a live music performance venue for 850 people, a premium café, numerous bars and a three tier skate park. This is the largest permanent venture by Vans and the first European edition of the House of Vans, following the first in Brooklyn NY in 2010. The venue was designed through collab-
oration between designer and profession- al skateboarder Pete Hellicar of Hellicar and Lewis and architect and designer Tim Greatrex.
“The House of Vans
London is a vibrant new 2,500 sq m mixed use creative centre, located within the brick arches of the railway lines heading out of Waterloo Station. ”
Cost consultants, project managers and
CDM coordinators for the scheme were Building Construction Solutions (BCS) and clients agents and construction man- agers were Black Sparrow Presents. Following the brief to provide a cultural
hub for skateboarding, art, film and music utilising the layout of the tunnels, Pete and Tim delineated the four main functions of the brief so that each was housed within a specific tunnel. They allocated a tunnel for art including a gallery with artist’s labs to create and display art exhibitions; a tunnel for film incorporating a cinema/screening room (which also serves to house talks and debates); a tunnel for music including an 850 capacity gig venue; and a tunnel for skateboarding including a skatepark for all levels of skateboarding. It was vital that the spaces flowed into
one another in order to inspire the flow of ideas through creative pursuits. Creative design features
entrance counter, which takes the form of a swimming pool section, complete with pool coping stones and a ‘love seat’. The entrance ramp has concrete banked sides rising from a point to a full wall face and acts as an enticing surface to skateboard, whilst the café/kitchen enclosure form is inspired by the large scale concrete water pipes skated in the US. The plan for the skatepark was for it to accommodate three tunnel
spaces to
allow for varying layouts and abilities. The main space is the concrete ‘bowl’
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HPES TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS LTD
HPES Technical Solutions Ltd are specialist contractors that provide electrical ex- pertise for entertainment, theatre and televised outdoor events. Having recently celebrated 10 years, the firm has provided services to an array of prestigious clients; recently including Babcock, LOCOG and Glastonbury Festival. HPES Technical Solutions Ltd also provided specialist installation and consultancy
services to the Commonwealth Games host broadcaster; SVG TV. Other recent projects include replacing production mains at the London West End Apollo Theatre and they are also in the process of upgrading the emergency lighting power systems at The Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue. We spoke with HPES Managing Director Hugh Percival to find out more about the
firms recent project, The House of Vans. He commented: “We were brought in at the beginning to design the power system for the space.
For efficiency and cost effectiveness, the venue was largely electrically stripped and refitted. We worked closely with the architects to design the means of distributing power and lighting arrangements in a visually sympathetic manner. Refreshingly, there wasn’t a fixed specification that we worked to; we were given a broad outline by the architect and provided indicative pricing from there.” “Once we began work on site, the project benefited from our ability to interpret,
design and think ahead; we provided everything from the heavy power installation to the final fit out. We also made provision for the main mechanical containment for power cabling and other services.” Hugh said it meant a lot to be involved in the House of Vans project, he added: “We were pleased that the client and architects were happy to work closely with us
and trust our judgement about how things needed to be done. It is a project that we thoroughly enjoyed doing and we would welcome the opportunity to work with Vans again on another project of that nature. “We pride ourselves on attention to detail; our ability to focus on understanding a
client’s needs and delivering their requirements.”sional skills of our employees and a well established blue chip client list.”
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