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PROJECT REPORT: EDUCATION & RESEARCH FACILITIES


of a ‘Greek hill village’, all flooded with natural daylight through the diagrid of the timber roof. Inside the ‘village,’ the central space contains the more private, technical laboratories and engineering areas. Surrounding these technical areas are a network of meeting spaces, breakout areas and individual booths and exhibition space, “maximising the opportunity for cross-disciplinary meetings and chance encounters that often spark the best ideas,” said the architects.


The placing of internal terraces around this ‘inner sanctum’ ensures that every space feels open and maintains a direct contact with the exterior and nature. The unifying umbrella of the timber roof stretches the full length and breadth of the building, making the building feel more intimate.


Project beginnings


Cullinan Studio has worked with WMG since 1992, and from the start of the project eight years ago the architects built on the trust they had fostered over the years. “This level of engagement – from feasibility right through to delivery – proved essential to the development of the brief and to the eventual success of the building,” said the architects.


The proposed project was to bring together three facilities in a shared building – one for TMETC, one for Jaguar Land Rover, and one for the Warwick Manufacturing Group, with a combination of shared and private spaces. “Through discussing this, at first separately,” explains Langmuir, “we were able to convince them that the economies of sharing space would mean they could have more as a shared member of the group facility than they could otherwise achieve.” To achieve these ideas, the architects and client visited a number of relevant projects to help in identifying the best solutions possible. Two of the main inspirations proved to be the BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, and the One Angel Square office building in Manchester. The former, at first not an obvious connection to this project, impressed the team. The recording studios are in the heart of the building, surrounded by glass walls, so the journalists around the studio can see their work being broadcast. This has reportedly “transformed BBC staff’s connection to the production,” and worker satisfaction as a result. The latter building influenced the architects with its huge


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atrium and offices located around the space; the architects took notes on how the project had achieved a “unified vision that connected people from all sorts of different buildings around the country and pulled them into one centre.” Langmuir comments: “The main thing we learned in this early process was that you have to work hard on consultation if you’re going to place people close together.” He adds: “If you’re going to take people from cellular offices to an open building, you have to work on it, take feedback, and bring people along in the process.”


Consultation


Having identified the challenges, Cullinan Studio led an in-depth consultation process to explore and develop a shared working culture. This helped prepare building users for the significant change to their workplace settings and gave the architects a “unique insight into how people wanted to work in their new building and how best to support them.”


Langmuir explains” “It was important that we undertook vision exercises at the beginning, talking ideas through with the clients and listening to their visions for the project.”


Using various methods such as town hall-style presentations with visualisation


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