Culture and Civic
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About us
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Approach to the design of cultural and civic architecture
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Case studies
About Us We have a strong team of expert architects, technologists, interior and landscape designers with a great range of experience and the ability to bring a joined up approach to any project, from the consultation and planning stages to final interior mood-modelling and landscaping.
Education
Transport + Infrastructure
Student Accommodation + Housing
Retail
Office + Industrial Workplace
Culture + Civic
Healthcare
Bluelight + Defence
Our approach is all about getting the best out of a space, aesthetically and functionally. We’re inventive enough to push the boundaries, and experienced enough to know what works. We’re committed too, to using innovative techniques to minimise our impact on the natural environment, and to maximise our positive impact on the built environment. Our projects span the following sectors: • • • • • • • •
Education Transport + Infrastructure Student Accommodation + Housing Retail Office + Industrial Workplace Healthcare Bluelight + Defence Urban Design + Masterplanning
You can see further case studies over on our website www.jeffersonsheard.com
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About Us MISSION STATEMENT
Jefferson Sheard Architects - Head Office Fulcrum 2 Sidney Street Sheffield S1 4RH
“To achieve architecture which meets the requirements of our clients and the wider community by providing a level of service which exceeds expectation and is delivered with professionalism, freshness, principled behaviour, honesty and humour by people who prefer to work for Jefferson Sheard”
Tel: 0114 276 1651
2007 1980
Relocated to The Fulcrum
We opened our
in Sheffield’s Creatve 2003
Peterborough office
Quarter
Jefferson Sheard Architects 10 Margaret Street London W1W 8RL
John Hyams becomes Board Director
Tel: 0870 240 4889 Founded by Bryan Jefferson and Gerry Sheard in Sheffield, 1957
1995
2000
Award-winning 50-
Mark Fannon becomes
We opened our
strong team
Board Director
Manchester office
working across the UK in various sectors
Jefferson Sheard Architects Unit 9, The Forum Minerva Business Park Lynchwood Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE2 6FT Tel: 01733 375 600
1964
1992
We opened our London
Tom Rhys Jones becomes
office
Managing Director
2014 Manchester office relocated to King Street
Jefferson Sheard Architects Jefferson Sheard Architects 53 King Street Manchester M2 4LQ Tel: 0161 359 3254
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Approach to the design of cultural buildings and civic architecture Our approach to designing civic and cultural buildings is centred around the people and communities they serve. In addition to enriching the lives of people, we understand that innovative and inspirational design can lead to an increase in revenue for the Institution. We aim for our architecture to represent an Institution’s mission whilst also stimulating economic development for the area.
Museums + Visitor Centres
Our work spans across the sectors, something which enhances our work in the cultural and civic sector. We have worked with communities and organisations to design museums, galleries, retail developments, libraries, theatres and public spaces. Our process is firmly built upon collaboration with our client and end user, we support you through every step of the process to understand your needs and to realise a building which will enable operational efficiency, flexibility, inspiration and sustainability.
Retail
Masterplanning + Public Realm
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Theatres
Relevant Experience Museums + Visitor Centres U BOAT VISITOR EXHIBITION CENTRE, WOODSIDE FERRY TERMINAL Client: Merseytravel One of the most unusual projects we have ever undertaken has been the creation of a Visitor attraction centred upon a sawn-up submarine! A decommissioned German U-boat U-534 has been rescued by Merseytravel, which owns and operates the Mersey Ferries. One of only four remaining in the world the German U-boat has opened to the public as a visitor attraction on Liverpool Docks. It now forms part of a wider exhibition explaining the link between the ferries and the history of underwater warfare. The U Boat forms part of the purpose built visitor centre, an extension to the existing ferry terminal. The ship is now the star attraction of the centre and includes various interactive exhibits, audio visual shows and interpretative materials that fully explain the story of theU-534. The main design challenge was the relocation of ‘U-534’. For technical reasons the boat was cut into sections for transportation by water to its new site using a floating crane. These separate sections have been finished with glazed panels over the end of each section which allows visitors to see inside the submarine from specially built viewing platforms. Movement within the space is created by means of a number of ramps which allow the visitor to engage with the submarine but also offers full access to all areas. Formerly part of the Historic Warships Museum on Merseyside, the U-534 scheme complements the wider regeneration of the Woodside area.
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Relevant Experience Museums + Visitor Centres KELHAM ISLAND COLLECTION MANAGEMENT + VISITOR CENTRE Client: Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust We designed and procured a new Collections Management and Visitor Centre for the Trust’s famous Kelham Island Museum. The museum is a complex of buildings upon a nine-hundred year old man-made island in the River Don and we sought to preserve and build upon its distinctive character. Our part new-build / part remodelling design creates a new mezzanine level, transport themed gallery (housing a star exhibit in the Simplex car); a large Collections Management space and, outside, a stone “garden” to accomodate the many stone carvings rescued by the museum from demolished buildings. The project was supported by a £1.1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and was completed in early 2005.
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Relevant Experience Museums + Visitor Centres JOHN CLARE VISITOR CENTRE Client: John Clare Trust We were part of a multi-disciplinary team appointed by the trust with the aim of developing the John Clare cottage into an environmental and educational centre of excellence, writers’ retreat, and visitor centre. The centre sets a creative benchmark for education and environmental training. The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the John Clare Trust funding of £1.27m in May 2007. The objective was to design and build a visitors centre for the public, incorporating a cafe, shop and exhibition space. To re-design and renovate the John Clare cottage into a learning experience for educational tours with artifacts which links to the visitors centre, with an external trail around the land. We were able to use our creativity and flair for this centre creating an atmosphere that visitors feel comfortable in, with a focal point for meetings and educational tours for students. The cottage has stone floors, lime-washed walls and ceilings and natural wood floor beams to re-create the vision of John Clare’s cottage. The design incorporates a striking opening reception area for visitors to ensure their first impressions are of strong anticipation and the new entrance lobby will create a link from the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ architecture simulating the time throughout history to the present day. In order to give better access to the exhibition space JSA have created a new visitors path that flows through the centre allowing guests clear and simple negotiation. Alongside these elements, the design also includes facility rooms for alternative interactions and a staff private area.
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Relevant Experience Museums + Visitor Centres FORTH RAIL BRIDGE VISITOR CENTRE + ATTRACTION Client: Network Rail We were part of Hyder’s team for this exciting design competition to design a new visitor centre (including cafe, retail and museum) at the famous Forth Rail Bridge in Edinburgh. Our concept was to create a building which appears, externally, to “grow out of / form part of” the landscape of the rocky outcrop upon which the rocky outcrop upon which the Fife cantilever is founded. The fortifications and defensive architecture built upon Inchgarvie were a valid reference point and illustrate how man-made structures can, unselfconsciously, reflect and be in empathy with the terrain upon which they are constructed.
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Relevant Experience Museums + Visitor Centres NORTHWICH CULTURAL CENTRE Client: RIBA / Northwich Regeneration Partnership Northwich Regeneration Partnership with the support of the RIBA Competition Office launched an open design competition seeking architects with exceptional design skills to develop proposals for a new Cultural Centre at Baron’s Quay in Northwich, Cheshire. ‘The new Centre will provide a focus for community activity and will be a key building that links together a number of important buildings within mid Cheshire, providing a range of public activities including galleries, performance, dance, restaurant, and tourist information.’ RIBA Competitions Jefferson Sheard’s iconic and inspiring design; ‘The Salt Crystal’, was one of 5 shortlisted schemes from a total of 112 entries from the UK, Europe and beyond. The architectural forms are derived from the natural formation of salt rock, a mineral which has been excavated in Northwich for over 2,000 years. At the heart of the composition is the main concrete mass of the theatre auditorium; a multi-functional performance space for theatre, music, conference and events. The restaurant, bars and public galleries overlook the attractive riverside setting. The leaning glass prow creates a landmark and focal point to the river frontage and a springing point for a future pedestrian bridge. The crystalline geometries provide a dramatic backdrop to a new outdoor space for performance, recreation, and river activities. The external space is terraced to follow the natural contours of the site forming an amphitheatre and addressing approaches from the existing town centre as well as future developments.
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Relevant Experience Retail + Regeneration DEANSGATE ARCHES Client: Westport Developments Ltd Jefferson Sheard was commissioned for the refurbishment and regeneration of this Grade II* listed Victorian undercroft to form retail units linked to Rochdale Canal, Whitworth Street West, G-Mex and Metrolink Station. The scheme has been integrated into the fabric of the city through the creation of boardwalks which have improved pedestrian access from nearby facilities, such as G-MEX and Bridgewater Hall. The broadwalks allow access to all twelve arches enabling flexible use of the arched structures and individual tenant’s requirements to be incorporated within the scope of the original planning permission. The listed elements of the building were carefully protected both in detail and setting.
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Relevant Experience Retail Pizza Express Client: Pizza Express
We were appointed as Implementation Architect, Project Manager and Designer for the restaurant fit outs for Pizza Express responsible for a rolling programme of new restaurants. Sites developed include Chester City Centre and Manchester Piccadilly. These schemes demonstrate our wider interior design capability. Each restaurant has a different interior design theme based on the history and location of the restaurant building. For example; Chester The restaurant at Chester is located within a building which was formally a telephone exchange. We used this as inspiration for the design of the interior. We incorporated a large image of an x-ray of a 1970’s Trim Phone on two walls and had six original Trim Phones mounted on the wall by the entrance. Some of the tiling on the back wall is also inspired by the patterns formed by using Morse code. Manchester Piccadilly At Manchester unusually, the Pizza Express at Piccadilly Gardens is a new build, but we wanted some reference to the site’s previous incarnations, so we researched the history of the facing gardens and took inspiration from it. A rich palette of materials has been chosen to give texture to the bar and restaurant. Along the back wall of the open kitchen, reconstituted black granite gives a dramatic backdrop and suspended walnut rafts and a slatted timber panel flow seamlessly into the smooth timber bench which opens onto the gardens alfresco dining area.
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Relevant Experience Retail Marks and Spencer Simply Food Client: Marks and Spencer
Jefferson Sheard worked with Marks and Spencer, on The Marks and Spencer ‘Simply Food’ roll-out and fast-track program, throughout the UK. This included over 25 built stores in a variety of non-purpose built units, from inner city, to local high streets and retail parks. The store layouts identify the ‘tills’ as a focus for both the entrance and the exit. A defined pattern of routes direct the customer through the store to the ‘point of sale’. Views along the aisles, to retail elevations determine the locations of both the aisles and the units. Design features, colours, signage and ‘design tools’ ensure that the overall corporate proposals are clearly translated into the scheme. Externally the front entrance screens, doors and new colour schemes update the shop appearance providing an attractive invitation to customers.
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Relevant Experience Retail HSBC Retail and fit out office / UK roll out programme Client: HSBC Retail
Jefferson Sheard understand that well planned environments can improve sales, communications and a retailer’s performance and this has been a key factor in our effective space planning measures. We presented banking as a retail activity by creating modern and customer friendly interactive spaces. HSBC Business Banking We delivered a model for Business Banking Centres focused on the ‘Business Customer’. Jefferson Sheard had to differentiate the Business Centres from the Retail Branches whilst maintaining the DNA of the HSBC brand. The result was an improvement of the quality of the interior environment and customer experience. HSBC Premier Banking This involved progressing the innovative Retail Roll out programme and applying a similar process to the ‘Premier’ concept and branding. We developed the concepts into working operational branches and developed space planning layouts and construction drawings. HSBC Staff Room and Offices Creating a new concept for the staff areas by identify and formulating a unique division of staff areas, recognising a distinct change from work and break time This was helped by relaxing the front of house brand colours developing a different theme and colour scheme for the staff areas.
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Relevant Experience Retail + Infrastructure T1 Manchester Airport Client: Manchester Airport Group PLC
The main retail scheme is the third phase of the re configuration of Terminal 1, to create a new outbound control facility, retail environment and a new food & beverage facility on the Level 03 mezzanine. Jefferson Sheard Architects were appointed to take ownership of the design from RIBA Stage C and transformed a high end design aspiration into a deliverable solution whilst still maintaining an artistic narrative. Jefferson Sheard engaged in hands on design development and site role, engaging with a multitude of stakeholders from security specialist to international concessionaires and tuner prize nominated artists. The innovative artistic elements, bulkheads and lighting features were all developed and installed within an existing live terminal, culminating in a customer environment that not only exceeds expectations but provides the “wow” factor. The scheme formed an essential part of Manchester Airport’s development strategy and enabled the transfer of retail and waiting areas from landside to a to a secure airside environment. Manchester Airport’s T1 Retail and Security Redevelopment has recently been recognised for it’s innovation and excellence by winning the Out of Town Retail Scheme Gold Award at the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) Gold Awards 2009.
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Relevant Experience Retail + Infrastructure Barnsley Transport Interchange Client:
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
The Interchange is a flagship development in the Remaking Barnsley Strategic Development Framework - the town’s 30 year masterplan and needed to improve connection between public transport facilities and create an engaging passenger environment, complete with cafés and retail areas. The high quality, contemporary, fully enclosed passenger environment comprises a bus concourse, retail facilities, offices and bridge link over to the existing rail station. Bright and inviting, the design marks a real departure from the colourless, characterless architecture it replaces. The new bridge, a covered extension to the interchange building itself, gives a seamless transition between rail and road transport. Sustainability has been maximised through the use of sustainable source and recyclable materials, and design features that use natural daylight and ventilation. Clearly identifiable pedestrian routes link into the existing urban fabric and future developments included in the Masterplan. The bus concourse is a ‘glazed street’ which uses EFTE (the material used in the Eden Projects bubbly biospheres). It’s clear, allowing light to flood in, recyclable, tough, lightweight and designed to melt safely in the event of a fire.
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Relevant Experience Masterplanning + Public Realm WAVERLEY STEPS, EDINBURGH Client:
Network Rail
The famous steps at Edinburgh’s Waverley Station, from Princes Street to the station concourse need to facilitate increased accessibility and a new, more effective circulation from street level. This is a work in progress; a technically challenging job with planning restrictions affecting the adjoining Grade A listed hotel, and the logistics of reorganising the station approach. Not only is the area a World Heritage Site and Conservation Area, but our client does not own the adjoining hotel or the shopping mall, so sensitivity to our neighbours and the surroundings is key! We also have to carefully balance the history and the historic appeal of the station’s architecture with contemporary needs and modern design. The result is a structure with presence and appeal, but a ‘light-touch’, not competing with the grand sandstone buildings that surround it. Fully glazed, it won’t interrupt the surrounds - it will blend in, but will be striking in its own right too. The new station entrance will create a more inviting, visible entrance, and vastly improves access, especially for disabled users. We’ve designed lift and escalator routes to and from street level, and a new over bridge to accommodate the increased pedestrian numbers, with easier access to platforms. The structure needed an innovative solution, since we have to work without infringing on adjoining buildings. Columns run down the centre of the walkway to split the flow of passengers, and to create a self-supported structure.
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Relevant Experience Theatre Design + Acoustics LUBETKIN THEATRE, EAST DURHAM COLLEGE Value: Client:
£21m East Durham College
Bringing together two existing campuses, the client’s aim was to provide a purpose built, modern, state of the art learning facility capable of delivering a full range of academic and vocational courses. We were appointed to develop the initial design, paying particular attention to sustainability, flexibility, space utilisation, and budget requirements. The new College incorporates the only dedicated theatre in the East Durham area - a facility which is open to both students and the general public for a wide range of events and performances. The eagerly anticipated 220 seat theatre, in the Peterlee Campus new build, houses state-of-the-art equipment and provides a facility designed to nurture and inspire creativity in a range of ‘arts’ related disciplines. As well as being used as a teaching and learning area, The Lubetkin Theatre showcases a number of student productions and productions from external production companies. The Lubetkin Theatre was official opened in October 2009 by Sasha Lubetkin, daughter of Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 - 23 October 1990) the Russian born architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s and was commissioned to be master planner and chief architect for Peterlee new town only to find his vision mired in red tape and bureaucratic opposition.
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Relevant Experience Theatre Design + Acoustics THE SOUNDHOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Value: Client:
£1.7m The University of Sheffield
Jefferson Sheard Architects completed the delivery of this project working in collaboration with Kier Northern. The scheme involved the demolition of an existing University building, and construction of the new University of Sheffield Sound Studio (USSS) or ‘Soundhouse’ which forms part of the University’s Central Campus. Soundhouse is the centre for a diverse range of activity, including various flavours of electroacoustic composition, software and hardware development, audio-visual art and interactive instrumental work. USSS is committed to the performance of new music and theoretical research into the aesthetics and analysis of electroacoustic music. USSS comprises a 20 PC laboratory space, two single-user composition spaces and two recording studios (control room + live room). One control room has multichannel monitoring. The desire to create a contemporary building that satisfies acoustic requirements has led to: • high detailed design - Black “rubber” and stainless steel combine creating the external envelope. • acoustic performance - to satisfy the stringent acoustic requirements all connections of the building fabric had to be acoustically isolated. The internal partitions were planned out on acute angles to minimise reverberation times and the interiors include highly sculptural acoustic forms mounted on the walls to provide varying acoustic conditions. • detailing the concept of a quilted “music box” - huge 1/2 tonne sheets of vulcanised “rubber” were fixed over the structure with stainless steel studs to create a quilted effect that conveys the building’s well insulated qualities.
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Relevant Experience Theatre Design + Acoustics MUSIC BUILDING, HYMERS COLLEGE Value: Client:
£1.6m Hymers College
Hymers wanted to create an inspirational learning environment for its students which would be at once functional and stimulating. Furthermore, it was important for the space to be flexible in order to cope with technological advancements and the possible shift in learning styles. The purpose built £1.6m Music Building includes practice rooms, secure lockers in circulation areas and a recital hall to accommodate a full orchestra. A vaulted roof complements the surrounding Grade II Listed buildings, and open processional staircase with natural lighting penetrating into the heart of the building creates a dramatic ambience; this is an inspiring space designed to ignite creativity from the students. The sustainable design of the building includes energy efficient heating and lighting systems with ‘intelligent’ controls, overnight cooling and natural ventilation as well as photovoltaic solar panels, helping to offset CO2 emissions. As part of this scheme to improve facilities for the school Jefferson Sheard also extended the sports centre to include changing rooms for the students, ensuring that all sport facilities are located on one site.
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Relevant Experience Theatre Design + Acoustics ELECTRIC THEATRE, BARNSLEY COLLEGE Value: Client:
£1.36m Barnsley College
The Electric Theatre at Barnsley College was created from a former examination hall to cater for the great demand for student places following completion of Jefferson Sheard’s Old Mill Lane Campus for the College in 2012. The theatre which can seat almost 200 people also includes two dance studios, classroom spaces and state of art lighting and sound equipment and specialist infrastructure for teaching trapeze and silk. The facility also accommodates eight multi-point cameras for capturing events which makes it suitable for conferences too. The work completed to date is the first of two phases. The second phase will add a new Atrium and bar / catering facilities behind a suitably dramatic new façade, completing the eastern side of the new Urban Park that has been developed as part of the campus. The conversion of what was previously a steel framed building with lightweight cladding into a performance and rehearsal venue required us to address a wide range of acoustic and other technical factors as well as to build in a busy, active learning environment without causing disruption to the College’s curriculum. Los Angeles based writer-director Larry Heimgartner who teaches at LA Harbor College said: “I visited the first Electric Theatre and have seen the progress year on year in the lead up to today and I am very impressed. It is a really flexible learning space.”
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Jefferson Sheard Architects - Head Office Fulcrum 2 Sidney Street Sheffield S1 4RH Tel: 0114 276 1651
Jefferson Sheard Architects 10 Margaret Street London W1W 8RL Tel: 0870 240 4889
Jefferson Sheard Architects Unit 9, The Forum Minerva Business Park Lynchwood Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE2 6FT Tel: 01733 375 600
Jefferson Sheard Architects Jefferson Sheard Architects 53 King Street Manchester M2 4LQ Tel: 0161 359 3254 www.jeffersonsheard.com @jeffersonsheard