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White Collar Factory ThE PrINCIPLE oF ThE WhITE CoLLAr FACTory IS To oPTImISE ThE CLImATE CoNTroL BENEFITS oF ThE BUILDINg’S PASSIvE DESIgN (TALL CEILINg, WELL INSULATED FAçADE, EXPoSED mASS) To rEDUCE ThE LEvEL oF mEChANICAL AIr CoNDITIoNINg rEqUIrED. ThE BUILDINg IS NATUrALLy vENTILATED AT ThE PErImETEr WITh rADIANT SLABS ProvIDINg BACKgroUND CooLINg AND hEATINg.

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Tall Ceilings

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sMaRT seRViCing

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siMPle PassiVe FaCaDe

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FleXiBle FlOORPlaTes

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THeRMalMass sTRUCTURe

Increased flexibility of use: volume provides for future market lead upgrades.

Increased natural daylight penetration

Improved temperature comfort levels

Efficient & even distribution of artificial lighting

Minimal provision i.e. no excessive ‘kit’

Maximum use of passive systems i.e. natural daylighting & ventilation

Radiant slab providing cooling & heating

On floor plant above wc area to maximise benefit of tall ceilings

Glazing where it counts i.e. above desk height

Shading where necessary i.e. to south/east & west elevations depending on context

Openable windows controlled by users

% of glazing varies to suit orientation i.e. more to the north, less to the south

Generous scale provides best opportunity for greatest market share

Potential for 2-way split tenancy per floor

Potential for optional voids between floors to connect tenancies

Compact central core provides good nett to gross floor ratio and wall to floor ratio

Exposed concrete for thermal mass and night-time cooling

Exposed concrete minimises decorating.

Exposed concrete a durable & pleasing contemporary aesthetic

Minimise carbon footprint through use of GGBS concrete etc

Beneficial +5% on travel distances (smoke reservoir): provides for deeper floorplates

Optional ‘up-gradable’ add-ons by tenant

White Collar Factory is the latest iteration of an eight-year research project led

by AHMM and Derwent London, and comprises a complex of six buildings at Old Street Yard including offices, studios, incubator space, restaurants and apartments set around a new piece of public realm, with a sixteen-storey tower at its heart. Together, these 27,200 sqm buildings provide a bold new marker for Old Street as well as creating a new, more permeable section of the city that references the alleys and passageways of the historic urban grain.

Featuring long spans, flexible floor plates, operable windows, generous volumes and robust construction, the tower represents a new type of office building that takes its cue from the multi-level factory typology, and uses concrete in several ways. As well as forming the structure, the concrete provides the thermal mass, carries the servicing, and creates a highly expressive finish both inside and out. Board-shuttered concrete wraps the building at pavement level. Above, glazing is interspersed with metal panels punched with ‘portholes’, and banded with powder-coated aluminium spandrel panels.

Project Team

Use of concrete perimeter upstand (i.e. the spandrel zone) & ‘punched’ windows increases structural spans & eliminates perimeter columns

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Architect :

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Main Contractor:

Brookfield Multiplex

M&E Engineer:

Arup

Structural Engineer:

AKT - II

Project Manager:

Jackson Coles

Quantity Surveyor:

AECOM

Landscape Design:

BB UK

Ecology Consultant:

Middlemarch Environmental Limited

Access Consultant:

ACD Landscape

Planning:

Gerald Eve

Sector:

Mixed use

Location:

London, UK

Address:

1 Old Street Yard, London EC1Y 8AF

Client:

Derwent London

Start:

May 2008

Completion:

2017

Total GIA

39,285sqm

BREEAM Outstanding LEED Platinum EPC A Wired Platinum Score for connectivity