti, Director of campaign group Liberty. Design Engine Architects \ 22

AwardsAJ Retrofit Award,Higher Education2014Oxford PreservationTrust Award2014RIBA Building of theYear (South)2014RIBA SustainabilityAward (South)2014RIBA Awards (South)2014 Client Quantity Surveyor Building Control Inspector Oxford Brookes University Turner & Townsend HCD Architect Specification Writer Landscape Consultants Design Engine John Ahern Landuse Consultants Structural Engineer Acoustic Consultants BREEAM Assessor Ramboll Sandy Brown Grontmij Building Services Engineer Fire Engineering Consultant CDMC Grontmij Grontmij QMP Higher Education \ 23

Student Services Arts University BournemouthLocationPooleCompletion DateSept 2015Contract Value£2.3mArea736 sqm Design Engine Architects \ 24

Client A suite of new buildings providing improved and expanded facilities for theArts University University’s Student Services, Student Union, and Facilities ManagementBournemouth departments. Two-storey brick-clad new buildings, together with re-clad and refurbished existing spaces, provide improved reception areas, new staffArchitect offices and meeting spaces, including dedicated consultation and counsellingDesign Engine rooms, and a GP surgery space, connected by a new foyer, stair and lift.Structural Engineer A sculptural steel external canopy extends over the road to link visually theAKS Ward new spaces, as well as identifying the building entrance and adding impact in defining a new approach to the AUB campus. The brickwork cladding andM&E Consultant aluminium facades have been detailed to appear both contemporary andAVUS Consulting also integrate with existing buildings on the site. The construction system uses an innovative form of insulated concrete formwork, which together withQuantity Surveyor triple-glazed facades, and bespoke mechanical and environmental systems,Capita are designed to target ‘Passivhaus’ environmental performance standards, producing a highly insulated and air-tight building envelope that minimises theLandscape Architect building’s energy consumption and running costs in use.Hyland Edgar DriverPlanning SupervisorTurleyPassivhaus AdvisorWarmMain ContractorMorgan SindallPhotographyNick Kane Higher Education \ 25

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Internal structure and finishes have been optimised for acoustic control, andcare has been taken to select furniture and specify colours and fabric finishesthat create a suitable sense of comfort and coherence to the building interiorsthat supports the atmosphere of communication and counselling which was atthe heart of the client’s brief for the project.The Arts University Bournemouth is nationally and internationally recognisedas a leading university offering high quality specialist education in art, design,media and performance. This project is an initial phase of a master plan byDesign Engine for the expansion and development of the Arts Universitycampus at Wallisdown, Poole. Higher Education \ 27

Photography Building Arts University BournemouthLocation The new Photography Extension building infills a square site between wings of anPoole existing 1980s building, where the existing technical darkroom and studio areas are located. The new four-storey building provides associated support spacesCompletion Date such as break-out, communal, social learning and general teaching spaces,Sept 2015 lecture theatre and I.T. suites, as well as connecting to the existing building circulation routes at each floor level.Contract Value£3.2m Design Engine Architects \ 28Area1500 sqm

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Conceptually, the design has been informed by photographic processes, theprincipal west-facing facade features an array of digitally printed glazed fins thatact as an environmental filter to reflect, diffuse and moderate natural daylight intothe building interior, utilising modern printing and imaging technology whilstreferencing the early forms and glass plate negatives of early photographicprocedures. The building’s exterior refers to early cameras, taking the form ofa black box with apertures forming roof lights, windows and ventilation louvresallowing controlled natural light and air through the atrium and circulation spacesproviding low-energy environmental control. Design Engine Architects \ 30

ClientArts UniversityBournemouthArchitectDesign EngineStructural EngineerAKS WardM&E ConsultantAVUS ConsultingQuantity SurveyorCapitaLandscape ArchitectHyland Edgar DriverPlanning SupervisorTurleyMain ContractorMorgan SindallPhotographyNick KaneAwardsCivic Trust Award2015 Higher Education \ 31

Design Workshops & Studios Arts University BournemouthLocation The project consists of the conversion of former campus halls of residence intoPoole modern studio and teaching space for Arts University Bournemouth.Completion Date Split into two phases, each phase is being delivered within a single universityAug 2016 academic year. The project is part of a wider campus masterplan to update facilities for its internationally renowned creative disciplines. As well as theContract Value conversion of the existing cellular accommodation into specialised workshops,£5.8m new roof lights provide north-lit natural lighting and passive ventilation to the open-plan top floor drawing studios.Area3000 sqm A series of ground floor extensions spill out onto new landscaped spaces. These extensions act as shop windows advertising the output of the university’s highly regarded arts departments and continue the cross fertilisation of ideas across the wider campus. Design Engine Architects \ 32

Client Quantity Surveyor Building Control InspectorArts University Bournemouth Selway Joyce MLMArchitect Main Contractor Landscape ConsultantsDesign Engine Morgan Sindall HEDStructural Engineer Acoustic Consultants Planning ConsultantAKS Ward ARUP TurleyBuilding Services Engineer Fire Engineering Consultant CDMCAVUS Consulting LFA Scott White & Morgan Sindall Higher Education \ 33

Full Client ListArts University BournemouthLondon Metropolitan UniversityLondon School of EconomicsOxford Brookes UniversityRoehampton UniversitySt Peter’s College, University of OxfordUniversity of BrightonUniversity of OxfordUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of WinchesterDesign Engine Architects \ Higher Education Design Engine Arch3it4ects \ 34

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