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INTRODUCTION Part of the Ingenium international group of companies, NORR is a leading, UK-based, architectural practice, delivering intelligent solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors. We offer the highest level of service in both design and technical delivery. Our approach to projects is always client-focused: we deliver bespoke solutions innovating to suit the precise needs of the client. Our concept design and detailed construction technology is delivered with a high level of management experience, always with a Director allocated to every client throughout the commission. Our track record of award winning projects reflects the quality of our work and our attention to detail. Serving the needs of a diverse international client base, we create the spaces and places that people value for…
Creative Integrity Economic Performance Environmental Responsibility Personal Experience Social Contribution
This is our philosophy for achieving bespoke strategic solutions for clients in every commission…
…this is what we call ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
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OUR ETHOS NORR’s focus on client requirements encompasses the consideration of a set of 5 parameters which, together combine to create a unique strategic blueprint for every project.
We call this ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
CREATIVE INTEGRITY At the heart of all successful architecture. Our approach ensures that each project delivers at aesthetic, practical and technical levels.
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Fundamental to every project’s success. We create high quality environments that are commercially robust ‘Added value’ by ‘Intelligent Architecture’ is central to NORR.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY All buildings have a short and longer term impact on the environment. NORR pioneer low-cost, commercially viable, sustainable designs.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE A project ultimately succeeds or fails at an individual level: buildings must work on a human scale and create a positive experience for every user.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION NORR believes buildings can, and should, have a positive impact on the quality of life of those who use them, directly or indirectly.
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CLIENT Morgan Sindall SCALE 1,200 m² VALUE £8 million COMPLETION 2011 BREEAM Outstanding
CARNEGIE PRIMARY SCHOOL DUNFERMLINE, FIFE, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION The site for the new Carnegie Primary School occupies an elevated, sloping and south-facing position on the east side of Dunfermline. The site’s challenging topography was however, conducive to the creation of a truly stimulating and interesting educational environment. The building is composed of five subtly separate, yet intrinsically related parts: — The eastern teaching zone containing the nursery facilities, adjacent to the main entrance — The infants, or lower school, teaching wing — The middle school teaching wing — The upper school teaching wing, which also contains some of the school’s special needs facilities — A central, shared ‘hub’ zone incorporating all of the main communal areas, including the PE, assembly hall and administration facilities, together with the library and some further special needs facilities.
The last of these constituent parts, the bright, airy and geometrically interesting central hub, not only provides a multi-purpose, flexible area for all, but also a symbolic and functional heart to the project as a whole.
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CLIENT Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council SCALE 2,300 m² VALUE £4.8 million COMPLETION 2010 BREEAM Very Good
HILLSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL HUDDERSFIELD, UK PRIMARY EDUCATION This new build, double award winning £4.8m infant/junior school and children’s’ centre at Stile Common in Huddersfield, was completed in January 2010 and identified by Kirklees Council as a flagship educational development. The single storey building, constructed on land adjacent to the existing junior school covers 2,300 m² and incorporates a number of renewable energy and sustainable design initiatives, including biomass heating, rainwater harvesting and roof mounted solar thermal panels and wind turbines. The performance of these is fully visible and accessible to staff and pupils as education into the environmental benefits. Site management was praised by staff for its consideration and producing a new building without interrupting the learning process.
CLIENT RG Carter SCALE 1,600 m²
LAUDER PRIMARY SCHOOL EDINBURGH, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
VALUE ÂŁ2.4 million
The 250 pupil Lauder Primary School sits on the edge of the village of lauder and has been designed to link the building to the surrounding countryside with a domestic scale utilising full height glazing within simple forms.
COMPLETION 2007
The School has been designed as a cluster of buildings with classrooms accessed through a glazed corridor, with each individual classroom cluster having its own particular identity. The building is an introverted, but friendly kind of school with a clear legibility in plan so that pupils progress through the project from one end to the other. Central to the design is the playground and how it sits within its wooded field. A colonnaded quadrangle defines the drop-off point creating a civic scale to the public entrance whilst the combined mass of the admin block and nursery, helps disguise the bulk of the gym and dining hall, from which the classrooms curve away in a cluster of simple yet elegant blocks.
CLIENT Scottish Borders Council VALUE £8.5 million COMPLETION 2010 AWARDS 2011 Best Educational Building Design (Scotland)
KINGSLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL PEEBLES, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION The school accommodates more than 400 staff and pupils containing 14 classrooms and a nursery. With a timeless Scandinavian look and feel, Kingsland’s classrooms are all light and airy. Despite the fact that the structure is two storeys in places, 11 of its 15 classrooms have doors opening directly to the outside, emphasising the connection of the school to its semi-rural setting. The front elevation of the building facing the road, is clad in dry stone walling, while the use of timber and white render lends a tactile, friendly quality to the building. As the site has a steep north to south fall running across it, the design strategy was to hide the bulk of the school’s two-storey games hall by embedding it into the hill. The new school is well located on its prominent site, acting as a gateway into Peebles near Neidpath Castle on the edge of the town. Making the most of its location, the building has been designed to have a strong connection to the outdoors, with views out over Peebles to the South and East. This sensitive approach led to several awards including
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CLIENT Staffordshire County Council SCALE 2,600 m²
LITTLETON GREEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL STAFFORDSHIRE, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
VALUE £8.2 million
The Council sought to build a signature building to provide an innovative primary school for the 21st century that would become the Staffordshire Primary Exemplar.
COMPLETION 2009
Huntington Community Primary School was a unique opportunity for Staffordshire County Council to relocate an existing primary school split over two sites, to a single site that has become available following the sale of Littleton Colliery for development.
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CLIENT National Day Nurseries Association SCALE 3,021 m² VALUE £12 million COMPLETION 2010 AWARDS RIBA Regional Award 2011 Civic Trust Award 2012
MICHAEL FARADAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL SOUTHWARK, LONDON, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION The Michael Faraday Community school is a flagship project for the regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate, the largest social housing complex in Europe. Arranged over two levels the new building provides nursery, primary school, adult education and community facilities on a single site. In the main building classrooms are arranged as a ring of cellular accommodation around the ‘Living Room’ – a large open-plan learning environment at the heart of the school. A continuous external balcony provides external teaching spaces to the upper classrooms and also provides cover to the outdoor learning spaces at ground level. The main building is linked by a canopy to a smaller stand-alone pavilion, ‘The Ballroom’, which contains the school’s dining and main hall facilities.
BREEAM Very Good
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CLIENT Dorset County Council SCALE 600 m² VALUE £1.2 million
GILLINGHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL DORSET, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION A project in three parts: extensions to the current main school building; refurbishment and extension to the original Victorian schoolhouse; and a new-build classroom block linking the two The existing buildings were extended in a similar manner to their respective individually distinct styles. The new building was a modern interpretation using traditional materials to harmonise with its neighbours. A central ‘atrium’ corridor provided the linking axis, with class bases, speech / language unit, library area and cloakrooms positioned along both sides. Construction work was split into six phases to a precise timetable around term and holiday times, to minimising disruption of the school’s busy schedule.
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CLIENT RG Carter SCALE 1,600 m² VALUE £2.4 million COMPLETION 2007
WOODBRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL SUFFOLK, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION NORR was appointed by the D&B Contractor as Executive Architect to develop a concept for a new replacement 240-place primary school in Woodbridge. The school was part of a development agreement with Suffolk County Council. The project is in a sensitive wooded site and uses timber cladding and brise soleil externally to soften the form. The plan is in the form of a crescent with class bases opening out onto individual sheltered and shaded play areas. Internally the curved plan produces a stimulating series of spaces. Successfully manipulating the projects scale Glulaminated timber beams and natural light feature strongly. In all areas, the scale of spaces, window locations and heights are designed to bring delight to the children. The scheme incorporates several sustainable elements, the most noticeable of which are the roof turrets which form part of the natural ventilation scheme.
CLIENT New Line Learning SCALE 385 m² COMPLETION 2007
OLDBOROUGH LEARNING PLAZA MAIDSTONE, KENT, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION The ‘Learning Plaza Mock-up’ is a project that informed the design and layout of the innovative learning environments within the proposed new Oldborough and Senacre Schools. A total of 90 children in years 7 and 8 moved into the Plaza in January 2007 and, with the teaching staff, have been taking part in a series of induction exercises to familiarise themselves with their new learning environment.
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CLIENT Diocese of Salford, Board of Education VALUE £4 million
ST PETER’S RC PRIMARY SCHOOL BLACKBURN, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION NORR has commissioned by Salford Diocese to design a new 2FE Primary School in Blackburn. The project at St Peters RC Primary School, Mill Hill involved relocating the existing Foundation and Key Stage 1 accommodation together with the Key Stage 2 facilities onto one consolidated site. Proposals up to planning stage include general teaching accommodation, a central atrium area incorporating an IT Resource Zone, SEN Group Rooms and external (ground floor and first floor balcony) areas to every classroom. A full consultation period took place with the school and parents which included the presentation of the designs at key stages. These interactive sessions involved the use of the schools resource facilities where the plans were displayed on ‘Smart/White Boards’ and comments sketched and recorded in real-time to give the stakeholders a true and meaningful role in the design development process.
CLIENT Islington Borough Council SCALE 77 place
THE BRIDGE SCHOOL: HUNGERFORD ISLINGTON, LONDON, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
VALUE £14 million
Designed by NORR, Hungerford School is one of the most ambitious education projects ever developed by Islington Council.
COMPLETION 2007
The building, providing primary education, and Holloway School providing secondary education, accommodates a new special educational needs accommodation for the Bridge School, which was previously housed across three other sites in Islington. The two buildings will deliver a new level of mixed use for educational buildings with nearly 40 apartments for key workers and private occupation and a 60 person conference centre also included within the wider project.
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CLIENT Hutcheson’s Grammar School SCALE 650 m² VALUE £1.5 million
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HUTCHESON’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLASGOW, UK PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION NORR was asked to look at the reconfiguration of the grade ‘C’ listed junior school based around the requirement for a new library. NORR has arrived out a number of projects at this prestigious private school in Glasgow over several years, including; a new dinning facility, Kingarth street junior school library, Fotheringray building for music and IT drama building. We proposed to centre the new library at the heart of the school within two existing classrooms. Both classrooms were joined together and completely refurbished to contain an enclosed junior section, alcoves held within the existing door openings, a lowered curved ceiling which enhances the traditional windows whilst housing services and has IT and audio visual screens installed.
QUALITY + SUSTAINABILITY In each project, regardless of scale, we are driven by the pursuit of excellence. We are a creatively focused organisation believing that our ethos of ‘Intelligent Architecture’ makes life better. At the same time we are aware of our social, economic, and environmental responsibilities: we seek to implement appropriate design solutions, use resources wisely, and advise our clients accordingly.
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WE CARE ABOUT uality of Service Q Use of Energy Materials and Water Use Staff and Community Engagement Suppliers and Purchasing Transport Waste & Recycling
OUR COMMITMENT As leading members of the World’s design and construction professions, we commit ourselves to: – Place social, economic, and environmental sustainability at the core of our practices and professional responsibilities – Develop and continually improve practices, to enable the implementation of sustainable design – Educate our fellow professionals, the building industry, clients, students and the general public about the critical importance and substantial opportunities of sustainable design
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A DECADE OF GREEN BUILDINGS Working with UK government BRE/University research work Projects achieving BREEAM Excellent rating Buildings Design Advice (LCBDAA) Carbon emission / energy figures, EPC rating Carbon Management Energy Efficiency advice (CMEE) for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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