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remodelled in Strathclyde’s campus plan
£14M SCHEME has seen the remodelling of two buildings at the University of Strathclyde – the six-
storey Lord Hope building in Glasgow City Centre and the neighbouring Curran building.
The buildings were adapted for University use in the early 1980s from Collins book printers and now form the new Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences as part of the campus development plan. This new faculty, which incorporates
Law, Arts, Social Science and the former Faculty of Education, provides reconfigured workspace that enables all faculty staff to be located together within the Lord Hope building to enhance the faculty's image and encourage interdisciplinary working. Between the Lord Hope building and
Curran, which functions as a library, a new external area of public realm provides a focus for the entrances. The courtyard design also anticipates a new sports centre building to the south-west which will help create a new learning quarter for the campus. Each floor within the Lord Hope building now features a large, open-plan
Workspaces have been reconfigured to encourage interdisciplinary working
work space around the perimeter, ensuring maximum opportunity for daylight and ventilation, with a well- defined core space and support areas such as meeting rooms, breakout hubs, touchdown areas and welfare. A variety of glazing systems were used to achieve a host of design and performance criteria. Kawneer’s AA720 HI renovation TIP windows, whose narrow sightlines mimic those of the original steel windows, AA605 medium-duty swing doors and AA100 zone-drained curtain walling with 50mm sightlines and glazed in opening vents have been combined to provide the desired aesthetic. Curran, which is also concrete-framed, features
AA100 curtain walling and AA720 tilturn windows on the third and sixth floors. As well as matching the slim profiles of the existing metal windows and responding to the various existing opening conditions for each window type, the aluminium frame solution also “addressed the sustainability, durability and thermal performance criteria," said David Ross of Sheppard Robson architects. Balfour Beatty was main contractor on the scheme.
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Copper enhances the civic character of campus building
HE NEW Dudley Evolve building is an essential part of Dudley College’s masterplan to rationalise its existing estate and concentrate facilities within a ‘Learning Quarter’, focused around the existing Broadway Campus in the town centre conservation area. Metz Architects’ design is a thoroughly modern building, civic in character and acknowledging its prominent position. The focal point of the scheme is a cantilevered theatre auditorium, clad in bands of randomly arranged horizontal copper panels with three different surfaces. In addition to Nordic Standard mill
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finish copper, Aurubis Architectural supplied panels in Nordic Brown and Nordic Brown Light, both pre-oxidised at its factory to give straightaway the same
oxidised surface that otherwise develops over time in the environment. The thickness of the oxide layer determines its colour: either Nordic Brown Light or the darker Nordic Brown. Dudley Evolve is allied both to a nearby higher education facility and to a new sixth form centre, ’Dudley Sixth’. This faces the Evolve building across an established park (aptly linked by a copper statue of Apollo) and mirrors its design approach, also including horizontal bands of copper panels with varying degrees of oxidisation.
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