Breakfast Seminar Life Sciences

Life Sciences

What’s The Big Deal?

The life sciences sector is a big deal. It has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK. ONS reports that jobs in natural science research have increased by 16% in the last 6 years compared with the total economy of 5%. Estimates are that the sector supports around a quarter of a million UK jobs, with the average GVA per employee over twice the UK average at £104,000.

The UK has the perfect ingredients to be the world-leader in life sciences. It was the UK that administered the first COVID vaccine. It has one of the best academic sectors in the world and an NHS with a global reach in terms of staffing and potential patients for clinical trials. Notwithstanding this, the UK must not be complacent, as both GSK and AZ have chosen to build new factories elsewhere and our academics are now prohibited from accessing EU research programmes.

The sector growth has led to a surge in demand for labs and related premises. JLL suggest that there is 2.8m square feet of active demand for lab space in the ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London but practically zero space available.

Growth and innovation in the life sciences sector has the potential to support other domestic challenges we face. For example, the crises around NHS waiting lists could be assisted, in part, by the development of new drugs that will prevent hospital admissions.

Life sciences can also support us in combating climate emergency. Genetically modified crops may, in the future, allow us to grow crops that grow faster whilst using less water and nutrients.

“If you were to add up all the companies in Oxford, Cambridge and London, you might almost equal Boston in number, but in terms of market capitalisation, it is only a fraction” Sir John Bell, Professor of Medicine at Oxford University.

Venture capital has been a big part of the recent growth with record breaking years of investment, much of which coming from the US. High-growth UK life sciences companies secured over £1.4bn in equity investment in 2020, a year which also saw a 45% increase year-on-year in the number of life science companies incorporated in the UK. At end 2021, Life Science Reit (LABS) listed on the London Stock Exchange after raising £350mn in an oversubscribed issue on the promise of delivering space for the UK’s life science and biotech industry.

The government released their UK Life Sciences Vision in 2021, setting a 10-year strategy for the sector, although this has not been without its critics.

Who Could Say No?

Growing the lifesciences sector seems like a nobrainer, particularly with the headwinds of Brexit, war in Ukraine, inflation and recession. However the UK is in short supply of lab spaces and as demand has risen supply has failed to keep up. This could potentially put a major break on the growth opportunity at hand. Cambridge and Oxford in particular have seen demand rise at a huge pace. Whilst there are long term plans for the expansion of lab facilities in these high demand locations the immediate pipeline is weak and Green Belt designations can hamper delivery. Many other areas particularly in the wider south east do have significant aspirations for this high value sector.

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A Change of Scene

The scale of demand for space is bringing some unexpected developments in the sector.

Proposals are now being developed to bring forward retail centres for lab space. This includes the Grafton Centre in Cambridge acquired by Trinity Investment Management in August 2022 – suggesting labs could sit along side retained retail, leisure, gym and cinema. Similarly Oxford’s Clarendon Centre is proposed for a mix of labs, offices and student accommodation.

Its not all about Oxford and Cambridge. Indications are that increasingly tech influenced life science companies will want to locate in city centre locations accessible to the tech talent. Technology in the sector is also driving growth in computational science so a greater proportion of R&D is taking place in office or dry lab space. So whilst the UK’s “Golden Triangle” is a life sciences hotspot, clusters are also emerging across the UK in city innovation districts.

Canary Wharf Group Kadans Science Partner have formed a joint venture to develop a new 750,000 sq ft life-science focused, wet lab enabled building at Canary Wharf in London. The development will be the first phase in the creation of a world leading centre for health and life sciences on the 3.3 ha North Quay site. Programmed for 2026, it will be the largest commercial wet lab enabled life science building in Europe.

Other plans in London include the Lifesciences hub at the Snowsfields Quarter in London Bridge, with 300,000 sqft proposed by Oxford Properties and Reef Group; the expansion of lifesciences at WestWorks White City, a life science

campus at Fulham Reach and lab-enabled workspace at Judd Street, Kings Cross.

How Can We Help

Iceni Projects provides a multi skilled consultancy offer across planning, economics, transport, design, heritage, communications, archaeology, landscape and sustainability. We have been involved in a range of life sciences and R&D projects including:

• Advising Cambridge Council since 2018 on the long term need for laboratory and other commercial spaces, with our most recent report indicating the long term need for around 6,000,000m sqft

• Advising a group of Oxfordshire authorities on their long term commercial needs with a recommendation on labs spaces similar to that for Cambridge

• Supporting clients on the introduction of lab and mid tech space at a number of business parks in the south east

• Advising on the Waterloo Station masterplan, including the SC1 life science project

• Advising the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow in relation to their vision for expansion and growth following a surge in demand for space and demand for larger premises for start-ups to move into, supporting on planning and socio economic impacts.

• Advised Ford Motor Company for many years on their European R&D Facility at Basildon

• Advising on the VSC case for the development of the West Midland’s Gigafactory in terms of the demand for batteries from electric vehicles and critically to the UK economy.

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IDEAS

PLACES BUILDINGS SPACES

PEOPLE INSPIRING AGILE INNOVATIVE

Life Sciences Projects

30 January 2023

Aukett Swanke is an international firm of creative architects and interior designers offering expert advice and support in the design of architecture and high-performance workplaces in the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East

Aukett Swanke is an award-winning architecture and interior design practice defined by its fluid and interactive approach to design and its delivery. Blending cross-sector experience with market leading R+D, we pride ourselves on establishing a creative collaboration with clients, project teams and major stakeholders.

We firmly believe that a collective drive for excellence creates innovative, elegant and agile designs. Our talented and international team act as custodians for a sustainable built environment, working on grand heritage projects as well as bold new additions to urban and rural landscapes. Schemes range from city-changing masterplans to radical interior spaces and everything in between. Our collegiate design culture enables architects and designers across the practice to share knowledge, balancing creativity and client budgets for projects of the highest quality at every scale.

Encompassing over 60 years of professional experience, Aukett Swanke has a total network of over 250 staff across four countries: in the UK, UAE, Turkey and Germany. Our studios’ expertise in over 20 countries includes work in mixed-use, commercial office, hotel, retail, residential, education and healthcare sectors as well as workplace consulting.

Historically comprised of a diverse cross section of international architects and designers, the team at Aukett Swanke are building on the studio’s history and continuing to look firmly to the future.

www.aukettswanke.com

studio locations/

10 Bonhill Street

LONDON EC2A 4PE

United Kingdom

T +44 (0)20 7843 3000 london@aukettswanke.com

Kore Şehitleri 34/6

Deniz Is Hani 34394 Zincirlikuyu

ISTANBUL

Turkey

T +90 212 318 0400 istanbul@aukettswanke.com

Sidra Tower, Office No 1308

Sheik Zayed Road PO Box 31043

DUBAI

United Arab Emirates

T: +971 (0) 4 286 2831 dubai@johnrharris.com

Sidra Tower, Office No 1309

Sheik Zayed Road PO Box 31043

DUBAI

United Arab Emirates

T; +971 (0) 3 766 9334 info@shanklandcox.com

Sidra Tower, Office No 1405

Sheikh Zayed Road PO Box 616

DUBAI

United Arab Emirates

T: +971 (0) 4 369 7197 dubai@aukettswanke.com

Budapester Strasse 43 10787 BERLIN

Germany

T +49 30 230994 0 mail@aukett-heese.de

Gutleutstrasse 163 60327 FRANKFURT AM MAIN Germany

T +49 (0)69 2475277 0 mail@aukett-heese-frankfurt.de

Aukett Swanke Group Plc 1 Lonsdale Gardens

TUNBRIDGE WELLS Kent TN1 1NU

United Kingdom

T +44 (0)20 7843 3000 plcenquiries@aukettswanke.com

over 250 staff

7 studios

4 countries

COUNTRIES WHERE WE HAVE STUDIOS COUNTRIES WHERE WE HAVE WORKED

LONDON BERLIN

ISTANBUL

DUBAI

FRANKFURT

TUNBRIDGE WELLS

services/ architecture / masterplanning / interior design / urban design / workplace consultancy / graphic design

sectors/

offices & mixed use / hotels & hospitality / residential / retail / student accommodation / education & life sciences

SUSTAINABLE AND EVOLVING

Our studio has emerged from the journey of six architectural practices coming together over 115 years building a legacy of design excellence and sustainability. This extraordinary and unique resilience reflects our enduring design quality, innovative R+D and a collective design culture.

A DYNAMIC BLEND OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS

In our studio we are a group of like-minded architectural thinkers, designers and producers, collectively exploring and shaping our projects for interiors, buildings and master plans.

WELLBEING FOR PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT

The people we work with at Aukett Swanke, and those we design for as clients or inhabitants, are fundamental to our core philosophy that focuses on People and the Planet.

Our culture drives both our design and studio of like-minded architectural thinkers and designers . . .

WELLBEING FOR THE PLANET AND ITS INHABITANTS

We are acutely conscious of our planet’s challenges and our responsibility to act through design for its sustainable future. Our current work continues to develop a legacy of projects which are exemplars of environmental innovation, low impact and durability and are BREEAM, LEED and SKA accredited.

EXPLORING AND CHALLENGING DESIGN TYPOLOGIES

Through rigorous R+D work we explore and challenge design typologies as they currently exist, and create fresh innovations and enhancements, even complete reinventions. This reflects our entrepreneurial drive for better design and our deeply held commitment to sustainable environments.

CRAFTING THE VISION

The crafting of our ideas and design narratives starts in the studio and extends out through our skilled colleagues and the makers who transform them into spaces, places and buildings.

experience designing sustainable projects/

At the scale of cities, we are currently leading the industry in developing hybrid development typologies which combine multiple uses in 3D masterplans – increasing densification, reducing impact and improving the quality of life for working, living and relaxing. We believe sustainability is at the heart of delivering architectural excellence and ensuring the longevity of buildings and the built environment. Our approach is focused on the key objectives of minimising the environmental impact of our buildings, maximising their flexibility, and designing healthy spaces that enhance occupant wellbeing. We work to help our clients create sustainable and agile buildings that meet their aspirations and will stand the test of time. We lead the consultant team to explore best outcomes, and use technology to help measure and define solutions.

We centre sustainability within our design processes through client briefing, conceptual analysis, regular design reviews throughout the project, and engagement with postoccupancy evaluation. We promote learning and communication within our studio to ensure all our teams are knowledgeable about the latest innovations in sustainable design, material technology and construction, as well as current and emerging legislation.

Our approach to sustainability includes our own operations. We are ISO 14001 certified and operationally carbon neutral. Our carbon footprint is independently assessed and certified in accordance with the Carbon Footprint Standard. We are also working to reduce the levels of consumption and waste within our studio using the results of this annual assessment to set benchmarks and monitor progress. We also have a dedicated team looking after the wellbeing of our staff through a regular series of events and initiatives and maintaining our studio environment.

• We are ISO 14001 certified

• We are a Carbon Neutral Organisation

We have a long history of leading on energy resourcefulness: our Barclaycard Headquarters building in Northampton was one of the first BREEAM Excellent rated buildings in the UK, and the Harbourside building in Bristol used chilled beams, displacement ventilation and cooling from harbour water to regulate the building’s internal environment.

Our Distribution Centre for Adnams Brewery in Southwold had the largest green roof in the UK when built, and marked the first commercial application of lime hemp and chalk walling in the UK. This, along with the earth-sheltered glulam roof structure (creating a thermal buffer and improving the local biosphere), rainwater harvesting, solar collection and an integrated, landscape-based foul waste management system were all technologies that were also developed and integrated into our benchmark-setting sustainable store for Marks & Spencer at Cheshire Oaks.

A more recent focus on embodied carbon means close attention being paid to materiality, supply chains, reuse and the circular economy, and buildings that are fundamentally longlife, loose fit and designed for adaptability.

BARCLAYCARD HQ, NORTHAMPTON

ADNAMS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE, SOUTHWOLD

HARBOURSIDE, BRISTOL M&S, CHESHIRE OAKS

We are a Carbon Neutral Organisation and are acutely conscious of our planet’s challenges and our responsibility to act through our designs and operations for its sustainable future

Our current work continues to develop a legacy of innovative projects that are low impact and durable, and which are BREEAM, LEED and SKA accredited

In the past twenty five years, many of our buildings have achieved recognised sustainable ratings and awards, both in the UK and internationally

wellbeing for the planet and its inhabitants

experience designing sustainable projects/ Carbon

Neutral Organisation

BREEAM Outstanding:

1.EQ, Bristol (design stage)

2.Statesman House, Maidenhead (design stage)

3.7 Princes Street, London EC3 (design stage)

BREEAM Excellent:

1 1 Welbeck Street, London W1

2.125 Wood Street, London EC2 (Design Stage)

3.50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1

4.62 Buckingham Gate, London SW1

5.Barclaycard Headquarters, Northampton

6.Basilica, Essex

7.Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park

8.Building D1, Jarrold Site, Norwich

9.City of London Academy, Islington, London N1

10.DCSF UK Government Offices, Sheffield

11.Doxford International Business Park, Sunderland: Phases I, IV, V, VII

12.Fire Control Centre, Cambridge

13.Forbury Place, Reading - Phase I

14.Forbury Place, Reading - Phase 2

15.Harbourside, Bristol

16.Hillingdon Circus

17.KPMG Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London E14

18.M&S, Cheshire Oaks

19.Marlow International, Marlow

20.Merrill Lynch European HQ, London EC1

21.Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial West, London W12

22.One2one, Greenock

23.Postgraduate Accommodation, Wood Lane Studios, Imperial West, London W12

24.Reading International Business Park

25.RSPB Headquarters, Bedfordshire

26.Saurian, Milton Keynes

27.South Cambridgeshire District Council, Cambourne

28. STEAMhouse, Eastside Locks, Birmingham

29.The Angel Building, London N1 (as Executive Architect)

30.Verde SW1, London SW1

31.Vestas, Isle of Wight

32.Wellcroft House, Slough

33.Willis Group, 51 Lime Street, London EC3

34.SAP (UK) Ltd, Feltham

35.Scottish Daily Record, Glasgow

36.Visteon, Basildon

37.Wells & More, London W1

LEED Awards

1.Allianz Headquarters, Istanbul - Leed Gold CI Award

2.Abu Dhabi Plaza, Kazakhstan - LEED Silver Assessed

3.BNYM fitout, Messeturm, Frankfurt - LEED Gold Award

4.BNYM offices, Wroclaw, Poland - LEED Gold Award

5.BNYM expansion, Wroclaw, Poland - LEED Gold Award

6.Kempinski Hotel, Mall of the Emirates, DubaiLEED Silver assessed

7.Khansaheb Lifestyle Mall, Mirdif, DubaiLEED Gold award (in progress)

8.New offices and laboratory, Dubai - LEED Silver assessed

9.Nidakule Atasehir Guney, Istanbul - LEED Gold award

10.Nidakule Atasehir Kuzey, Istanbul - LEED Gold award

11.Nidakule Atasehir Bati, Istanbul - LEED Gold award (in progress)

12.Park Inn, Abu Dhabi Yas Island - LEED Silver assessed

13.Radisson Blu Hotel, Abu Dhabi Yas IslandLEED Silver assessed

14.Tekfen Oz Levant Ofis, Istanbul - LEED Gold Award

Interiors SKA Awards

1.Rio Tinto, London W2 - SKA Gold

2.GE Phase I, Ark, London W6 - SKA Silver

3.GE Phase II, Ark, London W6 - SKA Silver

BRE NEAT Excellent

1.King’s Mill Acute Hospital, Mansfield Nottinghamshire

2.Mansfield Community Hospital, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

design and construction awards/

2023 > British Council for Offices Regional Awards

STEAMhouse, Eastside Locks, Birmingham (Shortlisted)

2022 > RICS Awards - West Midlands Region

STEAMhouse, Eastside Locks, Birmingham (Shortlisted)

2021 > The Plan Awards

Azzedine Alaia, London W1 (Shortlisted)

2020 > Global Leader Infrastructure Forum: International Sustainable Infrastructure Award

Hydroport, Wales

2019 > City Heritage Awards

Ten Trinity Square, London EC3

> British Council for Offices Regional Award - Best Commercial Workplace

No2 Forbury Place, Reading

2018 > Office Agents Society Awards - Best West End Refurbishment / Regeneration

Verde SW1, London SW1

> Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry Design and Construction Awards

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park

> British Council for Offices Regional Awards

Adelphi, London WC2 (Highly Commended)

2017 > UK Property Awards - Best Office Development and Best Office Architecture

Verde SW1, London SW1

2016 > Office Agents Society Awards - West End Development of the Year

Adelphi, London WC2

> Office Agents Society Awards - Best Development Outside Central London No1 Forbury Place Reading

> Best Office Awards Moscow

JTI, Moscow

2015 > Office Agents Society Awards - City Development of the Year

125 Wood Street, London EC2

> Building Awards - Test of Time Awards

M&S Cheshire Oaks

2014 > CIBSE ‘Carbon Champion of the Year’

M&S Cheshire Oaks

> Office Agents Society Awards - West End Development of the Year

62 Buckingham Gate, London SW1

> RICS Awards - Regeneration Category

62 Buckingham Gate, London SW1 (Highly Commended)

2013 > British Council for Offices Regional Awards - Best Refurbished / Recycled Workplace

123 Victoria Street, London SW1

> RIBA National Award

M&S Cheshire Oaks

> RIBA Regional Awards (North West Region)

M&S Cheshire Oaks

> RIBA Sustainability Awards (North West Region)

M&S Cheshire Oaks

2012 > AJ100 International Practice of the Year

2011 > British Council for Offices Regional Awards - Best Corporate Workplace

KPMG, 15 Canada Square, London E14

> RICS London Awards - Sustainability Project of the Year

KPMG, 15 Canada Square, London E14

> Marks & Spencer ‘Plan A Award’ - Most Sustainable Architect

M&S Cheshire Oaks

> RIBA Awards for Architecture - East Midlands Region

Mansfield Community Hospital (Highly Commended)

2010 > British Council for Offices Regional Awards - Best Corporate Commercial Workplace

NAPP Pharmaceuticals HQ, Cambridge Science Park

> British Council for Offices Regional Awards - Best Refurbished / Recycled Workplace

50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park

Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry Design and Construction Awards

berdeen Standard / Absolut Development / Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority / Acred / ADNH (Abu Dhabi National Hotels) / ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation) / ADWEA / AEG Europe / Ahred Real Estate / Alarko Real Estate / Al Ain Museum / ALDAR / Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate / Al Hamra Real Estate Development

/ Allianz Insurance / Allied World Assurance / Al Qudra Broadcasting / Anglo American de Beers / ARC / Argent Related / Arup / Ascot Underwriting / Astrea / Avgur Estate

/ Aviva / AXA / Azzedine Alaia / Bank of America Merrill Lynch / Batıkent Yapi Sanayi ve Ticaret / Bautek A.S / BCM McAlpine / Bell Hammer / Bentall Green Oak /

BioIstanbul / BioMed Realty / Birmingham City University / Blackstone Group / Bloomberg / BNP Paribas / BNY Mellon / Bovis Lendlease / Bristows / Bundesdruckerei /

Buro Happold / Buwog / Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust / Canadian Embassy, Moscow / Candy & Candy / CAPCO / CBRE / Cedar Capital / CEG / Cengiz

Holding / Central Properties / Chrome Hearts / CIN LaSalle / Cisco / City of London Academy / Cofunds / Commerzbank / Corinthia Hotel Group / Corporation of London

/ Cornerstone Investment & Real Estate / Costain / Countryside Properties / CPI / CR City / CR Office / Credit Suisse / Crowne Plaza Hotels / Dacorum Borough Council

/ Daimler Chrysler / Damac / Danfoss / Decathlon / Deloitte / Derwent / Deutsche Bank / Dimension Data / DGV Consulting / Doğuş GYO / du / Dunhill / DWS /

Eastman Group / Ede & Ravenscroft / Emaar Hospitality Group LLC / Emlak Konut / Endurance Estates / EO Engineers Office (Dubai) / Equa Bank / Ernst & Young / Er

Yatırım / Ethical Property Company / Etisalat / Eurofinance Bank / Exxon Mobil / Extensa / F&C Reit / Fenwick / Fiba Gayrimenkul / FIM Group / Firoka / First Bank

/ Formal Investments / Frasers Property / Freshwater / GD Investments / GE Capital / Generali / Gertler / GlassPharms / Global Stream / GMO Group / Goldman Sachs / Goodman / Google / Great Portland Estates / Group M / Grosvenor / GSK / GTN Global Properties / Güneri Insaat A.S / Halk GYO / Hammer AG / Helical Bar / Henderson Global Investors / Henderson Land / Heptares / Hexal / Hilton International / Hochtief / Homerton University Hospital / HOWOGE / HSBC / Huishan Zhang / ICAP / ICKM / ICT Istroconti / IFFCO / IKEA / Imperial College London / Ince Gordon Dadds / Infosys / ING Bank / ING Real Estate / Intellectcom / Intercontinental Hotels Group / Investa / ISG / IşGYO / J&T Global / Jarrold & Son / Jesus College, Cambridge / John Martin Gallery / Johnson Controls / Jones Lang LaSalle / Joseph Homes / JP Morgan / KaDeWe / Kadans / Kalinka Realty / KfW Bank / Khansaheb / Kier Build / Kiler Holding / Knight Frank / Knight Harwood / Koray Inşaat / Korine

Property Partners / KPMG / KR Properties / KSA / Labtech / Laing O’Rourke Middle East Holdings / La Meridien / Landsec / LaSalle Investment / Lendlease / Lesso / Lidl / Loughborough University / M&G Investments / Macquarie Bank / Man Group / Marcol / Marks & Spencer / Marsan AS / Marriott / McLaren / Mercury / Merkur

Development / MFI / MICEX / Microsoft / Miral / Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) / Moody’s / Molson Coors / Morgans Hotel Group / Mott Macdonald / Mouchel / MR Group

/ Multiplex / Napp Pharmaceuticals / National Grid / Nations Bank / Native Land / NATS / NDA / Network Rail / Nextra / New York University / Nicholson Estates

/ NIDA Insaat / Nike / Novartis / Nurol GYO / Oceanic Estates / Open University / Opin Group / Optima Corporation / Orchard Homes / Orchard Street Investments

/ Oxford Properties / Palestra / Panavto / Park City / Pera Gayrimenkul / Pfizer / Phillips / Phoenix Development / Pilsner Urquel / PPF Real Estate / Premier Inn /

Procter & Gamble / Princeton Holdings / Prologis / Protos / PwC / Quantum Homes / Qatar Foundation / Quintain / RAK Properties / R&R Industrial SAS / Radisson

Edwardian / Radisson Blu / Railway Pension Nominees / Ramboll / Red Engineering / Reignwood Investment UK / Reuters / Rezidor / Richemont / Rio Tinto / Robin Oil / Rocco Forte Hotels / Rodrigo Hidalgo / Rönesans Gayrimenkul Yatırım / Rovner Investment Group / Royal Bank of Scotland / Royal Exchange / Royal London / RWE npower

/ SAB Miller / Safestore / Sanofi / SAP / Savills / Second Watch Factory Slava / Servotel / Schlumberger / Scottish Development Agency / Scottish Widows / Segro / Sellar Group / Seniats / Shell / Shiva Hotels / Siemens / Sir Robert McAlpine / Skanska / Skype / Sotheby’s / Southampton Solent University / South Cambridgeshire District Council / Southwark Council / Soyak Inşaat / Standard Life Investments / St John’s College, Cambridge / Staropramen Breweries / Stephenson Harwood / Stone Brewing / Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) / Sun Microsystems / Suse Linux / Swan Operations / Symantec / Syngenta International / Tahincioğlu Gayrimenkul / Talan / Takeda / TAT Immobilen / Taylor Wimpey / TDIC / TechInvest / Tekar / Tekfen Emlak / Telereal Trillium / Tenkhoff Properties / The Arch Company / The London Clinic / The Mercers’ Company / The Royal College of Surgeons of England / The Royal St George’s Golf Club / Tiffany s.r.o. / Tishman Speyer / Tonstate / Transport for London / Travis Perkins / Trilogy / Trinity College, Cambridge / Trinity Hall / Türkiye Finans Katılım Bankasi / UGMK Holding / U+I / UK Expo Pavilion 2020 / University of Cambridge / University of Sheffield / Vakifbank / Vestas / Vinci Construction / VMWare / Vodafone / Voreda / Wates / Welbeck Land / Westminster City Council / Willis Group / WPP / XLB Properties / Zamania / Züblin / Zurich Insurance Group

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Lab design approach & considerations/

Lab design approach & considerations/

Lab design approach & considerations/

Our depth of portfolio in respect life science buildings has allowed us to analyse both our completed buildings and our schemes in the design stages to consider trends and working solutions that then inform the next generation of buildings.

STEINMETZ IMAGE? OR OTHER LAB PROJECT

STEINMETZ IMAGE? OR OTHER LAB PROJECT

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMAGE plot 420?

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMAGE plot 420?

POST OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS OF LAB PROJECTS

POST OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS OF LAB PROJECTS

POST OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS OF LAB PROJECTS

POST OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS OF LAB PROJECTS

ANALYSIS RE-INFORMING LAB DESIGN

ANALYSIS RE-INFORMING LAB DESIGN

ANALYSIS RE-INFORMING LAB DESIGN

ANALYSIS RE-INFORMING LAB DESIGN

SPATIAL ANALYSIS

SPATIAL ANALYSIS

SPATIAL ANALYSIS

SPATIAL ANALYSIS

LEVEL OF SERVICING & COST

LEVEL OF SERVICING & COST

LEVEL OF SERVICING & COST

LEVEL OF SERVICING & COST

ADJACENCY & RELATIONSHIP

ADJACENCY & RELATIONSHIP

ADJACENCY & RELATIONSHIP

ADJACENCY & RELATIONSHIP

LAB ENABLED SPACE

LAB ENABLED SPACE

BEST IN CLASS FACILITIES

BEST IN CLASS FACILITIES

CATEGORY LEVEL 2 (WET LAB) ENABLED

CATEGORY LEVEL 2 (WET LAB) ENABLED

PLUG-&-PLAY LAB

PLUG-&-PLAY LAB

TRANSPARENCY/ LABS ON SHOW

TRANSPARENCY/ LABS ON SHOW

NATURAL LIGHT & VIEWS

NATURAL LIGHT & VIEWS

FLEXIBILITY & ADAPTABILITY

FLEXIBILITY & ADAPTABILITY

KEY TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

key technical considerations

•floor to floor heights

• FLOOR TO FLOOR HEIGHTS

•containment level

• CONTAINMENT LEVEL

•Structural loading

• STRUCTURAL LOADING

•Extract & cooling strategies

• EXTRACT & COOLING STRATEGIES

•fume cupboard exhausts

• FUME CUPBOARD EXHAUSTS

•wet lab drainage

• WET LAB DRAINAGE

•specialist equipment, e.g NMR

• SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT, eg NMR

•Robotics

• ROBOTICS

•noise, vibration

• NOISE, VIBRATION

•storage

• STORAGE

FLEXIBLE LAB BUILDING

OFFICE TO LAB CONVERSION

CHASSIS BUILDING OF MULTIPLE USES

OFFICE TO LAB CONVERSION

Imperial West Master Plan, London W12

Client: Imperial College London

Following a major design competition, we were selected by Imperial College to prepare a masterplan for their new mixed use campus on the former BBC site at Wood Lane, W12.

The Imperial West masterplan creates a new west London campus for Imperial College as part of a new vibrant, truly mixed use urban quarter within the wider White City Opportunity Area. This significant 8 acre urban campus creates a genuine ‘sense of place’ with progressive redevelopment acting as a catalyst to wider urban renewal and regeneration of the local environment.

The masterplan vision creates a range of academic and commercial uses totalling 1.2m sqft and includes: research and technology transfer space, flexible teaching and conference facilities, postgraduate and private residential, hotel and commercial offices, supported with a range of cafés, bars and restaurants, fitness centre and nursery providing active frontages set around a new London square.

Phase 1 comprises 606 postgraduate student accommodation units and 9 key worker flats and Phase 2, the Molecular Sciences Research Hub, a flagship research building which is office and lab-enabled to allow fluctuating uses and spatial allocations over time, was completed and launched in 2019.

Molecular Sciences Research Hub

Student Residential

Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial West, London W12

Client: Imperial College London

The Molecular Sciences Research Hub is the second phase of our 8Ha masterplan for the new West London Campus for Imperial College and forms the centrepiece of the Imperial West campus. The design evolved to include high specification technical and laboratory areas designed as a series of stepped floorplates, 15.0m in depth, arranged around a full height, central atrium space.

The main façade, with its stone and backlit perforated bronze cladding and triple glazed, ventilated curtain wall creates a dynamic frontage to the new Imperial Square.

Core to the scheme is our over-arching design concept where everybody is drawn and welcomed into the building via a clear arrival experience providing open vistas into the ground floor reception and circulation spaces. The transparency of the main atrium glazing draws the eye into the building and to the open floor plates arranged in a ‘U’ shaped form around this dramatic space.

The central, dramatic full height atrium provides an internal environment which engenders creativity and transparency, and encourages the physical and visual connectivity fundamental to innovative research and creates opportunities for constant interaction of students, staff and visitors and those vital serendipitous moments so important in an educational environment.

Flexibility, adaptability and sustainability are core features of the design, which also incorporates an Energy Centre with links to future development phases of the campus. The building has an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating.

The facility was formally launched in April 2019, and incorporates a flagship research facility – the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) –which is the first national centre for the study of reactions, focusing on datacentric chemistry.

Imperial College London is proud of Aukett Swanke’s design for the Molecular Sciences Research Hub at our new White City Campus.

The building s inherent flexibility is highlighted through our fitout of complex and pioneering ne research facilities within the elegant shell and core structure. Our vision to provide a multi-functional building that can support a modern collaborative approach to orld class science ithin the context of Aukett Swanke’s original master plan has been truly realised with this impressive building.

The scheme anchors the main central square in the northern half of the Campus, sitting well with partner buildings, and will be a key part of our longer-term vision for the site.

John Anderson - Director of Financial Strategy Imperial College London

projects in Cambridge/

Central Cambridge

Cambridge - urban

Outlying villages

Aukett Swanke Projects in Cambridge

1/2 Cambridge Science Park

1. Napp Pharmaceuticals

Client: Trinity College Cambridge

Plots 194 / 196 / 198 : 12,089sqm / £20m / offices

2. Napp / Bard Pharmaceuticals (plot 183)

3500sqm / £7m / office redevelopment

3. Plot 420

Client: Trinity Hall

5,100sqm / £11m

Flexible office / laboratory space

4. Domus (Plot 430)

Client: Trinity Hall Cambridge / U+I (formerly Development Securities)

Occupier: Takeda

5865sqm / £14m / offices and research laboratories

5. Plot 440

Client: Trinity Hall + Roebuck

6335sqm (68190sqft) / £20.74m / offices and research laboratories

6. The Bradfield Centre

Client: Trinity College

5100sqm / £12m / Park Hub Building / offices

7. The Hub + Village Hotel

Client: Trinity College Cambridge

9,050sqm / Offices + hotel, gym, conferencing, restaurant and café

3 St John’s Innovation Park

Client: St John’s College

Operator: Central Working 20 acre masterplan

4 Radio House

Client: Orchard Street Investment Management

4,562sqm(GIA) / 4,021sqm (NIA) / £8m / offices

5 Hills Road

Client: Trinity Hall Cambridge

Feasibility study for office / hotel / residential use

6 Addenbrooke’s Hospital Masterplan & Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Client: Countryside Properties / Liberty Property Trust with Addenbrookes NHS Trust

215,000sqm / research and treatment and related support activities, landscaping and parking

7 Cambridge South Masterplan

Client: Pemberton Trust / Jesus College

167.4 Ha site (412 acres) / Masterplan: 85,000sqm

• Science Park

• 1200 residential units

• School - 2Ha

• Community Hub: 15,000sqm £475m o/a value

8 Granta Park

1. Biomed Realty (Plot 6)

Client: Biomed Realty

Tenant: Gilead Sciences

11,700sqm / £24m / office and laboratories

2. Heptares Therapeutics

Client: Biomed Realty

Tenant: Heptares Therapeutics Inc

4,304sqm / laboratory and technical research facilities

9 Cambourne Business Park

Client: Development Securities (now U+I)

Phase 1: 10,000sqm / offices

Phase 2: 17,000sqm / offices

Phase 3: (SCDC): 6,500sqm / Council HQ

Phase 4: (Plot 4010): 5,200sqm

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park

Client: Trinity College Cambridge

C ommissioned by Park owner Trinity College, the 55,000sqft Bradfield Centre is named after the biologist, entrepreneur and former senior bursar who founded Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe.

Our crescent-shaped design is inspired by the sinuous landform of its lakeside setting. A triple-height atrium maximises internal connectivity and views towards the lake, allowing an abundance of daylight into the building and enabling a dynamic open working environment that encourages collaboration and creative thinking.

The new interiors deliberately expose the concrete structure and combine accent furniture and details with simple yet refined details to provide a dynamic and inspiring interior appealing to the building’s tech entrepreneur target tenant profile. The main entrance to the building is animated by a social hub, including a café, breakout areas and meeting rooms, as well as spaces for collaborative working. Upper floors can be configured as open or cellular spaces to suit the tenant businesses. Conceived as a key building at the heart of the park, the facility is a vibrant centre for research and development, offering incubator space for early stage businesses and becoming the natural meeting point for those active in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in Cambridge. The building achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, and was a winner at the 2017 Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry Design and Construction Awards, and shortlisted in the 2018 BCO Regional Awards, and the 2018 Office Agents Society Development Awards.

“I do indeed love the building and am convinced, when the history of the Science Park is eventually written, it will be one of the pivotal moments - the combination of its architecture and its use, which are inseparable”

John Tweddle, Partner - Bidwells Head of Fund Management

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park

EAST AND EST ELEVATIONS

LI TING THE S IRITS

D Lifting the Spirits

C “Wow – what an amazing space” S

I do indeed love the building and am convinced, when the history of the Science Park is eventually written, it will be one of the pivotal moments - the combination of its architecture and its use, which are inseparable

Members building with comfortable spirits

Following the curve of the lake, the building nestles into the environment and feels very much an integral part of its natural surroundings.That makes the Bradfield Centre a very special place

I do indeed love the building and am convinced, when the history of the Science Park is eventually written, it will be one of the pivotal moments - the combination of its architecture and its use, which are inseparable

Members love the flexibility of being able to move around the building and work from a variety of open-access desks or areas with comfortable seating. It’s this change of scene that boosts their spirits as well as their productivity levels

THE BRADFIELD CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE PARK : BCO AWARDS 2018

THE BRADFIELD CENTRE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE PARK SECTION

THE BRADFIELD CENTRE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE PARK SECTION

Napp Pharmaceuticals Cambridge Science Park

Client: Trinity College, Cambridge / Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings

Three corporate buildings with a full tenant fitout for Napp Pharmaceuticals which develops an existing campus on Trinity College’s Cambridge Science Park. At completion, the project was winner of the BCO Regional Award for Best Corporate Workplace.

The campus development is alongside their existing UK headquarters and production facility and comprises a cluster of three 3 storey buildings totalling 12,089sqm set around a south-facing courtyard. The buildings employ passive energy saving features in the configuration and elevational treatment. Existing mature trees, along with the new courtyard and water feature, serve to create an impressive approach to the new facilities.

COMPLETED PROJECTS FEASIBILITY STUDIES

1. PLOT 1

2. STEINMETZ BUILDING

3. PROJECT SAPPHIRE / GILEAD BUILDING

4. PORTWAY BUILDING

5. MILSTEIN BUILDING

6. AARON KLUG BUILDING

Project Sapphire, Granta Park, Cambridge

Project Sapphire, Granta Park, Cambridge

Client: BioMed Realty

90,000sqft NIA of new office accommodation arranged over three storeys for one of the leading international biotechnology companies. The new building enables them to operate in exemplar facilities in a very flexible environment to meet current needs, planned growth and evolving working patterns, including future proofing for laboratory uses.

The design is an embodiment of quality, simplicity and elegance built to allow for rapid construction to respect the tenant’s occupation date. The building signifies a significant step change in design quality for the Park, providing visual intrigue and a dramatic backdrop to the established landscaped setting.

•Exceptionally fast track delivery programme for 130,000sqft three storey building including Pre-let Tenant Bid, Agreement for Lease and Shell and Core construction

•Plot identified within the wider masterplan for Granta Park and associated liaison

•6 months total period from first meeting with potential prelet tenant and start on site via a single stage competitively tendered D+B procurement process

•18 months total programme from inception to hand over of Shell and Core including detailed liaison with pre-let tenant and heir fit out team

•Early access provided to the tenant’s fit-out contractor 2 months prior to Shell and Core completion

•Elegant repetitive design concept to facilitate rapid construction – linear rectangular building form with highly regular pre-cast structural grid and modular cladding systems

•Design for office use but future proofed for subsequent use as high quality laboratory functions

•Detail Design continued through the Planning Application Determination period

•Pro-active and positive contractor performance and attitude

•Close liaison with contractor to ensure high quality and smooth sub-contractor design package procurement and delivery

•Close collaboration with the tenant and their design team to ensure a positive and well-coordinated Shell and Core and tenant fit out process

•Delivered successfully as a very high quality scheme to BCO norms, below Cost Plan at £165/sqft and Completed on Programme

4.0 DESIGN PROPOSALS

4.4 PROPOSED ELEVATIONS

The elevations to the Site 6 building are an embodiment of quality, simplicity and elegance.

The regularly alternating, staggered panels of glazing and metal cladding establish a strong symmetry and purity of expression.

The east and west elevations are mirror images of one another. The plant room and conjoined plant enclosure are set back at roof level from the southern side to reduce visual impact on the open space to the south.

Due to its orientation and reduced solar gain the north elevation employs a higher percentage of clear glazing, however a consistent architectural language is maintained through the distribution of solid and clear elements.

The north elevation contains the main reception atrium which is fully glazed at ground and first floors and centrally located.This feature defines and celebrates the building’s entrance providing clear views and a seamless transition from external to internal environments. A glass fritted canopy reinforces the entrance portal whilst providing protection from the elements.

The south elevation is the prime elevation to the Phase 1 development of Granta Park. It is highly exposed with large expanses of wildflower meadows forming the boundary to the cricket oval which informs the southern aspect. The building responds to this pre-eminent setting by displaying a dynamic interpretation of elevational concept.Two ‘skins’ are used to form the façade. An inner layer forms the external envelope and is a simple arrangement of clear glazing, fritted glazing and opaque spandrel glazing. Overlaid and standing proud of this surface is a cantilevered, perforated metal screen. The screen is a facsimile of the ‘open’ and ‘closed’ façade concept and when viewed in conjunction with the inner skin produces a three dimensional representation of the three other elevations. Functionally, the screen provides solar protection to the southern façade but it also charts the diurnal passage of the sun; casting ever changing shadows on the inner surface, creating depth and articulation.

The ground floors to the north and southern facades are recessed. This provides additional solar protection to the glass on the southern elevation whilst helping to emphasize the ethereal nature of the upper storeys.

PROJECT SAPPHIRE, GRANTA PARK, CAMBRIDGE BCO AWARDS 2018

3. Routes and methods for major plant replacement

3. Routes and methods for major plant replacement

Please refer to M&E Access & Maintenance Strategy as part of the Stage 3 report (25/09/2015).

Please refer to M&E Access & Maintenance Strategy as part of the Stage 3 report (25/09/2015).

4. Accessibility for local plant and service distribution

4. Accessibility for local plant and service distribution

FACADE DETAIL

The building is adjacent to one of the main access roads around the Park and all main utility services are located in this road, on the same side as the new building. It will be straightforward to make further connection to these services in future. The incoming utility services provided as part of the Shell & Core contract have been sized to accommodate the potential future laboratory use, which is significantly greater than the day 1 office use, therefore future upgrade is unlikely but is easily achievable.

The building is adjacent to one of the main access roads around the Park and all main utility services are located in this road, on the same side as the new building. It will be straightforward to make further connection to these services in future. The incoming utility services provided as part of the Shell & Core contract have been sized to accommodate the potential future laboratory use, which is significantly greater than the day 1 office use, therefore future upgrade is unlikely but is easily achievable.

5. The potential for the building to be extended, horizontally and or vertically.

5. The potential for the building to be extended, horizontally and or vertically.

The building could potentially be extended vertically, as the plant area could be removed to add extra floors as necessary, however, due to planning conditions (height limit) this is unlikely to be considered. The building could be enlarged horizontally, adding one extra 9m module on both East and West sides. These extra bays would still be covered by travel distances for fire strategy and extra cores would not be needed. However, the increased building occupancy would affect the cores layouts (enlarged

The building could potentially be extended vertically, as the plant area could be removed to add extra floors as necessary, however, due to planning conditions (height limit) this is unlikely to be considered. The building could be enlarged horizontally, adding one extra 9m module on both East and West sides. These extra bays would still be covered by travel distances for fire strategy and extra cores would not be needed. However, the increased building occupancy would affect the cores layouts (enlarged escape stairs, additional toilet provision, etc).

FIGURE 05. STAGE 4 - FUTURE USE TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN - NTS

4 - FUTURE USE : TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

FIGURE 05. STAGE 4 - FUTURE USE - TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN - NTS

The entire team displayed an uncanny ability to think critically, act practically, openly test assumptions and listen to the client. truly outstanding group of sincere, focused and passionate professionals who take ownership not just of the design but of the entire project’s success. Outstanding.

Doug Cuff, Client Director for BioMed Realty

The Steinmetz Building, Granta Park, Cambridge

Client: BioMed Realty / Tenant: Heptares

Refurbishment of an existing 36,000sqft office building on Granta Park, converting it to laboratory use. Our involvement on the project came about after the building became vacant once the existing tenants moved next door into the Sapphire Building that we completed last year. We advised the Client / Landlord, BioMed Reality, on several options on how to develop the dated building, such as stripping back to the frame, overcladding etc. Once a tenant, Heptares, became interested in occupying the building though, the shell and core scope reduced; however, we were then appointed by them to design their laboratory fitout ready for their occupation.

The interior layout underwent a major change to make the floorplate workable for a full working Laboratory. This included creating new risers, increasing ceiling heights, installation of new plant, and bringing in as much natural light into the labs as possible, all while working with existing structural constraints.

We were also asked to enhance certain areas of the shell and core, including the front entrance and reception, toilets and the installation of a new polycarbonate roof.

During construction, we were asked by Heptares to also investigate the possibility of extending the facility to house two Electron Microscopes.

Life Sciences Cluster

The concept is to deliver a building which answers the specific functions set out in the brief, yet provides a flexible framework for the building to evolve over time and adapt to the changing needs for successful and collaborative research, science and business. Diagrammatically this amalgamates a range of flexible lab blocks which can be brought together within a single enclosure to create a community of science organisations. The overall structure is to be simple, repetitive and efficient with high flexibility to support a variety of block sizes.

The Lab blocks are considered as an agile set of volumes across the floors that enable a variety of locations for the activities and connected with central walkways on the upper levels. At ground floor level a central connecting space provide amenity spaces and direct links to the surrounding landscape gardens. Services are located on the lower Heavy Floor, roof level, intermediary floors and routed vertically by risers on the ends of all blocks providing full flexibility for any strategic layouts and future changes. The floor levels change from a solid slab to a perforate one on alternate levels enabling labs to be below or above their localised plant rooms. This allows the use of timber to reduce the carbon footprint. The envelope acts to protect, insulate, filter, ventilate and harvest energy. It also enables views in and out. The design will be blended with the structural frame and internal activities.

STEAMhouse 2, Eastside Locks, Birmingham

Client: Birmingham City University

A unique landmark project that demonstrates Birmingham City University’s commitment to creating environments which foster collaboration. The brief is based on the learning and innovation concept of STEAM, which places the Arts disciplines alongside subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths to increase innovation.

The STEAMhouse project forms an environment which encourages knowledge sharing and collaborative working between different academic disciplines, artists and commercial businesses, creating a fertile ground from which future business will emerge and grow.

The building incorporates the historic and locally listed Belmont Works, restored from its fire damaged state of dereliction, whose industrial heritage as part of a Victorian factory complex is a key driver for the design. A large extension to the rear of the building draws on its industrial heritage and creates a space where the products, services and companies of the future will be created through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Central to the building is the ‘STEAM Engine’, a collaboration zone which runs through the entire building, culminating with roof terrace (or exterior collaboration / social space) on the fourth floor. Arranged around the ‘STEAM Engine’, creating an internal street scene, is the more private accommodation of the building. A series of studio, office, learning and workshop spaces accommodating the different disciplines, allowing each to have their own identity, facing onto the more public space. This allows contrasting activities to seamlessly take place while providing maximum opportunity for knowledge sharing and collaboration.

The brownfield site on which the building is situated included the fire damaged, locally listed Belmont Works. The former Victorian factory building has been carefully restored and sensitively integrated into the STEAMhouse project, breathing fresh life and purpose into the once derelict structure.

The restored Belmont Works has been made front and centre of the scheme, acting as the gateway into the building and the public component of the project. The ground floor of the existing building houses a café open to all, and offers clear views into the inner workings of the building as well as the adjacent artist studio. The design of the building works on the premise that anyone entering the building should immediately understand how the building functions, allowing the visitor to feel relaxed and at home in the environment.

The BREEAM Excellent building’s sustainability targets were achieved by adopting a range of different passive and hybridised approaches. In Belmont Works, natural ventilation works in harmony with the active ventilation system to reduce the energy consumption of the building, while discreet solar shading integrated onto the handmade timber windows of the ornate brick and terracotta south façade of the restored building reduce excess solar gain. In the new extension, thermally massive exposed concrete soffits and walls help regulate the internal temperature. Heavily insulated external walls help keep the building warm in the cooler months and cool in the warmer months, while deep reveals to apertures and solar shading minimise unwanted heat loads from solar gain.

The principal challenge throughout was to deliver the project given supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic. The design and layouts are complex, and achieving a successful marriage of the traditional Belmont structure and the new innovative image of the new build portions of the building has been difficult. Despite all of this the project has been delivered with only minor delays and completely on budget.

BELMONT WORKS PRIOR TO REFURBISHMENT

STEAMhouse, Eastside Locks, Birmingham

Primary Elements

Thoughts

Centre Court Shopping Centre, Wimbledon

We were asked transform Centre Court, a failing shopping centre in Wimbledon, into a mixed use Hybrid that retains parts of the successful retail, creates agile use commercial / community / events space out of the remaining ground and first floor, replaces the anchor store with a combination of subterranean logistics and multitenure residential at ground and above, and adds new levels of timber structure for agile workplace / education / lab-enabled offices above the existing retail chassis. We worked up a range of circulation and massing options and explored different use compositions. These all revitalised the heritage parts, engaged with and opened up to the street sides to create a new enticing and desirable retail and leisure experience for the local and transient communities. These were then value tested to focus on the one that achieved the best new community demand and commercial value, which was equally welcomed by the council and developer

Design Strategies

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The Reinvention of Business + Science Parks: New Fields of Enterprise

The opportunities at typical Business or Science Parks is to transform the sometimes stagnant experience of traditional sub-urban or rural workplace parks into a new narrative of invigorating and agile fields of enterprise. Setting out a master plan across neighbouring plots of land can be dictated by vehicles and their car parks, but our vision for these fields is to mark out a flexible balance of independent territories and communal terrains, often blending them for a relaxed but rejuvenating variety of settings in which to enhance and propel forward an organisation’s or individual’s ambitions and activities.

As a team we engage the fundamental design drivers of people’s wellbeing and climate harmony in places of learning and work. A healthy place for both the inhabitants and its landscape is essential and highly desirable for the acts of learning, research, innovation, socialising, producing, thinking, trading, exporting, playing, resting and visiting. Essential to creating a fresh new entrepreneurial experience of learning and working in the landscape is to blend an agile variety of work settings from inside to outside, enabling people to interact between organisations for sharing knowledge and igniting new enterprises. The design approach for a series of connected fields of enterprise requires a strategic blend of these visionary principles around people and climate with pragmatic infrastructure layers. We consider the landscape as an indigenous base of natural amenity overlaid with a grid of movements defining routes and building territories. Buildings are rooted in these territories, plots, but spread their activities beyond the enclosure, vehicles are welcomed but calmed and embedded to ensure a balance with pedestrian and electric movement. The vision and its strategies look far into the future to allow for significant changes of use, phasing options, and flexible ownership and leasing models.

Cultural Baggage

Often being defined by cars, traditional work parks result in island buildings set in landscapes that provide great views but little interaction, establishing monotonous working cultures of driving to a building, working and looking out, then driving home.

Cultural Transformation

A complete change in the culture will be sought for an interactive and landscape driven learning and working environment that can enable and enhance an entrepreneurial education or business organisation’s ethos, as well as the minds of its leaders and employees.

An urban evolution has been taking place enabling people and businesses to operate, meet and socialise anywhere within and around clusters of buildings, so we believe the traditional work park has the opportunity to react and reinvent itself, embracing and enhancing these liberations and indeed creating new market leading scenarios with the benefit of highly agile buildings and engaging landscapes.

Learning and working settings need to accommodate crowd and solo activities and a healthy range in between. Social working is a highly productive and cross fertilising norm of urban life and can be integrated with more specialist private and quiet places in a new land based campus, again both inside and outside.

The landscape can provide exercise amenities across the terrain, mingling and intertwining with mobility routes and places of rest.

A rich variety of tenants is sought for these new fields of enterprise, including media, medi-health and life sciences, heritage, technology and innovation, agriculture and food technology, meteorology, housing and guest accommodation. They make up the ingredients for a highly innovative blend of knowledge, innovation and product that will inform and drive this proposed new cultural model.

Agile Buildings

We propose a range of building types and scales that would be both speculative and where required bespoke.

Industrial scale volumes, or Mid Techs, are highly flexible in their use and adaptability, able to accommodate film studios, technology, R+D, education, sciences and workplace.

Studio scale structures on multi levels would be equally agile, offering smaller tenancies for workplace, research, laboratories, recreation, retail, lodgings and blends of a number of these.

Active Landscape

We would design with the topography minimising cut and fill, maximising the natural benefits of the indigenous terrain and its passive environmental benefits. Terraces, slopes, steps, plateaus, water flows, ponds all worked into the natural and new land forms and infrastructure.

We would blend the natural with the manmade, integrating places to work, socialising, relaxing and exercise, to encourage choices for social intensity and quiet reflection, supporting and inspiring the wellbeing and performance of organisations and their people.

Blended Mobility

Cars and service vehicles are inevitable and essential, but the urban move towards E-vehicles is accelerating and offers this new land based model the chance to design for a balance, even a bias towards pedestrians, cycles, scooters and an array of new devices. Commuter vehicles can be parked in clusters embedded in landscape forms, service vehicles controlled by route separations and preference given to companies with electric fleets.

Healthy Intensification + Expansion

The strategic layout of the terrain would allow for phasing the field developments and intensifying both the mix of uses and the number of building levels where appropriate. Large organisations like film studios and the university need to be able to adapt and grow to suit their market, SME’s need to be able to expand and contract within the buildings and their territories. A flexible master plan and its infrastructure needs to be the agile hardware that can accommodate regular upgrades to its inhabitants and their operations, the software of this new environment.

Collective Identity

This energetic collection of people and their activities is driving a new cultural identity for the place they will share, and can be a model for national and international acclaim, attracting a sustainable stream of tenants and followers.

Perhaps a new title is required reflecting the landscape and its range of technology smart inhabitants, such as Techscape, Landworks or Fields of Enterprise.

Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial West, London W12

Luke Schuberth

Managing Director - UK E luke.schuberth@aukettswanke.com

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