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CULLINAN STUDIO
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU...
Cullinan Studio is a team who design great buildings and great spaces. We have extensive experience in the residential sector, from individual houses to whole neighbourhoods. In the last five years we have designed over 2,000 dwellings in a dozen projects and have seen nearly 600 through to completion. This booklet illustrates how we can create value for you by:
• Integrating the home in the city
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• Creating balanced communities
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• Designing comfortable layouts • Enabling sustainable living
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• Getting it built
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• Dealing with the car
• Opposite: Camden Mews, Ted Cullinan’s Grade II* listed house, which he built in 1964 as a passive solar building. In 2008 the RIBA recognised a lifetime’s work by awarding Ted Cullinan the Royal Gold Medal. Front cover: Stonebridge Hillside Hub, London.Photo © Simon Feneley.
• Making great places to live
Photo Š Daniel Clements
INTEGRATING THE HOME IN THE CITY
The homes we live in make up most of the physical fabric of our towns and cities. Common to all our projects has been the desire to connect the home to the street and to the city quarter, with public space that is not merely ‘left-over’ between the buildings, but that positively enhances the life of the city.
Opposite: The Clink Street development in London reinforces the street line and incorporates a previously hidden Scheduled Ancient Monument as one side of a new public piazza. Above: Our Bristol Harbourside Masterplan uses the form of buildings to define proper public spaces and stitch the scheme into the city centre.
Photo Š Edmund Sumner
CREATING BALANCED COMMUNITIES
Good architecture is more than the sum of its parts. At its best, it positively enhances the lives of those who live in it. We can deal with the complexities of mixed-use and mixedtenure schemes from masterplanning whole towns to individual buildings.
Opposite: The Stonebridge Hillside Hub combines mixed-tenure flats with a health centre, cafe, community centre and a Tesco Metro in a building whose welcoming form creates a new public square at the’hub’ of this area of regeneration. Above: Our masterplan for Penarth Heights in Wales has a wide range of dwelling types.
Homes are for living: the demand for both efficient internal planning and generous spaces for living is important, and finding the balance between the two leads to a successful design. Where possible we design to Lifetime Homes standard, making homes that remain accessible in later life.
Photo Š Paul Raftery
DESIGNING COMFORTABLE LAYOUTS
Opposite: This private house in Richmond is made of subtly divided, connecting rooms. Above: The renovations to this house in Hampstead use the pure geometry of the square to create clarity and harmony whilst clever organisation of kitchen, pantry, laundry and cloak room to create good functionality.
ENABLING SUSTAINABLE LIVING
We bring experience in achieving sustainable homes. We use environmental design tools to develop the key concepts that reduce energy demand, calculate orientations that benefit from daylight whilst avoiding overheating, and to predict how high insulation and thermal mass will smooth out peaks and troughs of temperature.
Opposite: The Barge Arm development on Gloucester Docks achieved an EcoHomes ‘Excellent’ rating. Above: Daylight analysis study using Ecotect software to deliver natural light right into the heart of a residential apartment for a project in Godalming, Surrey.
We are strong on detailing and delivery: we like to see projects through from concept to completion. Our architecture calmly and elegantly celebrates the way materials are put together to make a building. We think about how buildings perform over time, how they will weather beautifully and be maintained economically.
Photos Š Edmund Sumner
GETTING IT BUILT
Opposite: Individually designed brick lintels were used over windows and balconies to give the facade of the Stonebridge Hillside Hub an appearance of thickness and permanence. Above: Siberian Larch cladding of the Hub overlaps the bulky window frames, creating an elegant juxtaposition of glass against timber.
DEALING WITH THE CAR
The car is the biggest single factor that has undermined the rich civic life of our streets. The ‘Manual for Streets’ allows us to rebalance car dominance with the other functions of the street, to advise on ‘how street design can help create better places’, places with ‘local distinctiveness and identity’.
Opposite: At Penarth we designed shared surface streets. Above: At ‘The Crescent’ on Bristol Harbourside, we devised a podium system with a 3/4 depth basement. On the private side of the building, parking is beneath a shared garden, on the public side the raised ground floor gives a considered balance of privacy and contact.
MAKING GREAT PLACES TO LIVE
Good public space increases the value of buildings and brings benefit to both the users and the general public. Great places to live combine areas of calm with areas of activity. At high densities, good quality public realm must be combined with some private outdoor space.
Opposite: The masterplan for Bristol Harbourside was developed through extensive public consultation and incorporates public art that enhances the public space, such as the Millennium Promenade leading to the harbour inlet. Above: Stonebridge community carnival in London begins at the Hillside Hub public square.
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A FEW MORE OF OUR RECENT PROJECTS
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1. A new residential development for the Hyde Group - ‘Spring at Stonebridge Park’. 2. The BREEAM ‘Excellent’ International Institute for Product & Service Innovation, University of Warwick. 3. Torriano Junior School Gatehouse, London. 4. Hyde Hall Learning Centre for the Royal Horticultural Society 5. Baldwin Terrace Residential Development of 12 apartments on Regents Canal 6. Olisa Library at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge 7. Carbon neutral Shahat Garden City masterplan for 60,000 people, Libya. 8. BREEAM ‘Excellent’ Master Film Store for the British Film Institute 9. John Hope Gateway visitor building at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. 10. Maggie’s Newcastle 11. National Automotive Innovation Centre, University of Warwick for Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors and Warwick Manufacturing Group. 12. New Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives Wing at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Cullinan Studio is committed to collaborative design to make fine architecture that fulfils the needs of the client, the users and those of the wider society. We have been designing carefully composed, lowenergy exemplar buildings for five decades and are currently working on masterplanning, urban regeneration, inner city housing, cultural institutions, schools and universities in the UK and abroad. In this booklet we have included a selection of our current and completed residential projects that illustrate our approach to architecture, public space and landscape. We have consistently won awards including: • AJ Retrofit Awards for our own studios and Rosendale Primary School in London in 2013 • RIBA Award and BCI Commendation for the BFI Master Film Store in 2012 • Special Civic Trust Award 2011 for Community Impact & Engagement; and a Building for Life Gold Standard and Award for the Stonebridge Hillside Hub • Building Magazine’s Architectural Practice of the Year 2010 • Building Design’s Public Building Architect of the Year 2010 • the 2008 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Ted Cullinan • the 2002 Stirling Prize Shortlist for the Downland Gridshell CULLINAN STUDIO Foundry, 5 Baldwin Terrace, London N1 7RU T + 44 (0)20 7704 1975 studio@cullinanstudio.com www.cullinanstudio.com We endeavour at all times to conduct our business with integrity, competence and discretion. We are an equal opportunities employer, promoting mutual respect and encouraging life-long development; presently we are 49% women 51% men with an average age of 37. Cullinan Studio is Quality Assured to BS EN ISO 9001 and have ISO 14001 environmental accreditation. We are members of the Employee Ownership Association.