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PROJECT REPORT: EDUCATION & RESEARCH FACILITIES
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The corridors are a mix of colour and stone fl oor slabs, exposed brick vaulting and stone walls Photos © Peter Cook
housing the co-working areas were faithful to the elegant Nightingale proportions, and fi nished as “simple, white volumes to contrast the corridors,” which are a mix of colour and stone fl oor slabs, exposed brick vaulting and stone walls. Iain asserts that a signifi cant amount
of fl oor space has been added, somewhat deceptively given the building initially appears largely unaltered. The extensions “wrap over the roof, so there is a new roof top to the pavilions on top of the extensions, as well as a link corridor at level four which never really existed before.” He says this is an example of how the design “consolidates the circulation, so that it’s much more interconnected.” He says the level four spaces are “much more quirky,” being in the roof space, with rafters exposed. “One of the great things about the scheme is the variety of types of space, the wards, the smaller rooms within the wards, the breakout and dwell spaces along the south, and the new seminar teaching spaces up in level four.”
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There have been limited additions of new facades: “We tried to use the existing building as much as possible and then also really show it off,” says Tinsdale. “So as much as we’ve created a new four storey element in between those two wards, we’ve only got one line of new external facade. Further space effi ciencies have been achieved by “pulling the core [ancillary, mechanically ventilated] spaces” such as toilets, the IT hub, escape stairs and support spaces together into clusters. “This maximises the natural ventilation that we can achieve around the outer perimeter for the actual teaching spaces,” says Tinsdale. In terms of acoustics, Iain admits the architects were “quite worried about the dwell spaces in the corridors,“ but that in the event, “because it’s rubble stone, it’s quite multifaceted, and it automatically breaks a lot of the reverb up.” However, in the teaching spaces, there were stricter demands, and there was “a lot of work done to stop sound transmission between spaces and the new linings, new ceilings, new fi nishes; we’ve got absorption
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