WORK IN PROGRESS Corinium Museum Resource Recovery Park Equestrian House Park Cottage Exactaform SECO Tools Withycombe House Chew Magna Horseshoe Walk Rodwell Rd Weymouth Stony Street 51 Sydney Buildings The Avenue Biddestone Walcot Street
Corinium museum Designscape Architects have been appointed by the Corinium Museum in Cirencester for the refurbishment of the museum, as well as the design of a new Community Discovery Centre. The design proposes alterations to the internal layout in order to improve the flow throughout the building and the new gallery areas were designed to reduce clutter and really focus the quality of the exhibits, using dark rooms with illuminated exhibition stands. A new reception desk was designed to unite the entrance and shop with a single counter. The works include the creation of a Discovery Centre, to be used to accommodate a variety of functions (learning, meetings and museum collections work) for a range of visitors. The Garden will also be altered to provide for a better quality outdoor space along with a coffee shop.
DETAILS Type: Public Client: Cotswold District Council Status: Design competition. Awarded HLF Stage 2 Funding Interior Exhibition Designer: Underwood & Co.
Concept sketches for Hare Gallery (top) and Discovery Centre (bottom)
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alization of the display for the eolithic to Mesolithic section.
Existing Hare Gallery
The Museum building
Exhibition designer’s drawings
Resource Recovery Park Crapper and Sons Landfill LTD (CSLL), operate a landfill, recycling, composting and waste wood processing business at the Park Grounds site just outside Royal Wootton Bassett, alongside the M4 motorway. The new facilities will turn about 94% of material currently buried in landfill into a source of green energy. The scheme will include the construction of two Biomass Boiler Buildings, along with an Energy Plant Compound, Waste Drying Shed and new office building. The power produced from waste will be exported to the National Grid, and the heat will be utilized in local developments in Royal Wootton Bassett as well as for thermal waste treatment on the site in support of CSLL. The proposals include a very large translucent green enclosure for the waste handling operation, creating an abstract “artificial hill� which will gently glow at night. It is intended to be a positive statement about the production of green energy from waste, and a potential prototype for other sites in future.
DETAILS Type: Industrial / office / workplace Client: Crapper and Sons Limited Status: Planning Application
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Site plan as proposed
Night time visual - early design proposal
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Early design sketch
Equestrian house The Equestrian house is a proposal for a new dwelling with associated equestrian facilities in the Green Belt on a 20 acre site, just outside Windsor. It was submitted for planning under the NPPF paragraph 55 criteria. The brief includes a family house along with equestrian facilities suitable for either professional use or for a family with horses. This house proposes a unique relationship between land and building, humans and livestock. A Landscape Management plan, along with various sustainable technologies were also introduced in order to enhance the existing landscape and context and contribute towards the Bracknell Forest Biodiversity Action Plan. Sustainable technologies such as the installation of PV’s, ground source heat pump and rain water collection make this a carbon positive design and are key elements in the design of this house. The design has been fully endorsed by the South East Design Panel as meeting all of the very onerous criteria set out in NPPF Para 55 - Truly outstanding or innovative, and reflecting the highest standards of architectural design.
DETAILS Type: Equestrian House / NPPF 55 Client: Private Status: Planning Application
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Inner courtyard visual
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park cottage A new house for a private client, replacing an existing house in a sensitive conservation area context. The design tries to respond positively to this context using forms and materials which reference the local vernacular, but without compromising its integrity as a contemporary piece of architecture. The design proposes using renewable energy sources and fabric first design principles. The proposal creates a cluster of volumes, concentrated towards the road edge facing the village with the local stone and stone tiled roofs as the dominant materials. The building is conceived as having a “hard edge” facing the public realm, and a “soft edge” facing towards the private realm of the garden and open countryside. A flat roof cloister connects the garage to the main house, which will also be used as an archery range.
DETAILS Type: Residential - new Client: Private Status: Planning Application
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EXACTAFORM A purpose built facility for a precision tool manufacturer. Having an owner/occupier client allows us to talk specifics – for example daylighting, servicing strategies or managing heat generated by machinery – enabling us to create a better building than if it were a speculative development. The idea of the design is straightforward: by introducing care and elegance into what would otherwise be a single form commercial building on an industrial estate allows the occupier to project an image consistent with their product. The shaping of the front of the box is a carefully designed overhang, shading the glass façade and sheltering a recreational outdoor terrace for staff. Our design builds on our experience of designing manufacturing, distribution, research, training, sales and marketing spaces, and those layers of experience also reflect the client’s culture.
DETAILS Type: Commercial Building Client: Exactaform Cutting Tools Ltd Status: Under construction Interior Designer: Wylde IA
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seco tools Seco Tools are a tool manufacturer based in Sweden with more than 40 subsidiaries around the world and is one of the largest providers of comprehensive metal cutting solutions. Working for the global real estate department and a multidisciplinary UK based team, Designscape have provided architectural advice, master planning and concept, through to construction design information for several European sites including: Bourges France, Budapest Hungary and the HQ facility in Fagersta Sweden. Seco see the benefits of creating a positive flexible working environment for their staff and customers and have sought to reflect the company’s core values of open and friendly working, client commitment, dedication and expertise in their building facilities.
DETAILS Type: Workplace Client: SECO Tools Ltd Status: Under construction Interior Designer: Wylde IA
Main entrance facade
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withycombe house After 10 years of being uninhabited, the proposal is a radical overhaul of the existing building keeping the same footprint and re-using the existing foundations and principal structural elements where possible. The site slopes steeply, with some significant level changes creating a strong link between the house and the site. The house is organised with the principal rooms facing south and a substantially glazed facade in order to enjoy the views across the valley. Balconies create additional external living space whilst shading the house to reduce overheating.
DETAILS Type: Residential / Refurbishment Client: Private Status: Under construction
House as existing (top) and Under construction (bottom)
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chew magna A new private house in the village of Chew Magna. The site, which is effectively a little island surrounded by two streams of water, makes it a unique setting. The only access to the site is over a concrete and brick bridge. The design is set out on a radial grid centred on an important oak tree on the site boundary. The palette of materials is limited to just two: zinc panels and red sandstone walls, characteristic of Chew Magna. The massing of the house has been carefully considered in order to reduce its visual impact in a Greenbelt setting with the accommodation broken down into two small clusters linked together with a glazed bridge. The majority of the house is single storey, except the master bedroom and guest room, which sit above the masonry walls. The whole building is raised off the ground in order to overcome the risk of flooding. The river bank will be terraced in order to connect the garden with the water’s edge, embracing the setting and increasing the flood water capacity on site.
DETAILS Type: New residential building Client: Private Status: Concept Design
Proposed site plan
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horseshoe walk An extension to a modest 1948 semi-detached house sitting alongside to the Kennet and Avon canal at Pultney Gardens, in the centre of Bath. The extension includes a study for the owner with views over the canal focusing on Bath Abbey. The design approach distinguishes the new from the existing - in terms of massing and materials - whilst responding to the canal side setting. For the ground floor, rubble stone walling was proposed, and timber battens on grey fibre-cement panels on the first floor. Currently under construction, this extension acts as a counterpoint to the existing house, not dominating or copying it. The result is a modest but sharp and elegant design that responds positively to its context.
DETAILS Type: Refurbishment Client: Private Status: Under construction
View from the canal
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stony street A mixed used redevelopment of a site in Frome, which included a series of residential apartments and a new restaurant unit on the ground and first floor. The restaurant has been a huge success and has made a significant contribution to the continuing revitalisation and quality of the town centre. The six apartments above the restaurant also provide cosmopolitan and contemporary town centre living space. Designscape’s role ranged from redesigning the elevations of the building to give them a more honest aesthetic and to improve the functionality of the necessary privacy screening, whilst working with the local authority to meet and discharge the various planning conditions for the site. Designscape worked with the local Building Control department to redesign the apartment layouts, removing a series of internal lobbies and partitions, making the apartments much more open and spacious. Through use of our VR modelling equipment we were able to provide our clients an immersive and rapid design process when making key decisions – so that they could get a really good sense of the benefits of the layout changes.
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DETAILS Type: Refurbishment Client: Sam’s Kitchen / Charter Land Status: Finished Nov 2016 Photography: Toby Mitchell
rodwell rOAd weymouth Designscape have designed a new building of 6 apartments to replace an existing house on a busy and challenging street corner in Weymouth. The project draws inspiration from the surrounding context to fit comfortably into the fabric of the area. It acknowledges the predominant presence of brick, and contrasts that with zinc panels on the walls and roof to effectively break down the massing of the building whilst still offering a cost effective and durable building shell in a fairly harsh environment. Timber and planting is used on the south facing terraces to soften the private areas. The building is positioned hard up towards the street to create space for terraces on the private side, as well as separation from the neighbour, and to reinforce the street presence. Each apartment is designed to have a clear layout with an open plan kitchen/dining space positioned in order to maximise the opportunities of the site - south and east facing views towards the sea.
DETAILS Type: New residential building Client: Private Developer Status: Planning
CGI View from Rodwell Road
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51 sydney buildings Following the renovations and refurbishment proposed and built by Designscape Architects in 2010, the same clients appointed us to design a two storey side extension. This new extension accommodates a garage on the ground floor and a bedroom on the first. The new building is asymmetric in its composition -to reflect the wedge shaped site, and is built on top of a pre existing vault below. Although the extension is made of the predominant material of the street and the City - Bath oolithic limestone ashlar it is detailed in a way that ensures that it is clearly legible as a contemporary - 21st Century - addition.
DETAILS Type: Refurbishment Client: Private Status: Under construction
The avenue A modest, single storey new dwelling at the back garden of a large Victorian house on the edge of Bath. The design consists of two volumes connected by flat roof link. The northern volume accommodates the more private areas of the house - bedroom and family room - whilst the southern volume holds the more public ones - kitchen, living and dining. This house will be made with concrete bricks, which are used to set out the dimensions for the walls and openings in a rigorous but cost effective composition. A green roof, visible from the neighbouring houses will cover the two volumes.
DETAILS Type: New dwelling Client: Private Status: Technical design
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THE SCHOOL Biddestone The original Victorian primary school building was converted to residential use and extended in 2000. However the original conversion was rather compromised and badly planned. The proposal creates an honest expression of contemporary architecture clearly expressing the new extensions as distinct from the original building, while still remaining sympathetic to the existing building and its surroundings. The proposal involves the construction of two large new dormers to the west and south elevations, as well as two small extensions. The new built elements will be partly covered in lead coated stainless steel panels, remaining sympathetic to the existing materials.
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DETAILS Type: Refurbishment Client: Private Status: Under construction
walcot street Located in a central location in Bath, this project involves the sensitive refurbishment the internal layout of this Listed Building - reversing some unsympathetic changes made in 1988. The layout provides for a shop on ground floor street frontage, and flats on the basement and higher levels. The scheme will also include two new houses to the back of the building. The new design is a response to the design constraints - height restriction, overlooking or overshadowing neighbours, conservation areaas well as the semi industrial character of the context. The design incorporates the extensive vaults on the lower ground floor. The new design ensures that all habitable areas would get a good amount of daylight, even the ones located at this level. The scheme uses ashlar stone, zinc and timber cladding - in a composition which acknowledges the changing context from front to back - transitioning from the formal street frontage to the former industrial back-land which is still partly evident behind the street buildings.
Front elevation - shop front
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DETAILS Type: Residential refurbishment / Listed Building Client: Private Status: Planning
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