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PROJECT REPORT: HERITAGE & ADAPTIVE REUSE
© Fiona Smallshaw
“It’s exciting to be given a blank box, but it’s even more exciting when it has so many layers to it” Michael Kieck, MoreySmith
original structure. It further defers to the original building by being set back from both of the latter’s long facades, and its dark-coloured materials “keep it in the shadow of the Listed structure,” asserts Partridge. With the Generator Building being located within the flood zone of the adjacent floating harbour, Staffordshire blue bricks were required from the ground to the first floor with the remainder of the extension using a dark grey cladding.
Internal interventions As well as updating the building’s envelope, The Bush Consultancy were consented to alter the internal arrangement while MoreySmith worked on the interior design in line with Clockwise’s and Castleforge’s ambitions. Partridge explains that “a key consideration of the consents was that our additions can easily be removed without affecting the original structure.” For example, the sixth floor has been created from a stand-alone steel frame that sits on the fifth floor slab and fixed to the external walls, and studwork to new partitions have
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minimal fixings into the glazed brick. The fourth floor mezzanine extension was to an existing 1980s intervention, namely the added floor which it largely replaces. The ground floor boasts meeting rooms, event space and a bar, with an adjacent cafe lounge area which Michael Kieck of MoreySmith describes as the building’s “social heart space.” The atrium adjacent to the main entrance required Bush to remove part of the first floor. This alteration was to a structure provided as part of the 1980s development, and so didn’t affect the original layout.
Starting on the first floor, dedicated work sections with breakout tea zones with kitchenettes and soft seating encourage cross collaboration and interaction, which continues on the upper levels. “It’s like a small market space for businesses. As there is so much transparency, you are aware of who’s in the spaces, and you can ‘tag team’ projects or clients,” says Kieck. While there is access to a lift at the rear, the raw metal staircases are located in areas that mean occupants generally have to
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