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Relevant experience Historic Setting PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Charterhouse School Planning approval has been granted by Waverley Borough Council for this new The mass of the extension is reduced further by cutting the building back on the Project Sports Centre extensive sports centre in the green belt. western side by offering the roofs of the squash courts as a viewing terrace. Location Godalming, Surrey Construction value TBC 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 the Floor area 300 sqm Sports Centre at Charterhouse, to offer new changing rooms, fitness suites, studios, containment to the internal accommodation; effectively turning the existing entrance Contract form TBC squash courts, creche and café. forecourt into internal space. Appointed 2008 Completed (Current) 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 concrete Client contact Emma Humphreys position over looking the majority of the external sports pitches. The entrance columns set approximately 4.5m apart, with each column supporting a single Services provided by DEA elevation faces South-East and enjoys spectacular views across the Surrey curving pre-cast beam tied back to main facade. Architecture, Interior Design, Lead landscape. Designer The colonnade, whilst influenced by the natural curve of the landscape and cricket The project also includes new all weather pitches and a reconfigured parking courts pitch, also creates a dynamic relationship with diagonal brick facade encouraging on an adjacent brownfield site. The scale of the proposed extension is sympathetic people to enter the street from either end. 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 ensuring that the overall height of the extension remains similar to the height of the existing eaves of the QSC. 51
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Relevant experience Historic Setting PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Canford School The new Library building is located on the site of the current Armoury, an existing intended to provide good light levels and a relationship between the user’s study Project Library facility which will be relocated to a new site. The new library facilities will be in a key spaces and the entrance courtyard, whether they are at ground floor or first floor Location Wimborne Minster location within the Grade I Listed historic core of the campus and will be ideally mezzanine level. The project is under construction, and due for completion early in Construction value £3.1m located for accessibility for staff, students and visitors, with close proximity to car 2021. Floor area 630 sqm parking and other school buildings. Contract form Traditional Appointed 2018 The site adjoins the existing Gisborough Hall, which will be refurbished with new Completion January 2021 mezzanines for increased seating capacity to accommodate school assemblies, Client contact Andrew Bruce exams and events. A new glazed Link pavilion provides a relocated entrance foyer Services provided by DEA and access to both buildings together with art display and performance capability. Architecture, Interior Design, Lead The new Library building will provide a modern, state-of-the-art teaching, learning Designer, Contract Administration and independent study facility with the capacity to meet the school’s current and future needs, including seminar space and video conferencing capabilities. The new building form has been sensitively developed to sit within the historic context; the massing reflects the geometry of the adjoining Hall and the orientation of the new volume encloses external space between new and old buildings to create a new courtyard, defining a space for external activity which can complement the new study spaces within. Internally the Library’s reception area, reading, study, IT space and book stack are contained in a double-height volume which incorporates a first floor mezzanine to the northern two thirds of the ground floor footprint. The airy interior volume is Competition image of interior of new Library 53
View of new Library with Gisborough Hall West facade of new Library Site Plan Sketch image of interior of link to Gisborough Hall 54
Relevant experience Masterplanning PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY The Murray centre in its context 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, architecturen Awards N/A 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 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. 55
v Site strategy diagram Social space and cafe 56 The complete masterplan site layout
Relevant experience Historic Setting 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. 57
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Relevant experience Masterplanning 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 and 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 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 now due to embark phase of work. This enables a degree of flexibility to be brought to the delivery of the on a series of important external consultations with Local Authority planners, master plan in terms of the timing of future works which might be influenced by a conservation officers and highways engineers. number of external factors including finances, school growth/shrinkage etc. 59
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 masterplan site layout 60
Relevant experience Historic Setting 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 PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Radley College At Radley College, a significant new building has been inserted into a central As with any project where a knitting of the fabric of the estate is required, we Project Clocktower Court - Social campus space, replacing an earlier theatre building. The architecture of this £4.2 considered how the new building would be approached by pedestrians and where Centre, History and Politics Faculty, million scheme not only has to reconcile the numerous existing buildings that entrances should be, where new external and internal routes could be incorporated Art Gallery surround the site, including the adjacent Grade 2 Listed Rackets Court, but it also to open up new opportunities to connect various parts of the campus and how the Location Radley, Abingdon has to provide fluid connections internally between these buildings (4 no. in total) of building could glue together a number of disparate existing buildings without Construction value £4.2 million varying internal floor heights. leaving a outcome which would give an over-bearing scale. Floor area Approx 2,100 sqm Contract form Traditional JCT A key consideration was to achieve a building of a timeless quality, which sits and Appointed May 2009 functions in harmony with its neighbouring buildings. Clocktower Court consists of Completed September 2013 academic teaching space of ten classrooms, a new art gallery and a social hub Client contact David Anderson including catering facilities. Because of the building’s position in the site it also has to (Estates Bursar) address three different external spaces, each possessing very different functions and Services provided by DEA qualities. Architecture, Interior Design, Lead Designer, Contract Administration The principal elevation faces the most civic space within the College and therefore RIBA Award 2014, Civic Trust has been treated with a double-height colonnade of brickwork. This elevation also Award 2014, Oxford Preservation reconciles the scale difference between buildings which site either side. On one Trust Award 2014 side, the Listed Grade 2 Rackets Court and on the other, a non-listed but period building which serves as the Fives Court. The other key elevation on the building is 61 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 a covered route into the rear of the building and access to the new art gallery. Following analysis of the evolution of the site it became apparent that this project would be come a central focal point within the campus. For this reason we explored the civic potential of the project and pushed the most social function towards the existing court already occupied by the dominant Clocktower.
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Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning West Downs centre, completed 2020 with Excellent WELL Standard PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client University of Winchester Winchester College’s current indoor sports centre located on its Southern Campus Project Masterplan dates from the 1960’s and is no longer capable of supporting the range or quality of Location Winchester, Hampshire spaces required to deliver the College’s sporting programme. Construction value N/A Floor area N/A The College launched an invited competition to masterplan the whole of the Contract form N/A Southern Campus which Design Engine won in 2015. The task was to not only to Appointed 2017 create a phased development strategy for a new sports facility to ensure that existing Completed August 2017 sports facilities could continue during replacement works, but also to address a Client contact Mark Butt number of other capital project requirements within a single holistic masterplan Services provided by DEA solution. Architecture, Masterplanning, This included a new sanatorium, design and technology centre, support services 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 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 sensitive to their remaining neighbours. The planning application for this major project was submitted in December 2016 and work commenced on site in 2019. 63
KA 1 Option 1 KA 1 current site of St Swithun’s Lodge and the Cottage provides potential to build an academic and office building large enough to Holm replace Herbert Jarman, releasing site KA 2. Stable Holm Lodge New Build Demolition Rate Approximate GIA sqm GIA sqm (£/sqm) Cost (£M) St James’s Hall (approx.) (approx.) Building St Elizabeth’s Hall St Swithun’s Lodge 617 114 0.07 The Cottage 114 0.01 St Grimbald’s Herbert Jarman 131 114 0.16 Herbert Jarman Extn 114 0.15 Building A - Academic / Office 1,368 3,246 Building B - Academic / Office 3,246 7.5 1,354 3.9 2300 1200 2722 sqm DECANT HERBERT JARMAN AND HERBERT TOTAL 3500 3,470 11.8 JARMAN EXTN INTO BUILDINGS A +B Multistory Carpark WD 2 748 sqm POSSIBLE OFFICE DECANT TO WD 1 Student Residences Nursery WD 1 A KA 1 B Herbert Jarman Main Building Student can be demolished Centre Chapel St.Edburga Kenneth Library St.Alphege John Stripe Kettle Theatre Queens Road Fred Tom Student Village Wheeler Atkinson Programme Overview 2 years, 6 months Alwyn Hall Project 0 12 months 748 sqm Commences POSSIBLE OFFICE DECANT TO Sports TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN Hall THE DYTCH Performing Arts Design Development / Construction (18 months) Planning (12 months) Start on Site Completion 64 Design Engine Architects Ltd © 2013
Relevant experience Historic Setting PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client University of Winchester The project was to renovate and extend the University’s Victorian Chapel to be one We are interested in how the surface of the side chapel will be experienced. The roof Project Winton Chapel of the most visible expressions of the celebrations to commemorate the 175th is highly visible from the north where the site is approached at high level. By contrast Location Winchester anniversary. with circulation space so limited around the perimeter, the walls can only be viewed Construction value £800,000 close up. Our response has been to generate a diaphanous and textural surface to Floor area 350 sqm Originally built in 1880, and then extended in 1927, the Chapel at the University of the building that is continuous over both roof and wall allowing the building to be Contract form Prime Cost Winchester plays a vital role in University life for students, staff and members of the interpreted at different distances and scales. Appointed 2014 community. It is a centre of worship and discussion, open to people of all faiths and Completed December 2016 of none – it can be a place of quiet contemplation, those seeking support or a We have studied the geometry of the gothic tracery within the east and west Client contact Richard Webster guiding hand when they need it most, as well as a place of joy and celebration. The windows of the existing chapel to source a pattern that is referential to the existing Services provided by DEA Chapel is used for a number of different events and purposes – these include architecture, and an interpretation appropriate for the 21st century. Architecture, Interior Design, Lead concerts by the Foundation Music choirs and ensembles, and being a war memorial Designer for the two World Wars, it acts as a focal point for both reflection and remembrance. As part of the renovation of the gothic revival interior, we were commissioned to design a new altar and font. Both are craved from locally sourced Purbeck limestone, The brief required the addition of a side chapel for private prayer and where the fossils within the stone are expressed on the polished surfaces. contemplation. Our solution is a pitched roof structure that mirrors that of the existing building and The font basin is made from spun, polished stainless steel. allows light to penetrate into the perimeter exterior spaces. To respond to the site edge the plan of the side chapel is tapered. This gives additional width to the chapel space that can be entered either from a discrete recessed north door or via the exiting chapel interior. This plan form creates a twist in the pitched roof bringing an intriguing geometric dynamic to the new addition. 65
The new side chapel The restored chapel with new font and altar Early studies for the new side chapel 66 Image without organ
Relevant experience Historic Setting PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Winchester College The ground floor level of the exiting buildings on the Southern campus sit very close to the water table level. The water meadows and river sit in close proximity to the Project Southern Campus site. Fluvial flow needed to be understood to inform the risks to the new Masterplan & Capital Projects development. Location Winchester, Hampshire Proposals have been developed with Arups civil engineers and Land Use Landscape consultants. Construction value £35 million TBC Flood Risk Flood risk has been assessed to establish an appropriate ground floor level for the Floor area 10,500 sqm new buildings. This has played a significant part in establishing the access points and access arrangements for disabled visitors, and the overall building height. Contract form Traditional In parallel with protection of the college buildings we also needed to ensure that our Appointed 2015 project had no adverse effect on neighbouring properties. Completion TBC - August 2019 There are various attenuation proposals that manage water run off through protected bunds and swale. Client contact Simeon Cox Services provided by DEA Architecture, Masterplannig, Interior Design, CA 67
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Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning 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 69
View from Kingsgate park Staff residences on Kingsgate Road 70 The new sanatorium
Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client St Vincent’s College Winchester College’s current indoor sports centre located on its Southern Campus Project Masterplan dates from the 1960’s and is no longer capable of supporting the range or quality of Location Gosport, Hampshire spaces required to deliver the College’s sporting programme. Construction value N/A Floor area N/A The College launched an invited competition to masterplan the whole of the Contract form N/A Southern Campus which Design Engine won in 2015. The task was to not only to Appointed 2017 create a phased development strategy for a new sports facility to ensure that existing Completed August 2017 sports facilities could continue during replacement works, but also to address a Client contact Mark Butt number of other capital project requirements within a single holistic masterplan Services provided by DEA solution. Architecture, Masterplanning, This included a new sanatorium, design and technology centre, support services 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 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 sensitive to their remaining neighbours. The planning application for this major project was submitted in December 2016 and work commenced on site in 2019. 71
DRAFT LAYOUT AND ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY Reduce the existing housing ‘zone’ but increase density with less two- storey family homes and more use of ‘wharf-side’ type apartment homes facing the harbour and arranged around courtyard difficult to reduced visual and access physical retained relationship with create distinct relationship with the harbour for harbour distinction College between Establish a clearer line housing and car parking is of division between forced into the new housing and housing gap space college realms. squeezed between the between a two academic Create a new ‘green boundary wall quarters corridor which links the and college limiting lower college quarter building? opportunities with a planted to link across landscape of trees and meaningfully. borders with the harbour edge to Consider retaining this for the College’s estate Potential for a new building which replaces and intensify car those lost to the College parking provision through the housing through potential development can act as a removal / relocation of means of linking the single-storey buildings. ‘lower’ and ‘middle’ College quarters and so provide additional protective courtyard Potential new entrance ‘gateway’ building to bring College presence along Mill Lane. 72
Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Twyford School Twyford School are a renowned co-educating not-for-profit preparatory school for 8 B Project Masterplan boys and girls aged 3-13, situated on a limited site on the outskirts of Winchester. O Location Winchester, Hampshire The site is in a conservation area and several of the historic buildings are listed. 12 U Construction value 12million 14 R Floor area TBC Design Engine were commissioned following a rigorous competition process to N Contract form TBC create a long-term vision and project-specific strategy for their site. Immediate needs 6 E Appointed 2016 include a better 80-bed boarding facility and improved pre-preparatory school. Completed Current L Client contact Charles Gillow Of particular focus is the need to resolve a very difficult traffic management issue, A Services provided by DEA which currently brings significant functional and health and safety issues to the site. N Architecture, Masterplanning , E 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 (14) development strategies, intended to overcome the difficult traffic issues and facilitate the phased delivery of specific projects, whilst maintaining uninterrupted operation 9 of the school. 19 12 The delivery of the various building projects requires a phased approach carefully arranged around the school calendar. The masterplan is being presented to the local R O AD authority as part of Pre Application dialogue in 2017. H I L L / WINCHESTER SE RLES BO UR N E LANE S T REET HI GH ROAD HA Z E L EY Site plan of competed masterplan 73
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Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client Wadham College Two new buildings at the centre of Wadham College’s historic Oxford site to create a Project Competition state of the art Undergraduate Centre as well as an Aspiration Centre to Location Oxford accommodate the increasing number of visiting school students attending access and outreach events such as summer schools and aspiration days. Competition won by Amanda Levette Architects. 75 Model View Detail Model View at North Terrace Model View From Back Quad
View from Back Quad Back Quad and Bar Quad. The existing terrace is extended to create a strong landscape el- ement. This provides level access from the Library to the new Aspiration and Undergraduate Centres as well as routes down into Bar Quad and Honeywell Quad. The language of the terrace extends the landscape character established by the Graduate Centre terrace. Much of the cellular accommodation of the brief can then be contained in the building below the terrace. The Aspiration Centre and Undergraduate Centre are then articulated as two distinct ele- ments connected at low level by the terrace. The cafe / E-hub is located in the space between these two elements and on the route between Back Quad and Bar Quad. This creates a cen- tral heart not only to the new development but the wider college. 6. We have chosen to locate the Aspiration Centre and the 24 student rooms to the north as we feel this better relates to the Bowra Building with its student rooms. As the existing massing 4. sets down towards Honeywell Street we feel locating the taller Aspiration Centre here makes 5. sense in terms of planning. 7. Orientation The Undergraduate Centre is now treated as a pavilion building, Recognisably an element in its own right but connected into the fabric of the college as a result of its embedment into the Massing Orietnetrartaiocne. M Permeability Model View From Back Quad Model View Detail Model View at North Terrace 3. Key 2. 1. Terrace 8. 2. Curtain Walling 3. Juliet Balcony 1. 4. Glazed Balcony Doors Façade Study of Student Rooms 5. Sun Screen 6. Parapet Detail 7. Study Room 8. Seminar / Office Grain GraiCnonstraints P Back Quad 1 2 3 Back Quad Honeywell Cross Section Through Junior Common Room and Cafe / E-Hub. Quad 4 5 Bar Quad 76 Honeywell Quad
Relevant experience Historic Setting / Masterplanning PROJECT DETAILS PROJECT SUMMARY Client The States Of Guernsey La Mare De Carteret follows Les Beaucamps High School completed by Design The new development on the La Mare de Carteret site will provide a total gross Education Department Engine in 2013. The site is in a highly environmentally sensitive location in terms of building area of 13,478 m² comprising: flood risk, ecology and visual impact. Project La Mare De Carteret High Replacement High School facilities for either 600 or 960 11-16 age pupils. School The site is a marine location next to Cobo bay where there is a risk of sea over- Replacement two-form entry Primary School facilities for up to 420 pupils aged 4-11. topping through the coastal defenses. Whist the risk is minimal fears relating to Replacement co-provisioned Pre-school accommodation for 32 children aged 3-4. Location Guernsey climate change prompted a full flood risk assessment. This became part of an County/national competition level indoor sports facilities within the schools’ new overarching Environmental Impact Assessment and application for the site. sports facilities. Construction value 64 million Relocated Communication and Autism Support Service facilities within the two The site also sits below sea level forming a natural basin that has been prone to schools. Floor area 13470 sqm flooding in the past. Measures to improve the sports fields that can become wet in Community facilities for families and the wider community within the schools and the winter months were also required. Part of the EIA requirements was to sports buildings . Contract form D&B demonstrate that the new development and flood defenses had no adverse effect on neighbouring properties. Following the Les Beaucamps High School precedent, the practice has adopted Appointed 2014 courtyard plan forms for both primary and secondary schools, in order to create The extensive flood risk analysis proved that a bund extending across the length of external rooms within and between buildings, creating contrasts between extrovert Completed TBC the west elevation would protect the site from an abnormal flood events. and active spaces and those that are more introvert and tranquil, allowing more Calculations have proved that spoil from the foundation excavations can be used to private spaces to be discovered. Client contact Ashley Dupre - form the bund at the required 2m height, whist also creating a soft landscaped Staes Education Department edge. Planning permission was granted in November 2016. Services provided by DEA Architecture, Landscape architecture, interior design. An existing pond and culvert in the middle of the site have been retained and improved to provide attenuation for the expanded school site, as well as retaining an ecological environment and habitat. Proposals were developed closely with Coe Design Landscape architects and Thompson ecology . 77
Site plan showing central pond and bund sea defense 78
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