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NEWS AWARDS
CaSA’s domestic refurb wins South West RIBA award
Architects CaSA have been announced as winners of the 2022 RIBA South West Building of the Year, for the refurbishment of a 1960s family home in Bristol which focused on affordable and “future-proofed” solutions. RIBA believes that with renovation of poor quality housing a priority, the project offers a model for innovative refurbishment, calling it a “masterstroke of affordable, sustainable, retrofi t design thinking.”
The owner of Great Brockeridge, Simon Coulson, said the project was achieved against the odds, with incentives pushing for new build rather than refurbishment: “I was aggrieved that you could knock the house down and start again, and not pay VAT; but if you wanted to go to all the effort and compromise that comes with retrofi tting, you have to pay 20% more for the privilege.” He added: “If the Government is
AWARDS
Northumbria Uni architectural students win again at RIBA awards
Architecture students at Northumbria University have triumphed for the second year running in the region’s Student Awards run by the North East branch of the RIBA.
Evelina Somoglou and Laura McClorey were announced the winners of this year’s awards following what RIBA said was a “rigorous process” judged by designers from Ryder Architecture and ALT Studios. The entries, which were “segmented into RIBA’s Part 1 and Part 2-level
classifi cations,” comprised the students’ main end of year projects. These were a design that would encourage recycling in the community, plus one that “re-imagined a disused space to encourage tourism and give it a new identity.” Architecture BA (Hons) graduate Evelina, originally from Greece, won for her Part 1-level project, The Battery Hub, which “conceived of a very different future for a former garage and car park that now demolished as part of Newcastle’s Pilgrim Street redevelopment.” The design included a centre for reprocessing used batteries, and an recreation area that would harness the movement of users to make “kinetic electricity.” The judges commented: “The project
confi dently addresses its complex, urban site constraints, art deco-style facades and existing structures. This is an impressive understanding of context proposing a sensitive and fun implementation of
future technologies.” Architecture Degree Apprentice Laura McClorey’s project ‘Belfast Stories’ (which won the Part 2-level prize) envisioned the building as a hub that would “not only reach out to a number of different potential visitors to the city by telling its story, but would also attract people from different parts of Belfast and connect them.”
Laura is now also in the running for the RIBA President’s Medal, and is due to begin her Part 3 studies, which will result in her becoming a fully-qualifi ed architect next year.
The judges said: “Belfast Stories’ acknowledges and celebrates Belfast’s heritage, carrying itself with grace from masterplan strategies to building details. The architectural response is well considered, with new build elements complementing the revitalised 1930s art deco building in a sensitive and well executed manner.”
truly looking to push a low-carbon future, we can’t just be knocking down buildings every time we are unhappy with the aesthetics of them.”
RIBA judge Fergus Feilden commented: “Great Brockeridge is an intelligent, exemplary refurbishment demonstrating how existing building stock may be retained, renewed, and upgraded through intelligent design.” CaSA director Adam Dennes explained the design approach: “Our initial proposal aimed to retain as much of the existing building as possible, therefore limiting the embodied carbon of the redevelopment. Though constrained by a modest budget, we used opportunities to externally insulate and reclad to create a striking contemporary exterior.”
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