Oaklands Residential Scheme, AJ Buildings Library

Oaklands by John Pardey Architects St. Albans, Hertfordshire (2011)

Residential retrofit of the former Oaklands College in St Albans with the addition of 15 new apartment blocks within the listed campus

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Professional team

Begun Apr 2008

Architect John Pardey Architects

Completed Jul 2011 2

Client Nicholas King Homes

Floor area 17,297m

Structural engineer Barton Engineers

Sector Residential

M&E consultant Hoare Lea

Total cost ÂŁ22.9M

Approved building inspector Assent Building Control

Procurement Design & Build

Main contractor NK Homes

Address St. Peters Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1

Conservation consultant Mervyn Miller

3RX, United Kingdom

Facade consultant Cladtech Landscape consultant Mark Cooper Associates Arboricultural consultant CBA Trees Ecological consultant Nature Matters Sustainability consultant Faber Maunsell Accessibility consultant Penton, Smart + Grimwade CDM coordinator Bridge Security Quantity surveyor NK Homes

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Project manager NK Homes

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Photo credits: Andy Matthews

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Site plan

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Facade and floor detail

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Oaklands Residential Scheme, AJ Buildings Library

Published on Jun 13, 2012

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Oaklands College is a Grade II listed post-war former educational campus in the centre of St. Albans. After the college moved to new premises the site was bought by Fairview New Homes for redevelopment into housing. New apartment blocks were planned in a campus arrangement across the site that contained over two hundred mature trees, as if a parkland. A design language was derived from a central group of retained and listed buildings. Adopting the rectilinear building shape and by adding layers in an additive approach, we arrived with a building design that responded to its setting within the listed campus. The buildings use a restrained palette of natural materials – grey terracotta, zinc and cedar – to complement and echo the elegant and glassy listed building group.