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40 PROJECT REPORT: EDUCATION & RESEARCH FACILITIES


PROJECT FACTFILE


Location: University Road, University of Warwick Site area: 17,800 m2 Internal floor area: 33,330 m2 Value: c. £85m


Construction programme: 2015-2019 Client: University of Warwick; Tata Motors; Jaguar Land Rover; WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) Architect: Cullinan Studio Interior designer: Cullinan Studio Structural engineer: Arup Services engineer: Arup Civil engineer: Arup Fire engineer: Buro Happold and Fire Guidance Acoustician: Buro Happold QS: Rider Levett Bucknall Project manager: Rider Levett Bucknall


Planning consultant: Turley Contractor: Balfour Beatty Interiors fit-out: Penson Carpets: Chroma Global Flooring Specialist lighting: Arup Signage/wayfinding: Maynard Landscape architect: Grant Associates


software, building users were able to easily envision new ways of working. Individual research groups and academics previously working in ‘silos’ on different sites would be brought together under one roof with an unusually high percentage of shared and open spaces, designed with future flexibility in mind. With many of the NAIC client body being used to a high level of 3D modelling, the architects reportedly had to “up their game” when it came to BIM models. “They do everything in 3D, so right from scratch we had to create digital designs and update them by next week, which was quite a rapid learning curve.”


“They were very good at reviewing our designs,” he adds. “They would go into our models on a regular basis and leave, in effect, post-it notes inside the model for us to pick up on.”


Privacy


There were a few big obstacles that had to be overcome through the design process, largely concerned with allowing the various companies to work privately when they wish. Defending intellectual property is vital in the automotive industry, explains the architect: “If a car design is seen, it can be copied, produced, and out into the market faster in Korea or China that they can here.” As such, beyond the discreet placing of more sensitive aspects of the building’s


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functions, the architects approached privacy from multiple perspectives: “You have to interrogate the need for privacy; is it visual privacy, audible privacy, if you see it at a distance does it matter, or is it just up close that it has to be hidden?” In this context, one of the hurdles that needed to be cleared was “getting everyone to agree to put a big window into the engineering hall,” he continues. “To assuage the legitimate fears of industrial espionage, we put giant hospital type curtains around the bay so you could close them off if you need to.”


Privacy was complicated further by the integration of students into the building – some who are involved in the automotive projects to at least some degree, and others who simply come for the cafe and a place to study. As such, there is a clear split between private zones and shared facilities, with a barrier between the public cafe and study areas and the rest of the ground floor. These areas also host the student spaces, exhibitions zones and meeting zones, with the more sensitive areas distributed on floors above.


Working spaces


Another challenge was to enable all the differing work spaces to be shared and to work effectively for a variety of teams, necessitating future-proofed and flexible rooms with reconfigurable walls and


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