Site strategy diagram Social space and cafe DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 49 The masterplan site layout
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE 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, M & E 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 listed school hall building dating back to the School’s which are summarised below: Appointed 2016 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 Campus’s historic asset great emphasis has been checking of space and curriculum standards throughout the process. 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 phase of work. The masterplan process is nearing completion and we are now due to embark on a This enables a degree of flexibility to be brought to the delivery of the master plan in series of important external consultations with Local Authority planners, conservation terms of the timing of future works which might be influenced by a number of officers and highways engineers. external factors including finances, school growth/shrinkage etc. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 50
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 DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 51 The masterplan site layout
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Charterhouse School Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Charterhouse School Charterhouse is distinguished as a ‘campus’ School; but one currently blighted by vehicles and parking. Our brief was to create a pedestrian-friendly campus, where Project Masterplan wayfinding is clear, parking areas are concealed, and site management is discreet. Location Godalming, Surrey A new landscape zone is described around the original nineteenth century buildings, within which cars are excluded (with the exception of emergency Construction value N/A vehicles). Floor area N/A 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 Contract form Design & Build landscape where the Founder’s Tree can once again take centre stage. Completed N/A The masterplan document produced for the school described a long-term vision for the campus. Some projects have now been completed (Dining Hall and Fletcherites Client contact Emma Humphreys boarding house); some are in design (Queens Sports Centre); some are on site (Science and mathematics); some are longer-term propositions. All came about Services provided by DEA through an ongoing dialogue leading towards a balanced strategy on future Architecture, Interior Design, Lead curriculum, planning and funding. Designer, Contract Administration, Specification Writer DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 52
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EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Winchester College Southern Campus Masterplan PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Winchester College Winchester College’s current indoor sports centre located on its Southern Campus dates from the 1960s 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 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 Completion September 2021 sensitive to their remaining neighbours. Client contact Simeon Cox The scheme has now been developed to a detail level and work is due to start on site in March 2019 with completion in 2021 Services provided by DEA Architecture, Masterplannig, Interior Design, CA DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 54
View from Kingsgate park DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 55 The new sanatorium Staff residences on Kingsgate Road
Illustration of the Southern Campus showing connections to the historic school and city DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 56
Site models prepared for school and public consultations DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 57
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Example Project 1. Multi year conversion/refurbishment Historic Building site We have selected a project in the heart of Oxford, St Peter’s College, a sensitive historical location. We were appointed in 2015 and to date have completed 3 projects in 2017/18 and are currently working towards a planning application later this year for a fourth project DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 59
MULTI YEAR CONVERSION/REFURBISHMENT - HISTORIC BUILDING SITE St Peter’s College Perrodo PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Phase 2 Setting Client St Peter’s College The Perrodo Project is intended to improve study, teaching and boarding spaces as Project Perrodo Phase 2 Building well as improving its public spaces. Thanks to a recent donation from the Perrodo Location Oxford family, the college is able to undertake a series of improvements that will help to continue in this tradition. Construction value £2.3 million Design Engine’s competition winning scheme included a new 4-storey pavilion Floor area 400 sqm building within a remodeled Chavasse Quad. This is alongside significant re- Contract form Traditional imagining and refurbishment of existing accommodation to provide both private and communal spaces. Appointed 2015 The project includes; six new study bedrooms, a seminar room and a ground floor Overview of Chavasse Quad study and event space, as well as the refurbishment of the three existing seminar Completed 2018 + ongoing spaces in the Chavasse Building. Client contact James Graham The site is constrained for its lack of access, leading to us developing an off-site (Bursar) modular construction strategy enabling craning of the structural frame into the quad. Services provided by DEA The remodeling of the Chavasse building was completed in 2017 followed by the Architecture, Interior Design, Lead pavilion building and new landscaping in 2018. Designer The next project at St Peter’s involved the dining room (Hannington Hall) a grade II Awards RIBA Regional South listed interior that needed its acoustic environment improved. Working with Award Winner 2018, WAN Awards specialist acoustic engineers and lighting designers a new bespoke curved lining Education Regional Winner: EMEA with integrated lighting has been installed, complete in 2018. 2018, Civic Trust Regional Finalist 2019, Oxfordshire Property Awards We are currently working on a fourth project to add 49 study rooms to the Castle Hill Highly Commended Project of the site adjacent to Chavasse Quad. Year 2018, Oxford Preservation Trust New Buildings Certificate 2018, Building Awards Small Project of the Year Shortlist 2018, AJ Architecture Awards Finalist Higher Education Project of the Year 2018 DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 60
The new pavilion building facing Chavasse Quad DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 61
New landscaping to Chavasse Quad DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 62
The new bespoke acoustic and lighting ceiling lining in Hannington Hall DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 63
Views from the Old Castle and Castle Hill DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 64
Context site study model of Castle Hill DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 65
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DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 67 Example Project 2. Multi year conversion/refurbishment Modern business site Oxford Brookes University comprises a number of buildings ranging in age from the late 1950s through to the 1980s and early 2000s We were commissioned to add significant new buildings but to also re-purpose many of the exiting structures. Our new extensions were built to modern commercial office standards to provide flexible floor plates. Existing office accommodation needed its M&E equipment to be modified to cater for modern teaching requirements. The development was completed incrementally in phases over a number of years to allow teaching to continue through the construction process.
MULTI YEAR CONVERSION/REFURBISHMENT - MODERN BUSINESS SITE Oxford Brookes University Abercrombie Building PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Oxford Brookes University The Abercrombie Building forms the first phase of the much larger New Library and building (The Lloyd Building). This building contained the department of planning Teaching Building for Oxford Brookes University. and whilst connected to the existing Abercrombie the physical linkages were Project Abercombie Building tenuous with convoluted circulation and various half levels, meaning the spaces did The extended Abercrombie building rehouses and consolidates the Faculty of not flow from one area to another. Location Oxford Technology, Design and Environment, which includes the School of Architecture. The extension runs to the south of Abercrombie and engages with the main New The Abercrombie facades are the first realised element of this intensive design Construction value £16 million Library and Teaching Building, helping to knit the new with the old. The new development. They included a complex layering of structural and planning grids to extension is linked to the existing building by means of glass bridges and shared create a flexible building. The use of coloured glass in the façade along with the Floor area 4800 sqm meeting galleries, forming a dramatic interior with internal spaces opening onto the glass bridges creates shafts of intense colour. void. Contract form NEC 3 In order to maintain the integrity of the ‘pegs’ as they pass from outside to inside the The building is an example to students of best practice in terms of sustainability, internal facades have been designed to mimic the external skin. However to respond Appointed 2007 construction, design and facilities. The void itself, with its high glass roof forms an to the different environment the external dark grey fibre concrete rainscreen has environmental moderator, allowing light and air in as well as framing views of areas been replaced with dark grey acoustic panels. Completed 2012 not only on the same level, but to other parts of the school and outside to a courtyard. Client contact Whilst the upper floors serve the faculty the ground floor is part of the wider Services provided by DEA University domain. The space incorporates a gallery space as well as café and Architecture, Interior Design experimental social learning space Awards RIBA Building of the year South 2014, RIBA Sustainability Award South 2014, RIBA Award South 2014 The specific brief for the Abercrombie Building was to bring together for the first time the various disciplines of Architecture, Planning and Construction under one roof. As part of the overall masterplan it was necessary to demolish an existing 1980s DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 68
View across the atrium to the new extension Main entrance of the new Abercrombie extension DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 69
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Atrium space Atrium Space within the new extension ( left) and re-clad of existing building facade (right) DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 71
Circulation diagram The new main library building under construction adjacent to the existing 1950s wing. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 72
Overview of the campus DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 73
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Example Project 3. Set in an educational environment Historic Building We were given the opportunity to undertake a major refurbishment of this historic chapel at The University Of Winchester. The commission included the design for a new altar and font as well as a contemporary side chapel. The chapel in is a central location within the university’s King Alfred campus making it a challenging construction process on a restricted site. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 75
SET IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT - HISTORIC BUILDING University of Winchester Winton Chapel PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client University of Winchester The project was to renovate and extend the University’s Victorian Chapel to be one viewed close up. Our response has been to generate a diaphanous and textural of the most visible expressions of the celebrations to commemorate the 175th surface to the building that is continuous over both roof and wall allowing the Project Winton Chapel anniversary. building to be interpreted at different distances and scales. Location Winchester Originally built in 1880, and then extended in 1927, the Chapel at the University of We have studied the geometry of the gothic tracery within the east and west Winchester plays a vital role in University life for students, staff and members of the windows of the existing chapel to source a pattern that is referential to the existing Construction value £800,000 community. It is a centre of worship and discussion, open to people of all faiths and architecture, and an interpretation appropriate for the 21st century. of none – it can be a place of quiet contemplation, those seeking support or a Floor area 350 sqm guiding hand when they need it most, as well as a place of joy and celebration. The As part of the renovation of the gothic revival interior, we were commissioned to Chapel is used for a number of different events and purposes – these include design a new altar and font. Both are carved from locally sourced Purbeck limestone, Contract form Prime Cost concerts by the Foundation Music choirs and ensembles, and being a war memorial where the fossils within the stone are expressed on the polished surfaces. The font for the two World Wars, it acts as a focal point for both reflection and remembrance. basin is made from spun, polished stainless steel. Appointed 2014 The brief required the addition of a side chapel for private prayer and Completed December 2016 contemplation. Our solution is a pitched roof structure that mirrors that of the existing building and allows light to penetrate into the perimeter exterior spaces. Client contact Richard Webster To respond to the site edge the plan of the side chapel is tapered. This gives Services provided by DEA additional width to the chapel space that can be entered either from a discrete Architecture, Interior Design, Lead recessed north door or via the existing chapel interior. This plan form creates a twist Designer in the pitched roof bringing an intriguing geometric dynamic to the new addition. We are interested in how the surface of the side chapel will be experienced. The Awards RIBA Regional South roof is highly visible from the north where the site is approached at high level. By Award Winner 2017,Civic Voice contrast with circulation space so limited around the perimeter, the walls can only be Design Award Overall Winner & Historic Buildings Winner 2017,AJ Retrofit Awards Finalist 2017,Civic Trust regional Finalist 2018 DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 76
The restored chapel with new font and altar DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 77
SET IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT - HISTORIC BUILDING SITE New side chapel Detail of the completed East elevation Studies for the new side chapel DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 78
The new side chapel interior DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 79
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The new Altar and Font DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 81
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Example Project 4. Multi year conversion/refurbishment Educational environment Design Engine have been working at the university of Winchester since 2002. To date we have delivered 6 projects with our 7th due for completion August 2019. In terms of restricted site access, the St Alphege project was our most challenging commission. The project included the refurbishment of a 1960s building, large teaching rooms in a new wing and within an additional top floor. This was delivered in a live site and within a tight budget and programme. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 83
MULTI YEAR CONVERSION/REFURBISHMENT - EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT University of Winchester St. Alphege Building PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client University of Winchester The new Learning and Teaching Building is another commission from the University Project St. Alphege Building of Winchester, forming another part of the emerging Design Engine masterplan for Location Winchester King Alfred’s Campus. The St. Alphege Building is situated within a central location Construction value £3.8 million of the King Alfred Campus and was officially opened in January 2013 by His Royal Floor area 4800 sqm Highness The Earl of Wessex. Contract form D&B Appointed 2010 The St. Alphege Building provides 10 flexible teaching studios, breakout spaces, a Completed 2012 high-level rooftop extension and a glazed atrium linking the existing and new Client contact Justin Ridgement buildings. 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. Services provided by DEA The new building (St.Alphege) is physically connected to the existing 1970s Architecture, Interior Design, St.Edburga teaching building, which has undergone extensive refurbishment works, Landscaping as part of a second phase of the project. The St Edburga building is completely refurbished, with new thermally efficient external cladding and a brand new rooftop Awards RIBA Regional 2013, Civic extension, which transforms the original building. The new buildings combine to Trust Award 2014, City of form a new landscaped Piazza space fronting the Sparkford Road entrance. Winchester Trust, Joint overall Winner & Sustainabililty Award Carried out with contractor Geoffrey Osborne Ltd, the new buildings were delivered 2013 on a fast-track programme, and use natural ventilation facade design and technologies which contribute to an overall BREEAM excellent project. Sketch of St. Alphege artwork and entrance approach DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 84
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Close-up of St. Alphege artwork ‘weave’ DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 86
Students working within the new classrooms within the St. Alphege Building Timber brise soleil for south facing facade DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 87
Cross section with the original building on the left Study model DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 88
New stair between buildings South elevation DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 89
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References, Insurances & Fees References from projects in the Education Sector. Current Insurance Certificates and Chargeable rates - method of fee calculation. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 91
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FEE INFORMATION Chargeable rates and methods of fee calculation Typically our fees are calculated as a percentage of the construction cost and TIME CHARGES JAN 2019 HOURLY RATE DAY RATE structured on the RIBA Work Stages 0-7 LEVEL £150 £975 During the early stages of the project (RIBA Stages 0-1) when the budget or £125 £850 construction cost is being determined or unknown, we typically agree a fixed Director £110 £690 lump sum fee including expenses based on the resources/deliverables Associate £90 £550 required. Senior Architect £60 £410 Architect Our fees will be competitive but reflect the level of resource and experience Assistant Architect that we believe is required to deliver a successful project, whilst representing best value for our clients. To facilitate the start of a project we are experienced in working within capped budgets and tailoring our fee accordingly to work within funding streams and limitations. The above methods of calculation are generally used for most projects, but we have included our standard time charge rates for your information. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS | 95
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