Malpas Rd – Mowbray House Surgery (view case study)

• Client input important. Traditional procurement enabled greater control.
• Building designed for context and cost effective solution.
• Spend money where is counts.
• Glass blocks and colour create joy.
• Client has taken ownership and cared for building well.
• NHS love the building.
• First floor set back to create domestic scale.
• Underfloor heating removes clutter.
• Concern over too much glazing and overheating – need more sophisticated heat recovery and heat extraction system.

‘Inspire’ Hornbeam Business Park Harrogate (view case study)

• Client wanted iconic building and led the design development.
• Detailing had to be precise.
• Glass to glass junctions  - no curtain walling.
• Simple detailing driven by the client.
• ‘Coolite’ glass reduces heat gain.
• Single stair building pushed to the limit.

‘One life’ – Middlesbrough (view case study)

• Building brief grew over time – client led the process.
• Major changes to suit budget.
• Traditional contract allowed more freedom of design.
• Fulfils what primary care building should be.
• Detailing affects programme – Detailing of ceramic black tiles and rainscreen cladding could have been simplified to reduce pressure on programme and costs.
• Natural lighting enhance spaces and waiting areas.
• Traditional materials are effective and look contemporary.
• Café spills out onto pavement to create interest to street.
• Underground parking added large costs to scheme but added value to building.

Vermuyden Centre (Thorn, Doncaster Lift)

• Very little control on job due to type of contract.
• Poor details in places as cost drove everything.
• Need to develop flexibility of approach to constraints forced upon us.

• Colours – Each colour has a psychological effect that should be considered as part of the overall colour scheme.
• Examples:        
• Orange – Social space
• Blue – Calming
• At Walkergate the wayfinding strategy is enhanced by the use of colour to differentiate departments and uses within the building.
• Colours are chosen for each department that complement the type of healing taking place or the patient needs in each area.
• Colour helped to differentiate the departments’ identities that had come together in the building
• The colour of a department is expressed on the signage via a coloured disk.
• Colour can be expressed in paint – or through a coloured material e.g. wallpaper
• All finishes within Walkergate are co-ordinated e.g. floors; walls; seating; duvet covers; curtains and IPS units. Do not let one colour dominate a colour scheme in a room.
• Bright colours, e.g. behind reception, attract eyes and demand attention.
• In bedrooms, strong colours are positioned behind the bed so they do not demand attention all the time.
• On long corridors, WC areas are expressed with colour to help with identification.
• When choosing colour tones, consideration should be given to orientation of rooms. In north facing rooms colours will appear darker.
• Client brief important e.g. Nuffield Hospital wanted boutique Hotel look.
• Look at precedents and fashions on the high street for inspiration – what do Mr and Mrs Jones want?
• Colour wheel – opposites on colour wheel are complimentary.
• Accent colour – choose one accent colour in each room.
• Dulux diamond matt – hard wearing and water based and is therefore a useful product.

• Vision of Redcar + Cleveland Council to regenerate Redcar by creating new Leisure and shopping hub in the Links area
• Development with Persimmon  won in competition
• Masterplan based around creation of a link Axis from Church to Waterfront
• Apartments to waterfront
• Housing behind apartments
• Public zone on eastern edge of the site, to include Extreme Sports, Bingo, Visitor Centre, Leisure Centre, Pub, Shops, Medical Centre, Parking, etc
• Previous schemes by Carey Jones (visitor centre)  and Limbrick (leisure centre) have been abandoned. New schemes developed by P+HS Architects
• Planning Application submitted mid 2006
• Early schemes involved the development of the Brief, which had been basic and incomplete
• Early elevation design created issues with Planning Authority and a number of issues were explored further and refined.
• Concepts for revised elevations follow Marine theme
• Curving roof
• Fin walls omitted
• Local material – brick and render
• Durable materials at ground floor to limit effects of vandalism
• Sporting Consultants involved to confirm brief and functional requirements.
• No views into sporting areas from outside impact on elevations
• P+HS keen to maintain high quality of design for when the scheme reaches Construciton phase, e.g carry out early detail design as part of pre-tender works.
• AT future review on maintaining design integrity through detailing will be useful

• Let’s talk about some buildings we like
• Venice house, Paris social housing, Paris art gallery
• Do buildings need to look like their function?
• Sonia, Steve – Design review and technical review
• CABE design statement as the format – good way to present schemes
• Technical design review
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• Walkergate
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• Timetable
• Financial close July 2007 – no steel frame designed
• Project team structure
• Review process – CABE
• Site background
• What was the purpose of the Aedas PSC – did it work?
• Non-institutional domestic feel – up to 35 years there
• Challenged space standards – esp bedrooms
• Basic strategy – get it right first then deal with detail
• Look at the site and listen to the planners [trees]
• Fire strategy
• Failure to understand drawings – codebook not enough – use 3D sketchup?
• Although different colours by department, all clinical whbs same colour throughout
• Early sign up to design by client
• Early sign up to materials by contractor
• Colour as wayfinding
• Audit of design – cost penalty if the building didn’t perform within defined limits
• Use of natural light aids healing, “suncool” glass, overheating etc
• Flexibility – steel frame and metal stuff – sound?
• [look at piling rig]
• External envelope mad up of different systems
• Roof not resolved – better design?
• [anti-lig design guide]

• Design goes off-grid – why cranked? Addresses road side and easterly light, but most beds face west
• New part L – lots of external wall etc? SBEM done – won’t meet Part M with conventional boilers, but will with boimass boilers – otherwise more solar thermal on roofs and walls
• Alternative construction – talking to Yorkon and others
• How do you clean high level windows?
• How do you maintain some high-level facades?
• Height for access/safety – off-set double pitch helps and maintains domestic appearance
• Mono-pitch – more emphasis on road side
• Cedum roof – within pitch constraints – reduces water run-off
• Render to gables etc – prevents completion of lower roof
• UPVC v aluminium
• Steel frame needed for traditional construction
• Timber frame – not considered
• Heating – concrete slab with heating in waffles –Thermocast?
• Underfloor – not flexible enough and not enough user control
• Modular – will the design change? No
• Circulation? About 38%
• Service walkways? How do you get around the corners? Safe egress?
• Basements – why not?