MICA Living and Learning Brochure by MICA

Living and Learning

MICA is an award winning practice working in the UK and internationally across architecture, heritage and landscape projects. We work at all scales and levels, from urban design to individual buildings, interiors and furniture, designed for long term institutional sustainability.

We are pleased to enclose this brochure of our long, strong track record of work in schools, colleges and universities with a focus on recent student accommodation projects which create inspiring and uplifting environments for living and learning.

Our long history of designing sustainably was developed as Rick Mather Architects and is followed through in the ethos and award winning track record of MICA.

Clive Booth Student Village, Oxford Brookes

1035 Undergraduate rooms

13 buildings townhouse and flats

Kitchens, social and common spaces, nursery

H B Allen Centre, Keble College Oxford

250 graduate study rooms 30 kitchens, common rooms, cafe, research centre and external works, academic hotel, 12,250 sqm

Completed September 2019

Stowe School

212 communal bedrooms, flexible teaching facilities, 4 staff family living facilities, common rooms, art school, gardens and terraces

Completed 2008 to 2019

Arco Building, Sloane Robinson, Keble College

113 study bedrooms, 72 refurbishment rooms, 1 + 2 pairs, universal flexibility, shared kitchen/ dining rooms, seminar rooms, 250-seat flexible multi-purpose theatre, dining hall and recital room, 6 seminar rooms

Completed 1995 - 2002

4 MICA

Large scale student living

Cheng Yu Tung building, Jesus College Oxford

68 en-suite rooms (4 accessible)

4 studio flats (fellows) 6-10 students per kitchen, 3300m² retail, new teaching and learning facility, digital hub, new quad and adjacent landscape, café, exhibition space, gym 8500m² new build

Completed September 2022

University of East Anglia

Constable Terrace and Nelson Court, Townhouses and flats, 800 graduate rooms

Completed 1993

Hands Building, Mansfield College Oxford

73 en-suite rooms (3 accessible)

2 fellows accommodation Institute with library and office spaces and lecture theatre, landscape

Completed September 2017

Pembroke College Oxford

77 graduate study bedrooms, kitchens and common rooms, 8 studio flats

Completed August 2023

We are a team of 22 qualified architects within a wider group of around 30 people. We are industry leaders in designing exemplary low energy masterplans and developments in complex settings, including both the earliest and largest Passivhaus developments, carbon negative structures and recently the ‘greenest’ building of its kind in Oxford.

Affiliations

Practice Partners W Programme

Paradigm Network

Social Mobility Fund

Architects Declare signatory Advocates of London Energy transformation Initiative (LETI)

Advocates of RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge

NLA Partners

Accreditations

RIBA Chartered Practice

RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect

Certified Passivhaus Designer

LEED Building Design and Construction

Accredited Professional

UKAS ISO 9001, 14001, 45001

6 MICA

Cities Streets

Buildings Paths Spaces Parts

Architecture

Masterplanning

Urban Design

Conservation Architecture

Landscape Design

Interior Design

Model Making

Passivhaus Design

Planning Support

Strategic Advice + Consultancy

Graphic Design

BIM + BIM Management

Services offered:

MICA’s team brings extensive experience building new homes for students in sensitive environments. For MICA, each project is a blank page: we realize that our clients’ needs vary and therefore we are good listeners and work collaboratively to envision high quality residences to create the foundation environment for learning.

Designing the interior of the room to nurture learning, provide a place of respite and relaxation, an intimate space to socialise, communicate but also relax and reflect. Getting this space right unlocks the project, and becomes the building block for the whole building. Establishing this module with the insight of stakeholders gives the reassurance that the resulting building will serve the students needs.

A living dorm

MICA Bed 5 Storage Stowe School, Stowe Twin, 16sqm 6th form Typical room typology Four-bed En-suite Two-bed En-suite 16 m2 Single En-suite 10 m2 Double rooms Typical room typology Bed 1 Bed 2 Bed 3 Bed 4 Bed 5 seat Window Storage Storage Entrance Storage Storage Cobham 1 bed 10 sqm Four-bed En-suite Two-bed En-suite 16 m2 Single En-suite 10 m2 Sidney Lodge Cheltenham Ladies’ College Single. 11 sqm 6th form MICAs tested precedent layouts for various student room types West House Stowe School Single. 11 sqm 6th form Cobham House Stowe School Twin, 16 sqm 6th form Geoffrey Arthur Building Pembroke College, Oxford Double, 12sqm Graduate + undergraduate Northgate House Jesus College Oxford Double, 15sqm Graduate Geo ery Arthur Building 12 sqm Northgate house 15 sqm Typical room typology

Bed 1 Bed 2 Bed 3 Bed 4 Bed 5 Corner window seat Window 32.5 m2 11 m2 Washroom Storage Storage Entrance Storage Storage Four-bed En-suite

Double rooms Considerations for a typical Boarding House brief A toolkit for for preparing a project brief and schedule of accommodation December 2019

1:100

Student Homes

We produce buildings that are robust, guarantee thermal comfort year-round, have low operational energy, reduce water demand and are resilient to the future impacts of climate change. Whatever metrics are chosen, the building must work for its users, enhancing their experience and making the most of surrounds to improve wellbeing. We take great care in ensuring the best possible daylight factor, air quality, thermal and acoustic comfort, and in providing a diversity of spaces.

Performance is optimised through a fabric-first approach, ensuring that the need for costly mechanical systems and excessive supplies of energy is reduced. While we recognise that Passivhaus certification may not always be suitable, passive principles are inherent in our collaborative design process.

Windows arranged to provide optimum daylighting to the rooms

out

Passive design: orientation and massing working with the site

Cross section of corridor arrangement showing cross ventilation, even lighting, optimisation of views across the landscape and areas for work, socialising and living

Modelling used at early phases to test Passive principals of design

10 MICA

Views

Views out Daylight Task Lighting Corridor Study Bedroom Up-lighting to soffit to create even illumination to room. Integrated shutter Window seat Window seat Down Lighting in lowered soffit for entrance and changing Zone for mechanical ventilation for room / ensuite Feature pendant light in high ceiling corridor Cross ventilation Cross ventilation Deep mullions provide passive solar shading

SC Building Model - Test 02 Annual Heat Demand Treated Floor Area (TFA) Heat Loss Form Factor Thermal Envelope Area Number of Windows Case Study Demo (Kranichstein, Germany) Annual Heat Demand Treated Floor Area (TFA) Heat Loss Form Factor Thermal Envelope Area Number of Window 9.3kWh/m²a 1504sqm 1.22 1830 sqm 92 14.8kWh/m²a 155sqm 1.99 30deg

Comfortable living

MICA is adept at understanding the potential in existing buildings and adpating the to new uses, capitalising on the existing embodied carbon, and giving it a new lease of life, breathing new life into existing fabric.

We are equally comfortable working with historic and modern building fabric: we restored the modernist ABK accomodation at Keble College and are currently reworking an Edwardian block to provide high quality post graduate rooms in the centre of London for Goodenough College. Our approach to deep energy retrofit means the new buildings are efficient to operate long into the future.

12 MICA

North entrance restored to expose original finishes Lincoln’s Inn library reworked stair ABK Refurbishment for Keble College Oxford

Adaptive re-use

Hayward and de Breyne, Keble College Oxford 72 rooms, 4 phases student accommodation refurbishment

Goodenough College, Refurbishment of Post graduate and academic fellows in central Bloomsbury

We know that the comfort of the pillow matters as much (or more) to the user as the loveliness of the setting and the impact of the facade. MICA guides clients in selection of everything from hard and soft furnishings suitably robust for vigorously used social spaces, through to the fabrics and colours of blinds, curtains and pinboards in the more inmate spaces of study bedrooms.

We create inspiring, relaxing and uplifting communal spaces. Large common rooms can offer basic cooking facilities for student use, which can be secured away for other events. The spaces will be designed to be open and inviting, connecting seamlessly to outdoor space to expand the space and encourage time outdoors all year round. In addition to this we suggest smaller, more intimate and reflective common spaces which allow for smaller groups to gather and socialise or study together in close proximity to their rooms.

14 MICA

Student dining and common room space with views out Pembroke College social space for students Light-filled, generous interior circulation spaces Flexible study space with cafe facilities

Communal Spaces

East range cafeteria, kitchen and study space for students, with access to

H B Allen Centre cafe and common spaces new outdoor terrace at Mansfield College Oxford

Over the last twenty years our team has helped the University of Oxford to navigate the substantial pedagogical and typological transformations that have occurred in higher education, brought about by the increasing demand for 24 hour accessible, socially innovative, and digitally sophisticated spaces for research and learning. Our emphasis on critical thinking and creative problem- solving, along with extensive client engagement, has allowed the creation of dynamic and flexible buildings that blur the boundaries of learning and social spaces, all within the strict confines of a historic city and its heritage buildings.

ARCO, Keble College 1995 Keble College Parks Road Campus Northgate, Jesus College 2022

University of Oxford

“We are interested in buildings as pieces of the city, in the weave of urban fabric, in making places, in efficiency, in environmental design, in new and old, and in sensitive and respectful design.

Building in Oxford demands these considerations whilst also inviting rewarding client collaborations and unique opportunities for architects and for architecture.”

- Stuart Cade, Director at MICA

We have worked with Keble College, one of the largest residential colleges of Oxford University, continuously since 1995, completing two new student accommodation buildings, various renovation projects and a new bike shelter.

Project Stats

Masterplan (1994)

Porters Lodge: new accessible College entrance and lodge combined with new accommodation and sets (1992)

Arco: 93 study bedrooms, shared kitchen/dining rooms, seminar rooms (1995)

Hayward and de Breyne: 4 phases Student accommodation refurbishment, 72 rooms in total (1998 to 2002)

Sloane Robinson: 250-seat flexible multi-purpose theatre, dining hall and recital room, 6 seminar rooms and 20 study bedrooms (2002)

Library Refurbishment: feasibility study for new library entrance and step-free access combined with additional reader space (2018)

Liddon Quad: landscape amendment to central Keble quad to provide step-free access to all door thresholds including Hall, Chapel and Library (2019)

Bike Shelter (2016)

H B Allen Centre: 250 study bedrooms, 30 kitchens, common rooms, cafe, research centre and external works (2019)

“The client was rightly delighted with the solution which resulted in such high standard accommodation, built at half the cost of a traditional Oxbridge residential building. Nevertheless it is a fitting neighbour to those by Butterfield.”

- Judges comment, British Construction Industry Awards

18 MICA

Sloane Robinson 2002 Conference spaces with views out to Newman Quad

25-year relationship with Keble College

ARCO, Keble College 1995

The H B Allen Centre is a multi-faceted amenity for Keble College and the first complete new 21st century Oxford College complex. The design brings together an innovative mix of uses that support research graduates from study, to nurturing start-ups to employment. Maximising the precious site, the scheme provides 250 graduate student bedrooms, much needed in the centre of the university city.

250

20 MICA

student rooms

standalone research building

flexible research space

12,2502

2,000m2

Student Cafe + Common Rooms spill out to 21st Century Quad

A graduate community

The H B Allen Centre

Office and Research space with access to sunken gardens

Cheng Yu Tung building is a new mixed-use development for Jesus College, Oxford with ground floor retail as well as academic facilities and accommodation on the second floor upward. The lower floors of the complex add a new open-data and digital institute for Oxford University designed to promote interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange.

22 MICA

Study spaces with view into upper quad Delivering open and innovative education spaces - learning spaces range from lone study, to group work and teaching spaces and allow the students and researchers to engage across disciplines

City Living Jesus College Oxford

“With this new development, we are not just embracing the future of learning: we’re shaping it.”

- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Jesus College Principal

Jesus College hub building viewed from the Cornmarket thoroughfare

The development accommodates increased student numbers including mixed tenure residential spaces: graduate students and visiting fellows, resulting from its introduction of Computer Science and an expansion of postgraduate places; delivers improved space for students and staff; and provides more access to the work of the College. The building offers external landscaped spaces arranged across multiple levels for gathering and rest, as well as flexible adaptable social spaces.

Variety of room types, and clusters

24 MICA Key 1. Digital Hub meeting rooms 2. Cafe / study space 3. Cafe kitchen / servery 4. Student bedrooms 5. Student kitchens 6. Fourth Quad 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6

Accomodation Overview XXIV K K K K K K K K K 1 12:1 2 11:1 3 11:1 F / 4 7 6:1 9 5:1 8 5:1 4 6:1 5 6:1 6 6:1 XXIII ACCESS FROM COLLEGE XXV FOURTH QUAD MARKET STREET CORNMARKET STREET No. No. Clusters Rooms (2) 5 / (4) 6 postgraduate rooms 1 kitchen / lounge 6 34 (2) 11 / (1) 12 postgraduate rooms: 1 kitchen lounge 3 34 TOTAL 9 68 SUMMARY 00 RETAIL RICK MATHER ARCHITECTS JESUS COLLEGE NORTHGATE HOUSE WORKING GROUP BRIEFING MEETING 01 Accommodation 04 DIGITAL HUB 05 WIDER CONNECTIONS 03 EVENTS 02 ACADEMIC 01 ACCOMMODATION OTHER REQUIREMENTS Accessible rooms to not look ‘clinical’. Catering (kitchens) for 70 postgraduates to be provided within NGH development. Desire for smaller accessible or additional kitchens for students with specific dietary requirements. Cooking and living spaces to be separate. Seating available for every student using the space. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION Connecting doors between rooms (fellow’s or couples). OTHER REQUIREMENTS Permanent Fellows’ rooms to be larger than visiting Fellows’ room. No sharing of kitchens by Fellows and postgraduates. Shared Fellows’ kitchen unlikely unless more than 10 Fellow’s Precise mix, size, layout and components of permanent vs. visiting research Fellow rooms to be determined at later stage. single Fellows’ room could be combined for larger permanent Double bed, not single Double bed, king desirable Mini fridge Comfortable Flexible space Dimmable lighting Dimmable lighting Task lighting for Task lighting for En-suite bathroom En-suite bathroom Desk, min 60cm deep Flexible storage Double cupboard and multi-function shelving w/ suitcase storage Double cupboard, suitcase and in-room linen storage Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Pin boards, inside room & out Research teaching space (2-4 students) Power points w/ Power points w/ Cluster 1 kitchen / lounge per 8-10 bedrooms (with potential to create some 5-6 bedroom clusters by splitting kitchen lounge) 2-3 clusters form unit. Total of 70 postgraduate rooms. accessible rooms (1 in 20) unit shares circulation and living/lounge space. College shares quad, gym/studio and multi-faith space. Indicative location of accommodation and well-being spaces at upper floors of Northgate House (NGH) (from competition scheme). Approximately 27 sq.m Fellows’ rooms to be clustered together and possibly have distinct circulation from that of postgraduate use. Preference to locate Fellows’ rooms at highest floor levels and preferably away from busier Cornmarket Street. Fellow’s rooms to be separate from postgraduate rooms 1 cleaners cupboard and 1 linen store for each floor Laundry with 3-4 washers and dryers. Accessible and safe roof terrace for communal use (depending on layouts) Multifaith space to serve entire College. Studio (for sport activities) College provision of gym/studio; location within NGH or elsewhere on site. Match existing storage capacity for of existing NGH (space for international students during vacations, etc.). College may look to switch to third-party luggage store scheme. Postgraduate Rooms 70 rooms to contain the following components 10 (tbc) rooms to contain the following components CLUSTER FORMATIONS Fellows Building Ship St Centre GYM STUDIO TYPICAL EXISTING PROVISION K K K K K Third Quad L K room lounge spaces. repeating of the larger Arrangement Postgraduate rooms Fellows’ sets Ancillary This accommodation briefing summary forms part of the initial project brief (RIBA Stage 1) which provides the basis for the continued concept design as part of the RIBA Stage 2 workstage. K Approximately 19 sq.m K L 643-72010-01 DRAFT REV P1 REVISION INFORMATION 23 JUNE 2017 FOR AGREEMENT COMMENT WG 00 RETAIL RICK MATHER ARCHITECTS JESUS COLLEGE NORTHGATE HOUSE WORKING GROUP BRIEFING MEETING 01 Accommodation 04 DIGITAL HUB 05 WIDER CONNECTIONS 03 EVENTS 02 ACADEMIC 01 ACCOMMODATION OTHER REQUIREMENTS Catering (kitchens) for 70 postgraduates to be provided within NGH development. Desire for smaller accessible or additional kitchens for students with specific dietary requirements. Cooking and living spaces to be separate. Seating available for every student using the space. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION 0–2 rooms to have kitchenettes. Connecting doors between rooms (fellow’s or couples). OTHER REQUIREMENTS Permanent Fellows’ rooms to be larger than visiting Fellows’ room. No sharing of kitchens by Fellows and postgraduates. Shared Fellows’ kitchen unlikely unless more than 10 Fellow’s rooms. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION Precise mix, size, layout and components of permanent vs. visiting research Fellow rooms to be determined at later stage. single Fellows’ room could be combined for larger permanent Fellow. Double bed, not single Double bed, king desirable Mini fridge Comfortable armchair Flexible space Dimmable lighting Dimmable lighting Task lighting for Task lighting for En-suite bathroom En-suite bathroom Desk, min 60cm deep Flexible storage for books Double cupboard and multi-function shelving w/ suitcase storage Double cupboard, suitcase and in-room linen storage Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Pin boards, inside room & out Research teaching space (2-4 students) Power points w/ USB above desk Power points w/ USB above desk Cluster 1 kitchen / lounge per 8-10 bedrooms (with potential to create some 5-6 bedroom clusters by splitting kitchen lounge) Total of 70 postgraduate rooms. accessible rooms (1 in 20) unit shares circulation and living/lounge space. College shares quad, gym/studio and multi-faith space. Indicative location of accommodation and well-being spaces at upper floors of Northgate House (NGH) (from competition scheme). Approximately 27 sq.m Fellows’ rooms to be clustered together and possibly have distinct circulation from that of postgraduate use. Preference to locate Fellows’ rooms at highest floor levels and preferably away from busier Cornmarket Street. Fellow’s rooms to be separate from postgraduate rooms 1 cleaners cupboard and 1 linen store for each floor Laundry with 3-4 washers and dryers. Accessible and safe roof terrace for communal use (depending on layouts) Multifaith space to serve entire College. Studio (for sport activities) College provision of gym/studio; location within NGH or elsewhere on site. Match existing storage capacity for of existing NGH (space for international students during vacations, etc.). College may look to switch to third-party luggage store scheme. Postgraduate Rooms 70 rooms to contain the following components 10 (tbc) rooms to contain the following components CLUSTER FORMATIONS Ship St Centre 3-5 Ship Street QUAD STUDIO TYPICAL EXISTING PROVISION K K K K L Third Quad L K rooms to one shared kitchen) and shared living room lounge spaces. repeating of the larger Arrangement Postgraduate rooms Fellows’ sets Ancillary This accommodation briefing summary forms part of the initial project brief (RIBA Stage 1) which provides the basis for the continued concept design as part of the RIBA Stage 2 workstage. K Approximately 19 sq.m K L 643-72010-01 DRAFT REVISION INFORMATION 00 RETAIL JESUS COLLEGE NORTHGATE HOUSE WORKING GROUP BRIEFING MEETING 01 Accommodation 04 DIGITAL HUB 05 WIDER CONNECTIONS 03 EVENTS 02 ACADEMIC 01 ACCOMMODATION Accessible rooms to not look ‘clinical’. Catering (kitchens) for 70 postgraduates to be provided within development. Desire for smaller accessible or additional kitchens for students with specific dietary requirements. Cooking and living spaces to be separate. Seating available for every student using the space. FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION 0–2 rooms to have kitchenettes. Connecting doors between rooms (fellow’s or couples). OTHER REQUIREMENTS Permanent Fellows’ rooms to be larger than visiting Fellows’ room. No sharing of kitchens by Fellows and postgraduates. Shared Fellows’ kitchen unlikely unless more than 10 Fellow’s Precise mix, size, layout and components of permanent vs. visiting research Fellow rooms to be determined at later stage. single Fellows’ room could be combined for larger permanent Fellow. Double bed, not single Double bed, king desirable Mini fridge Kitchenette armchair Flexible space Dimmable lighting Dimmable lighting Task lighting for bed and desk Task lighting for bed and desk En-suite bathroom En-suite bathroom Desk, min 60cm deep Flexible storage for books Double cupboard and multi-function shelving w/ suitcase storage Double cupboard, suitcase and in-room linen storage Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Shower tray, fixed panel; not pod Pin boards, inside room & out Research teaching space (2-4 students) Power points w/ USB above desk Power points w/ USB above desk Cluster 1 kitchen / lounge per 8-10 bedrooms (with potential to create some 5-6 bedroom clusters by splitting kitchen lounge) 2-3 clusters form unit. Total of 70 postgraduate rooms. accessible rooms (1 in 20) unit shares circulation and living/lounge space. College shares quad, gym/studio and multi-faith space. Indicative location of accommodation and well-being spaces at upper floors of Northgate House (NGH) (from competition scheme). Approximately 27 sq.m Fellows’ rooms to be clustered together and possibly have distinct circulation from that of postgraduate use. Preference to locate Fellows’ rooms at highest floor levels and preferably away from busier Cornmarket Street. Fellow’s rooms to be separate from postgraduate rooms 1 cleaners cupboard and 1 linen store for each floor Laundry with 3-4 washers and dryers. Accessible and safe roof terrace for communal use (depending on layouts) Multifaith space to serve entire College. Studio (for sport activities) FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION College provision of gym/studio; location within NGH or elsewhere on site. Match existing storage capacity for of existing NGH (space for international students during vacations, etc.). College may look to switch to third-party luggage store scheme. Postgraduate Rooms 70 rooms to contain the following components 10 (tbc) rooms to contain the following components CLUSTER FORMATIONS Fellows Building Ship St Centre 3-5 Ship Street MULTI-FAITH TYPICAL EXISTING PROVISION K K K K K Third Quad L K Different typologies exist across College regarding Abstract formation proposed clusters (10 formations around quad with ancillary gym, Arrangement Postgraduate rooms Fellows’ sets Ancillary This accommodation briefing summary forms part of the initial project brief (RIBA Stage 1) which provides the basis for the continued concept design as part of the RIBA Stage 2 workstage. K POSTGRADUATE ROOM KITCHEN LOUNGE CIRCULATION Approximately 19 sq.m K L 643-72010-01 DRAFT REV P1 23 JUNE 2017 FOR AGREEMENT COMMENT WG Total of 68 postgraduate rooms. accessible rooms (>1 in 20) TBC Axonometric diagram showing all accommodation clusters across 3 floors. Different colours denote various clusters. Proposed accommodation arrangements from brief Kitchen, dining and common spaces are light-filled and generous. Furniture pieces were chosen to ensure design quality, longevity, and sustainability.

New en-suite study bedrooms, with fantastic views, received positive buzz from students

Quad as a communal space, Cheng Yu Tung Building

Clive Booth Student Village for Oxford Brookes University delivers a healthy, connected community, a ‘village’ that engages with the natural surroundings providing a healthy and vibrant setting for over 1000 students to live and study. The arrangement of the buildings, how they interact with the landscape, how the students and staff can move around them and how the spaces created foster the best possible environments for study and living are prioritised in how this village community has been developed.

Aerial view of Clive Booth Student Village in construction Visual of new accommodation embedded in setting

Engaging with nature Clive Booth Student Village

Project Stats

1,035 graduate rooms

13 buildings townhouse and flats kitchens, common rooms

Aerial sketch of Clive Booth Student Village

Situated on the outskirts of the historic Oxford city centre, and directly on the River Thames, is the Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building 2. In this setting, MICA has delivered additional high-quality graduate student accommodation including 77 single occupancy bedrooms, a common room and 8 studio rooms on the one site, bound together by sympathetic landscaping.

28 MICA

Aerial of new GAB 2 Pembroke College accommodation in the riverside setting Built in storage and window seats with a view in student room Student accommodation looking onto landscape quad

A floodable building Pembroke

College, Oxford

Project Stats

77 graduate study bedrooms, kitchens and common rooms, 8 studios

To support and inform Wellington College’s decision making process, a 25 year estate development strategy was prepared by MICA to identify and explore potential development site. A range of new flexible buildings and spaces have been identified in relation to sports, performing arts, accommodation, teaching, alongside new typologies in support of social interaction and informal learning. Strategic investment in the College site wide infrastructure include new low carbon solutions, improved visitor access, and the creation of a series of new character areas to improve daily life at the College.

30 MICA

2 3 4 5 6 8 7 CLUSTER CLUSTER STAFF CLUSTER CLUSTER CLUSTER CLUSTER CLUSTER CLUSTER MIXED USE BOARDING/ CLUSTER SOCIAL Existing zones and Uses Uses Key Common Accommodation Sports Staff Accommodation Support Academic Performing Arts Mixed Use 1.Old Laundry Site 2.Wellesley Quad and Queen’s Court 3.Music School 4.Laundry and IT 5.Science 6.Salassie Courts 7. Raglan House 8.Grounds Sheds, Turf, College, Shop, Dance

Woodland Quad new boarding and accessible landscape (Currently on-site) Sixth Form Hub (currently on-site) Wellbeing Centre (currently in design development)

Landscape Estates

Wellington College

7 8 10 15 16 13 12 14 9 25 19 18 17 6 20 21 2 3 4 1 5 23 22 24

Hidden from the historic south front the Old Laundry site offers a unique experience for the College in bringing forward new boarding and day facilities. Sensitively integrated into the woodland setting that enhance connections across the College.

The boarding house is for both boys and girls with 70 beds with shared facilities, entrance staff, common space in the centre and flanked by a wing of boys and a wing of girls. The buildings are arranged around the perimeter of the site - creating a central woodland quad which brings the landscape into the lived setting and offers biodiversity enhancements

32 MICA First Second Upper Common Rooms AHM HM Main Stair Terrace Terrace

Ground

Study bedroom Social study space with views to landscape

A new woodland quad

Wellington College

The school commissioned a strategic masterplan in 2000 to develop a flexible 25 year development. The masterplan has informed the quality of development of Stowe School over the last 22 years and continues to be responsive to ever changing needs ensuring Stowe remains one of the world’s leading educational and pastoral environments. Projects designed and constructed by MICA include:

Wynne Gallery 2024

Cobham 2019

West House 2018

The Art School Renovation 2010

Queens & Stanhope 2007 and 2008

34 MICA Working Model of masterplan

Chapel Court 2016 - 60 Boarders Stowe West Five Boarding House

Regenerating Estates

“Stowe now offers the best teaching facility of its kind anywhere in the UK.”

- Brian Johnson, the Head of Stowe Art School

West House Boarding Houses sits alongside a set of three Neo-Georgian masters’ residences and provides 24 study bedrooms with staff living facilities, common rooms, gardens and terraces, reconciling shared functions of the existing boarding houses and expressing views through to the woodland setting and landscape beyond. As a consequence of our longstanding partnership with the school, we offered an opportunity to depart from the tried and tested formal, and operational typologies associated with independent boarding and pastoral care.

Study bedrooms clustered in multiples of threes and sixes, give flexibility to occupancy and management arrangements. Bedrooms open onto common areas, rather than corridors, and use colour to provide legibility and accessibility.

36 MICA

New boarding typology with bedrooms overlooking a shared space – which has encouraged the girls to work in the open space more.

A new boarding typology

West House

Peking University HSBC Business School is the highest ranking university in China, based in Beijing and Shenzhen. PHBS UK’s vision is to create a world-class environment for education that will attract the highest calibre students and promote business learning and exchange between the UK and China. The new Foxcombe Hall campus benefits from a quiet, rural setting that specifically suits postgraduate study. The new buildings will be delivered to achieve Passivhaus Classic accreditation.

The scheme delivers a holistic low-energy strategy for the entire site with exemplary low-energy new buildings providing a low demand and renewable energy sources for both themselves and the existing listed buildings. The new buildings will be delivered to achieve Passivhaus Classic accreditation.

KEY

Super insulation

Carbon sequestering CLT construction

Re-use & improved performance of existing building

Green roof & photovoltaic potential

On-site surface water drainage concept

Attentuation

38 MICA

SUNPATH

4,841 tons C02 operational emissions / 30 years 1,698 tons C02 emissions construction & embodied 1,787 tons C02 operational emissions / 30 years 1,350 tons C02 saving EXIST NG CAMPUS DESOPORP SUPMAC

Prime Passivhaus accommodation

HSBC Business School, Peking University

MICA’s work at Mansfield College, Oxford, began in 2006 with a campus-wide masterplan, consolidating their existing accommodation blocks, listed buildings, external spaces and aiming to maximise opportunities within the existing boundaries to provide new social and living spaces for their students on campus.

The first phase of the works was the refurbishment of the Grade II* listed East Range to form a café, study and common spaces. The project removed an existing cramped Victorian kitchen from the historic building and placed it in a new purpose-built connection creating a more efficient and accessible space for the café and servery while improving welfare facilities and disabled access. This has provided a wonderful resource for the students of the College who are now able to use the newly created spaces for informal study as well as socially. The spaces transformed the entire campus as for the first all undergraduates could remain on site to study and socialise. The café extends outside on to a south facing, sunken terrace which has become a vibrant social gathering space within a newly landscaped garden.

Alongside the café, a feature stair and lift were inserted, rationalising a series of existing changes of level, and providing a new connection through to the Chapel which was carefully refurbished to create a large dining facility and social events space within the historic fabric.

40 MICA

Embedded in setting

Mansfield College Oxford

Landscaping works to Quad East Range Hands Building New Student Accommodation Landscaping works New access route Masters House Chapel Restoration Hall & SCR Common Room South facing, sunken terrace

The Hands Building is the second project for the College. MICA deliveerd a mixed-use project combining student housing and the Institute of Human Rights, sits on the western edge of the historic Mansfield College campus. Bringing a fresh, innovative design to the Grade 2* listed site, the new building is a bold contemporary addition with a sensitive connection to the adjacent heritage buildings.

The Hands Building was constructed with an innovative carbon negative CLT frame. This offers the benefit of carbon sequestration within the timber, classing the building as the greenest of its kind in Oxford.

Hands Building Awards Structural Timber Awards 2018, Shortlisted Oxford Preservation Trust 2018, New Building Certificate

42 MICA

The Hands Building provides en-suite accommodation for 73 students Illustration of how the level change is used to maximise potential of the new building and how landscape integrates the building into it’s setting

Low-Carbon Living Hands Building, Mansfield College

The Hands Building, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

We have been engaged by Cheltenham Ladies’ College to create a 25-year masterplan, and to complete the outline design of two new boarding houses, focusing on creating stronger links through the town to better integrate the existing scattered boarding houses. The proposals will house approximately 190 students.

Sidney lodge project includes the transformation of Grade II

Listed to a new 60 bed Sixth Form House, alongside the deep retrofit of two existing boarding houses, Beale and Cambray to create a unified cluster around a series of elevated gardens and routes through the site.

Consolidation of a common route across the campus

44 MICA Sidney Lodge Farnley Lodge St Margarets Roderic Glenlee Sports Fields Sports Fields St Hilda Beale & Cambray Eversleigh Gransden St Austin St Helen Bayshill Bunwell Bayshill Tennis Court Main College Elizabeth House 65m 120m 100m

Legacy and Future Flexibility

Cheltenham Ladies’ College

An appraisal of the built fabric, accessibility and educational facilities of the main Grade I, II* Listed campus, to improve facilities and locate sites for development and refurbishment.

“We have been impressed by MICA’s understanding of our requirements, the attention to details and their ability to communicate with our stakeholders with high quality presentations.”

- Edwin Wai, Estates Project Manager

MICA Architects have been appointed to review the College’s Domus site for the decades ahead and create a masterplan that will guide all future built development. This will ensure that carefully planned interventions and development align to a cohesive vision that provides a pathway towards net zero CO2 emissions, provides universal access, and enhances spatial efficiencies across the College. MICA have led a number of consultation events to engage the college communities and are developing proposals for a number of opportunities across the campus.

Re-imagined outdoor space and connections to Buttery, Upper Hall

46 MICA

Student hub in refurbished Blythe building which currently has multiple emplty under utilised spaces Open spaces for study alongside intimate and relaxed zones Engaging consultation events, meetings and consultation methods.

Climate, Access, Optimising spaces

Christ’s College Cambridge Masterplan

We work at the cutting edge of learning and our design team promotes robust multi-purpose spaces where ‘form follows pedagogy’, creating environments where research and teaching drive real change. MICA’s experienced team will manage the processes required to successfully fulfil the client requirements. We will use proven and well-practiced procedures, instinct based on extensive project experience, all married with clear communication skills and openness. We will establish a clear consultation programme and matrix from the outset to ensure that the many and varied discussions are held with the right people and in the right order to inform the design.

48 MICA

Post Occupancy Evaluation Workshop - Student Feedback informs future designs Stakeholder engagement event

Engaging Process

Careful choice of materials . We have extensive experience of designing contemporary buildings in the most sensitive and special settings. We take cues from the context, and marry these carefully with innovative contemporary interpretations to establish a special sense of identity. Using enduring materials which age well and naturally with the minimum of maintenance will be key to the long term success of the new building. Alongside contextual sensitivity, materials will be carefully chosen to reduce embodied carbon and achieve sustainability targets.

and robust material palette appropriate for the setting

Operational carbon

Adaptability to Passivhaus performance

Ease of maintenance and durability

Operational carbon

Adaptability to Passivhaus performance

Ease of maintenance and durability

50 MICA

Cross Laminated Timber Clipsham Stone Refined Low-embodied Carbon Reduction Engineered timber frame (CLT slabs / walls and Glulam columns / beams Timber frame with load-bearing stone walls Embodied carbon Embodied carbon

Services. As a practice we have developed forward looking models across multiple sectors: cultural, transport, civic, and in education. MICA continuously evaluates and researches best practice and future trends across all areas of work, education and learning practices. Industries served include: Masterplanning, Creative Industries, Modern Methods of Construction, Green and circular economies, Low carbon – environmental, Healthy Streets, and Regeneration and Planning. Services provided include:

– Architecture + Planning

– Masterplanning + Urban Design

– Conservation Architecture + Heritage

– Placemaking + Landscape Design

– Net Zero Strategy + Sustainability

– Interior Design + Space Planning + FFE

– Graphics + Branding

– Signage and Wayfinding

– Passivhaus Design + Environmental Design

– Principal Designer + Health & Safety + CDM

– Technical Director + QA

– Engagement + Consultation

– Project Management + Contract Administration

– BIM Co-ordination + Management

– Architecture + Design Research

– PR + Marketing

– Visualisations + 3D modelling + Virtual Reality

– Physical Model Making

MICA Architects Ltd 123 Camden High St London NW1 7JR

micaarchitects.com

+44 (0)207 284 1727