12 Dec 2006

Design review 2 – Walkergate

  • 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]

1 Comment

  1. 12 Dec 2006 @ 1:53 pm Cath Kidd said:

    We have a “standard” list of issues to cover in design of anti-lig buildings. When the intranet gets sorted, i’m sure it will appear.

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