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PROJECT REPORT: HERITAGE & CONSERVATION


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The project “ticked all the boxes,” he adds, it being a brownfield site, and fulfilling both the regeneration and placemaking needs of the local authority. “Because of this, the planners and council were extremely supportive,” says Cooper. “We engaged with them all early in the process, and everyone was very helpful.” He adds that it has already proven to have kick-started the regeneration the local authority was hoping for.


Free reign


Cooper says the team had “fairly free reign” when it came to the design process – the client’s brief dictating mainly on the building’s use and how many units were needed to make it viable.


The waterside provided another key design inspiration, says the architect, the team being “keen to build on its language, along with the industrial elements of the mill.” Cooper says that the tall glazed roof extension with exposed steel framework was intended to “evoke this dialogue between water and industry.” One of the key elements of the process here was to combine this design language with that of the building’s historic nature, and to reinforce the deep reveals of the brickwork in the new build elements to make it look “part of the same family.” “On the new wing,” he explains, “we


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went to quite a lot of trouble to get deep reveals in the cladding to hark back to the existing structure,” something that the planners were also reportedly keen on. “Traditional buildings’ deep brick reveals are clearly something that’s missed,” he adds, with modern buildings tending to have much shallower depths. On the inside, the team worked very closely with the interior designers Kick Associates to continue these themes and “bring the building back to life,” ensuring a continuation of the same design values as its exterior, to create a holistic overall effect. The project’s architect tells me that the whole design process had to be somewhat “fluid” here, as when removing the 80s office additions such as the suspended ceilings, ever more elements of the building’s history were revealed – to subsequently be exploited in the creation of the final design. This includes the original cast iron columns, which being structural could not be relocated or removed, and instead have been embraced within the apartments and communal areas.


Brickwork


The Mill involved many challenges in its construction process to realise these designs, from the ground all the way up to the new addition. “Starting from the bottom,” says Cooper, the existing


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The tall glazed roof extension with exposed steel framework was intended to “evoke this dialogue between water and industry”


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