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PROJECT REPORT: CULTURAL, CIVIC & FAITH BUILDINGS


WARM WOOD MATERIALITY View from first floor dance studio – the new cinema spaces and first floor rooms for hire are created in CLT Image © Bennetts Associates


as a collective endeavour; I don’t see the point in not taking the people we’re working with on that journey.” He adds: “What’s the point in spending five years with people that you don’t really want to spend time with? It’s a large chunk of your life!” Bogle believes that establishing client ‘buy in’ at the beginning of projects bears considerable fruit later on: “It just helps with lots of decisions, because sometimes we’re going to be challenging, and sometimes we’re going to be challenged, and you need to have that core relationship there.”


Despite the design post Stage 3 needing to be delivered “from people’s bedrooms” due to Covid restrictions in 2020, Bogle says the process was very straightforward, and the


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client “was very accommodating. He adds: “They gave us the space that we needed; they trusted us, when they needed to trust us.” There were cost increases on the project largely attributed to post-Covid inflation and global conflicts, and a value engineering process with contractor GPF Lewis, but Bogle is confident the design has not been compromised, though they “worked really hard with GPF Lewis to reduce costs on the building when necessary.”


A model of Hertford


The new building created is at once a unified design and a set of forms, with a “grain and a scale that works as a contemporary object that also works very much in this historic context.”


ADF JULY/AUGUST 2024


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