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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We all know that new buildings don’t work as we expect them
to and good money is being spent investigating ‘the performance gap’; but we do
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yesterday I went to a monthly <a href="http://www.cbxechange.org/" target="_blank">CBx breakfast seminar</a> at the
<a href="http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/energy" target="_blank">UCL Energy Institute</a> for what I thought would be a timely catch-up but which turned
out to be a brilliant wake-up call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Mr
Soft Landings’ Rod Bunn of <a href="http://www.bsria.co.uk/" target="_blank">BSRIA</a> rattled through the story with some key do’s
and don’t’s in how to define and then deliver the client’s desired
outcomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However like other innovative tools
such as the Design Quality Indicator, unless we are vigilant our industry will
spare no effort in turning Soft Landings into a tick-box exercise, thereby
destroying its value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Soft Landings is the graduated
handover of a new or refurbished building, where a period of professional
aftercare by the project team is a client requirement – planned for and carried
out from inception onwards – and lasting for up to three years
post-completion.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In discussion we agreed that although it does cost the
client money to procure this additional service, it is much cheaper than the
cost of operating an underperforming building for a hundred + years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tamsin Tweddell (Max Fordham and Partners) and Alasdair Donn
(Wilmott Dixon Construction) described the Soft Landing approach for Keynsham
Town Hall, where the public sector client decided they wanted an office with an
‘A’-rated DEC (note: not an ‘A’-rated EPC). This <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>includes operational energy and forced the
design team, the construction team and the client to work out where the energy
risks lay at each stage of the process and who would manage them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rod had explained that it is difficult but just about
possible to use soft landings in a D&B contract because soft landings
demands effective collaboration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
quite know who is responsible for the industry getting itself into the current
impossible situation where lawyers and project managers fruitlessly endeavour
to satisfy clients’ risk aversion with customised contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having been the client for our own office
with top engineers and an excellent contractor, the dysfunction of the controls
defies belief.</span></div>
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through our Cambridge Maths building, I cannot wait for us to do a full soft
landings project, starting on day one with client commitment and expectation
and all round collaboration – what a delight that would be!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we had better start by joining the <a href="http://www.bsria.co.uk/information-membership/events/networks/soft-landings" target="_blank">Softlandings User Group</a>.</span></div>
Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-24163423740805278612014-06-09T10:40:00.003+01:002014-06-19T10:41:11.795+01:00The story of Ready Mix Concrete HQ drawn by Ted Cullinan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On 2nd June 2014 the <a href="http://www.c20society.org.uk/" target="_blank">Twentieth Century Society</a> organised an event in support of the application for <a href="http://www.cullinanstudio.com/projects/rmc.html" target="_blank">Ready Mix Concrete</a> (RMC) HQ to be listed.<br />
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RMC (now Cemex house), completed by Cullinans in 1990, is threatened with demolition having been declared surplus to requirements. The Twentieth Century Society, along with a number of highly regarded architects, engineers and designers, is <a href="http://www.c20society.org.uk/news/press-release-architectural-heavyweights-back-1990s-office-listing-bid/" target="_blank">backing our application</a> to list the building in order to save it.<br />
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The event was introduced by C20 Society Director, Catherine Croft, after which Ted Cullinan drew the story of the design of the building. He presented the story in three chapters: <br />
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<li>Working with the climate</li>
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First he described the existing building; listed 17th century Eastley End House, a stable block known as Meadlake House, a late 19th century Surrey style Arts and Crafts house known as The Grange, a lake, protected trees and a number of listed walls. Ted showed how he created a courtyard of roof gardens over offices to satisfy the planners’ interest in the view from St Ann’s Hill beyond the lake and M25.<br />
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The second chapter explained how a metre of soil was put on top of the offices with a trough around the edge with a hedge for sun-shading. The underfloor plenum allowed cooled air to be circulated for night purging of the exposed RMC concrete slab. Ted described how the roof vents for the labs and the kitchens were designed as chess pieces.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ventilation disguised as chess pieces</td></tr>
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In the final chapter Ted explained how the buildings supported recreation as well as workspace - the gardens can be walked across and enjoyed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The RMC's roof garden was the largest in Europe at the time of completion</td></tr>
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Catherine then opened up the discussion to the audience, which included many members of the original design team, on why the building should be saved.<br />
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Former member of Cullinans, job architect Richard Gooden of 4orm, said that RMC was important for its innovative use of thermal mass and the novel linking of landscape, place and building. It feels that it has always been there.<br />
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Miriam Fitzpatrick of Dublin University, who did her Part 3 on RMC explained how the marriage of the landscape and the making of place didn’t seem to be high on the agenda in the 1980s, but everyboby loves a garden.<br />
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Greg Penoyre of Penoyre & Prasad suggested RMC’s range of work environments was cleverer than Google’s LA office he had recenly visited because it creates a unique range of places for reflection. As a workplace RMC is special and hard to repeat.<br />
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The RMC environmental engineer, Max Fordham, explained the building, being in the greenbelt, had had to meet strict conditions to get planning and those conditions should still apply - making it difficult for anyone else to replace what is there. He explained an advantage of the single-storey office building is its ability to create a natural rooflight down the middle, saving on energy in lighting. RMC has all the attributes of a smart office building but was one of the first not to need air-conditioning. The swimming pool was separated by an air curtain and a heat pump - now very fashionable but at the time, novel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ted's drawing from the C20 Society event describing the sustainable environmental elements of the building</td></tr>
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Chris Twinn, of Twinn Sustainability Innovation, recalled how he had been working at Arup for five years at the time RMC was completed. He was not involved in the project but saw it as an eye-opener: suddenly you didn’t need air-conditioning. He has was able to draw from those ideas in subsequent projects - Hopkins’ Nottingham Inland Revenue which was to be entirely passively cooled, Portcullis House and BedZED.<br />
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Ian Craig, engineer on RMC, thought of RMC as 100 projects in one, describing every detail as great fun and totally original.<br />
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Former RIBA President, Sunand Prasad of Penoyre & Prasad, was struck at how the engineers in the room had spoken up. If there is a third industrial revolution based on natural systems, the RMC is an early essay in how we can solve the problems of the future. It has inspired. <br />
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The discussion progressed to other possible uses for the building, which included a boutique hotel and an academic workplace, but it is widely seen as a great place to go on working in.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The RMC offices create a formal court for Eastley End House</td></tr>
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Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-87891908282205530222014-06-05T17:37:00.003+01:002014-06-06T10:47:04.468+01:00Fitzwilliam College, Central Building Phase 1 Opening Ceremony<br />
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May I attended the official opening of Phases 1 and 1A of the refurbishment to
the central building at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Gotham Book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This forms the
first part of a five year staged renovation project to upgrade the function and
fabric of the building, designed by Denys Lasdun in 1959, to provide more opportunities
for student use, conferences and events. This went hand in hand with upgrading
the services and environmental performance to reduce energy consumption and
improve the internal conditions. We completed the feasibility study to suggest
the packages of work in early 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Gotham Book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Phase 1 began on
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the building of a new extension to the north corner of the central building.
This provides two new offices to the ground floor and a new servery to the
first, linked by a new stair and service lift from the kitchen. This opens up
the opportunity, (to be completed as part of a later phase), for a new
circulation route around the Hall at first floor. This will unlock many of the
major rooms on this level, some of which currently can only be accessed by passing
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renovated the Old Library adjacent to the servery. This room had become
available following the construction of the new Olisa Library in the College
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conferences, lectures, large meetings and events such as Wedding receptions for
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is over 30m long we sought to break its scale down by removing the relatively
low original tile grid ceiling. We then created curved coffers aligned to the
eight large windows, with lower sections of ceiling where down stand beams
dictated the level. The lower sections house radiant ceiling panels, acoustic
render and spot and track lighting to illuminate the College’s collection of paintings,
mounted on the walls to great effect. The curved coffers are fitted with adjustable
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the roof with insulation where there had been none and replaced the roof lights
with new opening types. The existing sash windows were renovated to incorporate
double glazing and air seals, which in combination with the roof lights provide
a naturally ventilated approach to cooling the space.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Gotham Book"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Master of
the College, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nicola Padfield</span> ceremonially
“gunned in” the commemorative slate plaque to a rousing round of applause from
the team; Fitzwilliam College, (Client), Cullinan Studio (Architect), SEH French
(Main Contractor), Roger Parker Associates (M&E engineer) and Peter Dann
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Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15472637879586822785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-47400055802140532862014-06-03T12:56:00.001+01:002014-06-03T12:56:42.567+01:00Clever Energy: People PowerIn May we hosted a talk - 'Clever Energy: People Power' - as part of Open-City's Green Sky Thinking Week 2014 - and filmed it too...<br />
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Speakers: Mark Hewitt of ICAX on inter-seasonal heat transfer, Rokiah Yaman of LEAP on developing micro-anaerobic digestion in central London, and Agamemnon Otero of Repowering London on creating community-owned local energy.Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-23669949108653508322014-05-08T10:02:00.001+01:002014-05-08T10:07:09.502+01:00Edge Commission begins to get some definition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last evening the <a href="http://www.edgedebate.com/">Edge</a> held the third session of the Commission of Inquiry into Future Professionalism focussing on ‘Society’ with the President of the Landscape Institute, the Immediate Past Presidents of ICE and RTPI and Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA and formerly Head of Tony Blair’s Policy Unit at No 10. The Commission is sponsored by the Ove Arup Trust and is chaired by Paul Morrell, the first UK Government Chief Construction Adviser (2009-12); he is supported by<br />
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• Isabel MacAllister, Director of Sustainability at Mace,<br />
• Barrister Jenny Baster, Arup,<br />
• Architect Karen Rogers, currently acting as a major client<br />
• QS Tony Burton, incoming Chairman of CIC and<br />
• Prof Alan Penn, Bartlett Dean (unable to attend this session)<br />
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We will need to wait for Denise Chevin’s write-up to be posted alongside the first two on the Edge website and for the final deliberations of the Commission, hopefully before the summer. The over-riding concern of the Edge is how to promote inter-disciplinary behaviour and collaboration between the institutions. They of course all have histories, some long and distinguished, and they have members who often disagree, making the development of policies difficult and shared policies more difficult. <br />
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This was brought to a head in a remarkably joined up and rapid response to the flooding in the Somerset Levels earlier this year. Sue Illman led the response from the Landscape Institute with an open letter to David Cameron with support from 16 Institutions but sadly not including the RIBA or RTPI! Her letter hit the magic spot of the first story on the Today programme and thus achieved wide coverage. Matthew Taylor pointed out collaborative action is essential but speed is not always a virtue as Chris Smith demonstrated by choosing the precise moment as Chair of the Environment Agency to intervene and shut up the red-meat politicians calling for the abolition of his Agency.<br />
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Matthew described a three tier theoretical framework within which our Institutions operate:<br />
• Leadership/followship that can control or can convene opinions<br />
• Solidarity through membership that can be exclusive or inclusive<br />
• Individualism/enterprise that could promote creativity or commercialism<br />
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And much else besides – read Denise to find out more including what to do about the surplus of architects and the shortage of engineers; my long-standing position has been to reduce the architecture training to four years (+ practice) the first of which is a cross-disciplinary Foundation Year, so that more of us end up in the right place. Interestingly this hovered within the Farrell Review if not in the final Report. The Chairman had the best quote of the evening “architects are the nurses of the construction industry; it doesn’t matter how badly you treat them, there will always be more waiting to become one!"Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-27701275642719678282014-04-14T12:02:00.003+01:002014-04-14T12:04:50.000+01:00'Retrofit for purpose' by Penoyre and Prasad<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Judging by there being over 10m hits on Google, ‘Retrofit
for Purpose’ is a title that resonates. Penoyre and Prasad’s book of that
title, subtitled ‘Low energy Renewal of Non-Domestic Buildings’ and launched by
RIBA Publishing at Ecobuild, is essential reading especially for those teaching
architecture as solely the art of building new buildings.</div>
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The reality is that we need to make much better use of the
buildings we have already got rather than pulling them down before they have
even been paid for; and of course expecting new buildings to last for at least
200 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book tells you how, with
11 case studies preceded by 6 classic essays including ones by Sunand Prasad
and three heroes of Building Performance Evaluation - Bill Bordass, Roderic
Bunn and Rajat Gupta with Matt Gregg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was less familiar with the experience in Germany and USA presented by Mark
Siddall and it was interesting to learn that in the Sates it was private sector
commercial that pulled the transformation not legislation. But the show-stopper
for me was Richard Francis’ economic and management arguments in ‘Spend to
make: financing commercial retrofits.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Francis of The Monomoy Company spells it out so clearly and suggests
‘there are signs that a fundamental shift is under way’ and not before time.</div>
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Assembling the data for the case studies must have been a
battle of wills, a battle well worth fighting as we have good comparable energy
and carbon data, plans and sections and before and after photographs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are 5 offices, 2 university buildings, 1
visitor centre, 1 leisure centre, 1 school and Penoyre and Prasad’s own heroic
transformation of the Guy’s Hospital tower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I should probably declare an interest as one of the offices is our own
transformation of a Victorian Foundry into a really comfortable BREEAM
Excellent office, showing off our own work.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Siddall suggests that to comply with the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EU Energy Efficient Directive, a 33-year
programme will be required necessitating the refurbishment of 492,350m</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">²</span>
of the total estate per year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At say
between £500 and £1,000 per m</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">²</span>, the annual expenditure would
be some £250m to £500m per annum; and that is just for the public estate
leaving aside over 3m privately owned non-domestic buildings’</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that will require top architects,
engineers and construction managers with new skills, working collaboratively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LETS GO!</div>
Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-49979865731006694142014-03-24T11:01:00.000+00:002014-07-30T10:44:29.432+01:00Eastfields RegenerationWe have been appointed with Levitt Bernstein and Proctor Matthews to explore options for the regeneration of Eastfields estate in the London Borough of Merton.<br />
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Circle Housing Merton Priory selected teams of architects to support the proposed regeneration of three areas in the Borough. They have been consulting residents since last summer about the possible demolition and redevelopment of over 1,200 homes. Proposals for this <a href="http://mertonregen.org.uk/" target="_blank">major regeneration scheme</a> include the provision of new homes, public open space and community facilities.<br />
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Our team, led by Levitt Bernstein Associates, will work with local residents throughout the year to create an outline masterplan for a new neighbourhood for Eastfields in Mitcham.<br />
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Barry McCullough at Levitt Bernstein said: <i>"Despite being close to the Academy and some well-loved leisure facilities, the Eastfields neighbourhood doesn't feel linked to its surroundings. We want to work with residents and the Circle Housing Merton Priory team to connect it with the local area by creating an attractive layout including safe streets and open spaces that are used by all at all hours of the day."</i><br />
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The design work begins in May and will include a series of exhibitions, workshops, site visits and public events through the year.Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-77343383365145171412014-03-17T14:10:00.002+00:002014-03-17T14:16:09.318+00:00UK Shelter Forum Pecha Kucha 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"Ready? Ok, GO!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And off I went, trying not to
stumble over my words for the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds while I spoke about
my work in Haiti over the last 4 years. The crowd was a warm but intimidating
mix of PHD candidates, masters students and shelter professionals. It was over
before I knew it, it seemed to go well enough, people understood what I said
and maybe even agreed with some of it. I managed to navigate the 20 slides
without too many hiccups - aside from being handed a very squeaky microphone
early on - and I even got a couple of laughs! It was about time for a beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A few moments earlier the organiser
of the <a href="http://www.shelterforum.info/" target="_blank">UK Shelter Forum Pecha Kucha</a> had plucked my name at random from a hat. I
was the first of 10 speakers presenting a wide range of research and findings. Subjects
ranged from archaeology in the Antilles to retrofitting in Peru and the
Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The shelter forum is an annual
event which brings together various researchers, educational institutions,
NGOs, professionals and government bodies who are involved shelter and
settlement reconstruction after disasters. The Pecha Kucha, which is held the evening
before the main event, is where researchers, recent graduates and people
working in the field are selected to present. The list of presenters and their
subjects were as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Avery Doninger, Oxford Brookes
University - ‘Transition to What?’Evaluating the transitional shelter process
in Leogane, Haiti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Pedro Clarke, Oxford Brookes
University - Learning from Disasters: Lisbon 1755<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Aditya Aachi, Architectural
Association - Haiti - Simbi Hubs, IDP camps and Bamboo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Vicente Sandoval, UCL - Questioning
disaster risk and reconstruction: A multi-scalar inquiry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Martin Dolan, Oxford Brookes
University - How was the 'social urbanism' of Medellin made possible?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Ryan Sommerville, University of
Westminster - Preparing for post-disaster recovery: Open Data, Community and
Built Environment Professionals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Julia Hansen, UCL -
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Josh Macabuag, UCL - Seismic
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Kate Crawford, UCL and Alice
Samson, Cambridge University - Dialogue between archaeology and humanitarian
shelter: resilience in pre-Columbian house-building and repair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- Elizabeth Wagemann, Cambridge
University - Implementing academic research: a pathway for impact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- The Philippines Sheltering Response: three months after typhoon Haiyan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Joseph Ashmore, who was the
informal host for the night rounded up by saying that he was very impressed
with both the content and visual standard of presentations and I have to say I
agree. It was particularly good to see that presenters hadn't shied away from
showing what they had found when probing deeper into certain situations. Martin
Dolan's presentation showed some of the darker aspects of positive interventions
which were a result of the regeneration of Medellin, Colombia - though all we
see in the media are the success stories and glossy images. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Though these events are primarily
a platform for students to discuss their research in public, they can be an
important tool to hold a mirror up to the sector and open up the discussion on
how to improve in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all
these interventions can be a direct challenge to the sovereignty of the states
in which they are implemented and hence there is a responsibility to make sure
they are the best they can be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The event overall was both
mentally stimulating and enjoyable. I look forward to it becoming an annual
booking in my diary. A big thanks to Victoria Maynard and Bernadette Devilat
who organised the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Videos and
posters from the evening will be posted here once they become available. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Aditya Aachihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482973304461966738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-79495099250898899662014-03-07T17:31:00.001+00:002014-03-10T08:23:30.509+00:00A day in Prague<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Having never been in the
Czech Republic, I just had to spend a day in Prague on my way to give two talks
in Olomouc, a day of contrasting delights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had asked for some guidance from the director of the programme I was
teaching on; so having arrived mid-morning, I left my luggage in the hotel and
set off by tram for the House of the Black Madonna armed with Veronika
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Cubist collection has been moved to the museum, the building (Josef Go<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">čá</span>r
1911-12) is formidably Kubist and upstairs in 2005 they recreated the splendid Grand
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Orient. A beer and sandwich in this atmospheric interior was just what I needed but
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1985-1992); surely the Czech communists didn’t actually build a piece of Archigram?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It manages to be both modern high-tech and so
old-fashioned at the same time. Not only is it still open but it has a posh
restaurant and bar and a one-bedroom hotel, all with great views.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being mid-afternoon on a weekday there were
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day it was off
to Olomouc on the Leo Express; with the help of Google translate I had been
able to buy my ticket online in London for what was a breeze – 157 miles non-stop
in 133 minutes, in clean comfort with refreshments and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an airline type screen telling us where we
were, all for £6.00 – get that HSII!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
interesting thing is that the National Railways are challenged by Leo and one
other private company using the same tracks!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></div>
Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-47579892820972220742014-01-28T16:21:00.000+00:002014-01-28T16:21:40.973+00:00Emerging Trends in School Design<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last week a bunch of Cullinans keen beans attended ‘Shaping
the Future: Spaces for Education’ talk at the Geological Society <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- part of this season’s ‘Emerging Trends’
series by the Royal Academy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
speakers were Philip Marsh (drMM), John Whiles (Jestico Whiles), and Simon
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In the current era of parent-led grass roots initiatives a wide
spectrum of school types is cropping up from Free Schools to Academies and
beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time is ripe to ask: how can
school design attitudes evolve to meet these new challenges?</div>
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Simon Allford conveyed energy in his interrogation of the
problem at hand, calling for designers to reconsider the brief for
schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He argued that architects
should ignore overly specific briefs and instead conceive schools as part of
the city fabric, rather than allowing the design to be driven by a programme
that changes as often as educational policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Allford’s plea for ‘highly bespoke yet inherently adaptable
design’ cited the Uffizi Galleries in Florence as an example of a building
which goes beyond its brief to form lasting public space.</div>
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Most of the evening covered well publicised
past projects such as the <a href="http://www.fourthdoor.org/annular/?page_id=414">Kingsdale Secondary School Sports Hall</a> by drMM which,
whilst admirable for its creative use of ETFE and glulam structure, can hardly
be considered as an ‘emerging trend’ as it was completed ten years ago. </div>
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I left disappointed by the lack of emerging school design
philosophies shown, but motivated to continue the debate on the subject (those of
us who attended stayed behind for an animated discussion)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully others had a similar reaction and will be
inspired to join a more focused debate on design for the next generation of
schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overseas inspiration is easy to
come by - for example, the climate-sensitive and cost-effective <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/18/dps-kindergarten-school-by-khosla-associates/">DPS
Kindergarten School</a> in Bangalore, conceived by architects Kholsa Associates
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Terracotta
jaalis and colourful corrugated sheets provide playful shading and a nod towards
the vernacular architecture of the region, set within the rigorous framework of
a modular concrete typology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural
ventilation, light and local materials harmonise in this project, which came
top of the education category at the 2013 <a href="http://www.insidefestival.com/">Inside Festival</a> awards and is a
delight to read about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could such an
approach begin to answer the call for innovative ‘highly bespoke yet inherently adaptable design’ for schools and if so, what would the British equivalent be?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Monday the rising star Shadow Minister of Housing, Emma
Reynolds, enthusiastically briefed a full-house at <a href="http://www.nhbc.co.uk/NewsandComment/Name,53575,en.html">NHBC about emerging Labour Party plans </a>to deal with the housing crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She talked about
‘Build First’ to encourage SMEs to make up the numbers to 200,000 homes a year using
smaller public sector sites which they paid for later, hence Build First. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little definite beyond that as Sir Michael
Lyons’ Housing Commission is not due to report till later in the year and the
election isn’t till 2015. But she went some way to answer some of the questions
raised by James Meek’s excellent review of the recent past <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live">‘Where will we live?’</a>published in the London Review of Books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For Reynolds the issues are numbers, affordability and
quality, including size, none of which is helped by the Coalition’s ‘Help to
Buy’ programme supporting re-mortgaging and houses up to £600k, unaffordable to
most first time buyers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garden Cities
are part of the programme as trailed by the <a href="http://www.nhbc.co.uk/NewsandComment/Name,54023,en.html">Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls at the NHBC Annual Lunch</a> in November but the question is where?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She batted aside the idea that these would be
warmed-up eco-towns but declined to name any locations; the difficulties to be
overcome include the free market price of land and the difficulty many Local Authority planners now
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I asked her about this since the Coalition has abolished
Regional Planning, encouraged <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nimbyism in
the South-East through the National Planning Policy Framework and seen the Local
Authority planning community decimated by financial cuts; I suggested that, as
a result, planners were back to (battling the lawyers with) development control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reply to another question she talked about
the ‘Right to Grow’ (beyond the Authority’s boundaries) for towns like
Stevenage, Luton and Oxford and the ability to swap green belt land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is like the expansion of <a href="http://scambs.moderngov.co.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=55303">Cambridge redrawing the City boundaries</a>, following extensive community engagement.</span></div>
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confidently but I felt that her reliance on homes ‘being more attractive’ as a
means of winning over the nimbies was a tad optimistic!</span></div>
Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-60626498667682248962013-12-05T14:01:00.000+00:002013-12-05T15:42:57.714+00:00Sustainability Talk: Passivhaus - what's the hold up?<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week <a href="http://www.cullinanstudio.com/" target="_blank">Cullinan Studio</a> asked an expert panel to discuss Passivhaus for our monthly Sustainability
Talk. The main question of the night was - what's the hold up? Why has the UK not quite embraced the system as readily as our continental cousins? Our panel argued that digging a little deeper into the issue reveals there a number of misconceptions about <a href="http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/" target="_blank">Passivhaus</a> to be blamed for stalling its popularity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Architect <a href="http://www.bere.co.uk/" target="_blank">Justin Bere</a> refuted the common argument that
Passivhaus means a sentence to architectural banality. Bere suggested it's more
useful to see Passivhaus as a tool to ensure quality and comfort rather than a stringent aesthetic style. In the face of the extra costs associated with the system, he called upon some research his practice has been involved in, which demonstrates the capacity of Passivhaus to <a href="http://www.bere.co.uk/sites/default/files/research/PassivHaus%20buildings.%20Case%20study%20evidence%20for%20reduced%20whole%20life%20costs%20combined.pdf" target="_blank">reduce whole life costs</a>
(with the caveat of an economic context of low to middle interest rates).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also addressed by Bere were common misconceptions about <a href="http://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/page--ventilation-mvhr.html" target="_blank">MVHR</a> interfering with relative humidity. He cited performance feedback which showed MVHR to consistently enable
optimum relative humidity levels of 30-60%. As for the question of whether UK builders are up to
the challenges of building Passivhaus, Bere believes the architect<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can go some way to help. From ensuring the
detailing rigour starts at their drawings, to choosing specifications that harmonise with the system (for example specifying window fixing that required predrilled holes) and appointing an "airtightness champion" on-site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Will South, of Passivhaus specialist consultants <a href="http://www.cocreateconsulting.com/" target="_blank">Cocreate</a>, agreed, saying that the architect should be willing to teach the contractor. He also advocates Passivhaus courses for the whole team, including the client: the fact is that even well-designed Passivhaus buildings are overheating, so its as much about education as design. <span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> He believes that <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Building Control represents the minimum standard - this "bottom" isn't where we want to be: longevity and quality are more readily on offer with Passivhaus. In this way, Passivhaus is as much about quality assurance as it about comfort, of course through meticulous detailing. In response to the issue raised that the airtightness values required are excessively low, South conceeded this is a case of overdesign, but doing so to allow for the building to change and grow without adversely affecting the whole system.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ivan Christmas, Senior Development Manager at the London Borough of Camden, has been at the helm of what is currently the UK's largest residential Passivhaus project: <a href="http://www.chesterbalmore.com/" target="_blank">Chester Balmore</a>, in </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Highgate
New Town. The project only began to aim for Passivhaus certification at tender when contractors <a href="http://www.willmottdixongroup.co.uk/" target="_blank">Willmott Dixon</a> were brought on board, demonstrating that the system can be designed in at a later stage. Bear in mind this change did also mean a change in architect (from competition winners <a href="http://www.rickmather.com/practice" target="_blank">Rick Mather Architects</a> to specialists <a href="http://www.architype.co.uk/" target="_blank">Architype</a>) in order to achieve the redefined design goals. Both Christmas and Ben Shuster of Willmott Dixon pointed out the project's fanned bays and adherence to conservation constraints show that a real design dialogue has been allowed to take place - unaffected by Passivhaus requirements.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was particularly useful to have wisdom shared from the perspective of several members of the team that would be responsible for delivering a certified building - the architect, client, contractor and specialist consultant</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. As the evening devolved into Q&A, it was clear that although achieving the full certification may be a stretch, even with some deviation, Passivhaus is definitely a better baseline to leap from. The real hold up lies in practicing the balancing act of rigourous Passivhaus detailing and wider architectural design choices.</span>Sahiba Chadhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266921886700787054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-82480702771636239302013-11-28T17:10:00.001+00:002013-11-29T00:07:12.895+00:00AJ Footprint Live conference: The Green Rethink<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Tuesday Johnny Winter and I attended the inaugural AJ
Footprint Live conference, promisingly entitled <a href="http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/footprint-live/" target="_blank">‘The Green Rethink’</a>. Keynote
speakers <a href="http://www.terryfarrell.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sir Terry Farrell</a> and <a href="http://www.kenyeang.com/" target="_blank">Dr Ken Yeang</a> began each half by offering their vision of a
sustainable built environment. Farrell paired sustainability with ‘urbiculture’,
placing the city at the heart of sustainable development so long as it is developed holistically and diversely, particularly encouraging an
active and vibrant ground plane (citing Darwin’s ‘tangled bank’ and Jane
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yeang, a well-known purveyor of the literal
greening of the built environment, underlined we must “rethink our relationship
with nature”. He suggested that the next generation of green buildings must: be
better integrated with nature, function as a living system, repair wider
fragmented landscape and enlist natural processes for systems such as closed loop
water drainage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of the ideas and studies presented were already well
worn, and packed panels did mean several sessions were too short to fully
relate enough detailed information. For example The Technical Briefing panel crammed
in the upcoming Part L revisions, Soft Landings and the issue of closing the building
performance gap. Although this left almost no window in which to debate how this really
feeds back into improving good practice, an interesting provocation was made by Roderic
Bunn of<a href="https://www.bsria.co.uk/" target="_blank"> BSRIA</a>, in the suggestion that Part L should demand certain compliance
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tight schedule was, however, studded with moments of
inspiration. <a href="http://www.atelierten.com/" target="_blank">Patrick Bellew’s</a> list of top green innovations to keep an
eye out for was certainly compelling: electro-chromic glass, entrepreneurial energy storage, smarter
green facades and joined up systems on site (e.g. the smart use of waste for
power in <a href="http://www.atelierten.com/2012/projects/gardens-by-the-bay/">Gardens by the Bay</a>). </span></div>
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Homes, Better Homes’. Alison Brooks
hit the nail on the head by urging a renewed focus on the suburbs, using <a href="http://www.alisonbrooksarchitects.com/projects/newhall/97/" target="_blank">Newhall Be</a> as a case study. <a href="http://www.nickraynsford.org.uk/">Nick Raynsford MP</a> noted that although mass house builders have shown improvement in recent years, the only way to sustainably solve the housing crisis with the immediacy required is through increased public spending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other case studies worth picking out included <a href="http://www.architectesassocies.be/" target="_blank">Architectes Associés</a> work, which demonstrates the large scale potential of Passivhaus
with their office and mixed-use projects in Belgium. <a href="http://www.e-cloud9.com/">Cloud 9</a>'s Media ICT project in Barcelona,
effervescently presented by Enric Ruiz-Geli, has shown the great potential of “dealing
in particles” in building façade technology (case in point below: nitrogen mist
turning glass to translucent walls to prevent solar gain). The fact that these sorts of projects seem to thrive better on the continent suggests the UK planning system and construction industry must play some innovation catch-up!</span></div>
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Sahiba Chadhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266921886700787054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-84124976987331345032013-11-19T14:33:00.001+00:002013-11-19T14:33:37.014+00:00Happold Lecture Take 2<div class="p1">
Friday saw Robin Nicholson reprise his <a href="http://www.cic.org.uk/" target="_blank">CIC</a> Ted Happold Medal Lecture for Cullinan Studio and guests during a wine and cheese evening at Cullinans' canal-side office. Speeding through the last 25 years of the construction industry, Robin's lecture hinged on his experience of various landmark construction industry reports, taskforces and forums.<br />
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Throughout the talk, a common theme picked out by Robin was an increasing change of bias evident in each report, shifting towards a focus on the client and end user. This goes hand-in-hand with the more socially-driven agenda that has emerged at the forefront of sustainable practice.</div>
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For Robin, the 1994 <a href="http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Latham_Report" target="_blank">Latham Report</a> ('Constructing the Team') signalled the first time members of the construction industry created a "public interest manifesto", rather than a self-serving industry report. Four years later, the "industry-shaking" <a href="http://www.constructingexcellence.org.uk/pdf/rethinking%20construction/rethinking_construction_report.pdf" target="_blank">Egan Report</a> ('Rethinking Construction') championed the concept of demonstration projects in order to better assimilate lessons learnt throughout the construction process - another move in favour of client and user. As well as this, Robin described the Egan Report as a significant "early stumbling" into sustainability. How much these projects realistically impacted upon future good practice is up for debate, however they made clear the complexity of true change in the industry.<br />
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But Robin maintains the future should be bright. From the optimistic Paul Morrell notion that "design is free if there is a 10% building performance improvement", to the presence of think tanks such as
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- The <a href="http://www.carbontracker.org/" target="_blank">Carbon Tracker Initiative's</a> report "<a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publications/Policy/docs/PB-unburnable-carbon-2013-wasted-capital-stranded-assets.pdf" target="_blank">Unburnable Carbon 2013</a>" which few audience members had come across.<br />
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Sahiba Chadhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266921886700787054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-45307554423968446512013-11-17T08:08:00.000+00:002013-11-17T08:10:46.934+00:00Nairn's LondonJoining us for lunch last Friday, <a href="http://www.gilliandarley.com/">Gillian Darley</a> mentioned her new book about Ian Nairn - 'author of Nairn's London, the OUTRAGE series in the AR and more - you have probably never heard of him'. If you hadn't clearly others have as you can pay £264.94 on Amazon for a copy. I picked up mine for a pound in Hitchin in 1985 and found it an eye-opening prompt to take me exploring bits of London I might have missed. The overriding message which holds as true today as in 1966 is it doesn't matter what a building is like as long as it's good. Hence his inclusion of Owen Luder's newly completed Brutalist eyesore <a href="http://guppyslim.tumblr.com/post/32896642799/fuckyeahbrutalism-eros-house-catford-london">Eros House</a> in Catford - 'This most craggy and uncompromising of new London buildings turns out to be full of firm gentleness' - alongside <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+paragon+blackheath+history&rlz=1C1RNCN_enGB320&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=j3iIUrGDD9OqhAf0toGAAQ&ved=0CF4QsAQ&biw=1203&bih=901#es_sm=122&espv=210&q=the+paragon+blackheath&tbm=isch">The Paragon at Blackheath</a> - 'perfect urbanity meeting perfect rurality head-on' - alongside S.S.Teulon's <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parish_Priest-_the_work_of_the_Vicar_of_St_Mark's_Church,_Victoria_Docks,_Silvertown,_London,_England,_UK,_1944_D21016.jpg">St Mark's Silvertown</a> - 'an architectural imagination the size of Blake's - it must be kept'. It was and is now the home of <a href="http://www.bricklanemusichall.co.uk/">Brick Lane Music Hall</a>. <br />
Incidentally, the freehold for Eros House is up for sale for <a href="http://www.acorncommercial.co.uk/property-details/freehold-property-for-sale-in-london-1548/">£10,000</a>.Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521652736049381286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-19251872316921027562013-10-30T10:15:00.000+00:002013-10-30T10:39:20.644+00:00The Happold Lecture 2013Last night, Robin Nicholson became the ninth recipient of the prestigious Happold Medal.<br />
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The Medal was awarded jointly by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Happold Trust. Robin received the Medal after delivering the <a href="http://cic.org.uk/events/event.php?event=2013-10-29-happold-medal-lecture-2013">Happold Medal Lecture 2013</a>, entitled <i>'Collective responsibility for a sustainable industry'</i>.<br />
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The Happold Medal Lectures form an occasional series of groundbreaking lectures on a wide array of topics, with a focus on sustainable development. They are in memory of CIC's founding Chairman and visionary engineer, Sir Edmund (Ted) Happold.<br />
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The 2013 Medal was designed by Kenneth Grange.<br />
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<br />Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-70221266441296752232013-10-03T09:21:00.001+01:002013-10-03T10:51:17.947+01:00DIY Sedum<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A few years back when we were installing the huge sloping sedum
roof at the<a href="http://www.cullinanstudio.com/projects/idl.html"> International Digital Laboratory</a> at the University of Warwick, I thought
it was time to green the two modest flat roofs at home – 10 m<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">²</span>
over the rear extension and 4m<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">²</span> over the ground floor loo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The internet offered me two opportunities - a
supplier in a garden centre in Kentish Town, who when I visited had stopped the
previous week, and an on-line source that drove me so mad I gave up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So imagine my delight when, in the recent post-holiday
autumn lull, I found a whole host of sites offering DIY sedum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three days later a van from <a href="http://www.qlawns.co.uk/">Q Lawns of Thetford </a>arrived with 14m<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">²</span> of roofing and three hours after that it was laid – a separating
layer of polythene, a springy lightweight drainage layer, a heavy felt and then
the sedum itself more or less attached to another layer of felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sedum came in 1200mm squares so I was
grateful for my son Sol’s help carrying it up the stairs and laying it.</span><br />
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Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-55644774162737647102013-09-30T14:05:00.001+01:002013-10-03T09:01:50.891+01:00A day in Rio<br />
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invited to go to Rio de Janeiro for the day I parked my 'we must stop flying'
conscience and jumped at the opportunity, the only downside being that I would
have only arrived in São Paulo the previous day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picked up at 6.00 to drive to the delightful
inner city airport where you were treated like a human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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arrived the previous day in thick fog and drove into town through a dystopian
traffic- jammed nightmare; but today there was not a cloud in the sky; so
flying out over central São Paulo, it was difficult to believe the number of
tight packed towers that have sprung up like thistles do, everywhere, as far as
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contrast, flying into the fabulous inner city airport of Rio banking left so
you see the whole city centre before you shudder to a halt before tipping into
the water - I know it's been done before but so exciting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then off to Studio X in what's left of Praça
Tiradentes; that is 'Teeth-pulling' in memory of an 18th century Brazilian
dentist who led an insurrection against the Portuguese who cut his head cut off
and displayed it there. Dentistry is what the City Heritage team under
Washington Fajardo are trying to do to save the remaining facades even though
many of the buildings behind have collapsed and then encouraging rebuilding
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a collaboration between the City and Colombia University and run by a great
local team - two architects and one cultural producer - who have inserted a
steel and timber climbing frame of connected spaces to fit the original facades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a great cycling exhibition and
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the workings of Building for Life 12 to see to what extent they may offer clues
for those who want to ramp up the quality of architecture and urban design in
Brazil in general and to support the massive popular housing programme <a href="http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/introduction-to-the-brazilian-housing-program-minha-casa-minha-vida">My House MyLife</a> (this is a brief description from 2 years ago). There was a good discussion and I hope this will kick something Brazilian
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Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720546089063131508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-47622725873246784532013-09-24T17:18:00.001+01:002013-09-24T17:18:42.353+01:00Maggie's Culture CrawlAt 7.30pm on Friday 21st September an enthusiastic team from Cullinan Studio (plus friends) set off from Victoria Embankment Gardens on the <a href="https://culturecrawl.maggiescentres.org/">Maggie's Culture Crawl</a>. 15 miles and 6 and a half hours later, they were resting their weary feet at the top of 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) - although some of us arrived there a bit later.<br />
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The team were exhausted, aching and not looking forward to the journey home at two in the morning, but were happy in the knowledge the walk was done and that they had helped make a difference for those suffering from, or affected by cancer. Thank you to all who sponsored the team who have raised <b>£1,044</b> so far. You can still sponsor us at: <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/CullinanStudio">http://www.justgiving.com/CullinanStudio</a><br />
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Highlights of the walk included a spin on the London Eye;<br />
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the Durbar Court in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where a refreshing cup of tea and biscuits was served up by Fortnum and Mason;<br />
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<a href="http://www.maggiescentres.org/london/introduction">Maggie's West London</a>, which is always a welcome stop on the Maggie's night hikes;<br />
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the 'apple trees' en route were a welcome treat;<br />
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Team members: Amy, Andrew, Ashley, Helen, John, Laith, Lucy, Roddy, Sarah and Sanaa.<br />
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Having taken part in the event previously, we were proud to be taking part for a fourth time, especially in celebration of <a href="http://www.cullinanstudio.com/projects/maggies.html">Maggie's Newcastle</a> which we completed in May this year.</div>
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Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521652736049381286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-82914009005821151812013-09-06T17:10:00.000+01:002013-09-07T10:06:43.166+01:00Are international sporting events unsustainable?Robin Nicholson writes for Building Magazine:<br />
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"Holding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should make us question the carbon cost of sport.<br />
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The football season has begun again - although, being an Arsenal supporter, things didn't start well. While, as a season ticket holder, entering the lower tier of the stadium never fails to thrill, as an architect I love the way this 60,000-seater has been elegantly inserted into the tight Victorian urban fabric so it is almost invisible from the Holloway Road, with good public transport links. And it was built on time and on budget without any fuss.<br />
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Sustainability at Arsenal is more about finance and performance than carbon or energy and I don't lose much sleep about the relatively few fans who fly in from around the globe to watch the Gunners. But bells began to ring when FA chairman Greg Dyke recently challenged the viability of the summer 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<br />
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Arup will have brought all their brilliance to bear on the design of the five air-conditioned stadiums planned to allow the players and fans some comfort when the local temperature in July can exceed 50 degrees centigrade. Money is clearly not a problem in Qatar but with up to 70% of all energy delivered to air-conditioned buildings being used to power the air-con, how sustainable can such stadiums be? And how will the spaces between the buildings work so spectators, with or without tickets, can mill around in what for many will be unaccustomed heat?<br />
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Buildings are only part of the carbon footprint - the spectators have to get there too. I love my sport as much as anyone but I have long wondered about the carbon cost of flying to international sporting events, as we will go to enormous lengths to see Usain Bolt run or our teams play abroad. Many flew into London for the Olympics but how many more will be flying to the next World Cup - 2014 in Brazil, 2018 in Russia and 2022 in wherever. Just what will the carbon price of the 2022 World Cup be if Greg Dyke doesn't persuade Fifa to move it to another country?"Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-34464501160776460112013-07-12T14:59:00.002+01:002013-07-12T14:59:45.957+01:00Design Day: Activating the Canal Front<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketching out initial ideas following group discussion on the canal</td></tr>
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‘Design Day’ is an annually occurring in-house design
competition, where the whole office spends one day getting creative juices
flowing and bonding over model making and quick-fire sketching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year’s theme was to come up with ideas
to improve our new studio environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The day kicked off with members expressing an interest in a particular
area of the office by each showing a slide of thought-provoking concept images
to spark ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teams based on common
interests were agreed by the end of breakfast and a busy day ensued.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Models were sprouting up within hours of kick-off</td></tr>
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On ‘Team Canal’ I was joined by John Romer, Robin Nicholson
and Ed Robertson - a fusion of engineering knowledge, horticultural interests
and nimble model making fingers came together for a thoroughly enjoyable day of
thinking about ways to improve our guerrilla garden and create better canal-side
visibility for Cullinan Studio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The towpath garden today</td></tr>
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Since moving into our new office space, the studio has been
slowly ‘bewildering’ the neglected strip of land on the canal towpath in front
of our building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A concrete worktop
(salvaged from our old office) has been transformed into a new bench that has enjoyed
plenty of use during the recent sunny weather, both by members of the public
and the studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With some keen gardeners
amongst the studio crop, we have cleared away the weeds and begun to plant up
the strip (so far this includes tomatoes, runner beans and strawberries) with
varying degrees of success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
main problems is that low-level plants are getting trampled by passers-by, as our
slim 1m wide strip of earth lies at the same level as the pavement
surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overall result so far is a
vast improvement on how things were before, but our ambitions for the garden
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1:100 model showing overall planting scheme</td></tr>
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The team decided on an overall design strategy which would
embrace and celebrate the repetition and rigour of the existing industrial
façade and encourage the garden to expand vertically as well as horizontally.</div>
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On the horizontal, the first step would involve raising the
whole strip of garden by one railway sleeper, in order to discourage the
destruction of low level plants by passing bikes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large triangular planters would then be constructed
directly beneath the windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By raising
plants to just beneath windowsill level, a visual connection would be created with
the garden from inside the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
oblique angle on the cheeks of the triangular planters could also provide an
ideal place for some playful signage, putting the practice’s name where passing
towpath traffic can read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reclaimed
timber, railway sleepers and CNC milled plywood were discussed as possible
material choices.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1:50 model showing triangular planters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John built a 1:1 mock up of one of the planters</td></tr>
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For the vertical element of the design, studio architect-engineer
John Romer came up with a cable system which would attach to the structural
steel plates on the building façade, acting as a trellis for creepers to grow
further up the face of the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
system would incorporate hanging space for temporary banners to advertise special
events going on in the office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potentially,
a few bird boxes and bee hotels could also be hung at high level to encourage
local wildlife.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Concept model of the connection detail for the trellis cables</td></tr>
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The principal idea on the greenery front was to create a
productive and sensory garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
south-facing canal elevation can get very hot and dry during the summer months,
so plants such as grapes, lavender and figs were proposed as they like these
conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also included in the
planting scheme were tea plants (so that we can grow our own for studio tea
time), fresh herbs (to season Friday lunches with), a fig tree (fresh figs for
lunch!) and scented plants such as Jasmine to share the sweet perfume of guerrilla
gardening with passing cyclists, dogs and canal dwellers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying some lemon verbena tea which we propose to grow in the garden</td></tr>
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Helen Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01906095847187489493noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-5699424025036637272013-07-04T07:38:00.002+01:002013-07-04T07:38:20.020+01:00Employee Ownership Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cullinan Studio is proud to celebrate employee ownership alongside other staff-led businesses across the UK as part of the first annual <a href="http://www.eoday.co.uk/">Employee Ownership Day</a> on Thursday 4th July. A series of events and activities are taking place across the UK and a national conference is being held in London to raise awareness of employee ownership as an economically strong and balanced business model responsible for increased productivity, employee health and well-being, and innovation.<br />
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Our founder, Ted Cullinan, established us as a co-operative architectural practice in 1965. We have adopted and developed a culture of social responsibility and shared value as an integral part of our business, which is the creation of beautiful and useful buildings. The direction of the practice, people's responsibilities and share of the income are by agreement with the collective membership. Age and experience demand that both responsibilities and rewards are not equal but rewards are confined so that no member earns more than three times any other.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Cullinan Studio (formerly Edward Cullinan Architects) in 1977</span></div>
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We aim to support other professionals who wish to practice in a co-operative way in what can be a difficult process, changing from traditional partnership to shared ownership; we have offered our experience to a wide range of practices from small groups to larger practices.<br />
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Employee Ownership Association CEO Iain Hasdell said:<i> "Companies such as Cullinan Studio are great examples of the success and engagement that can be achieved in an employee owned environment. I am delighted to work on their behalf to celebrate Employee Ownership Day, and make it easier for other UK companies to follow their lead into employee ownership. And to have their support for our target of 10% of UK GDP to be generated by employee owned business by 2020."</i><br />
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Benefits of employee ownership proven in EOA research include increased employee health and well-being, increased productivity and innovation and:<br />
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<li>UK employee owned companies have a turnover of around 3% of GDP (over £30 billion) pa.</li>
<li>There has been a 10% increase in the number of companies converting to employee ownership.</li>
<li>Employee-owners have higher levels of job satisfaction, feel a greater sense of achievement and job security and are more likely to recommend their workplace than employees in non-employee owned businesses.</li>
<li>Employee owned businesses operate in a range of sectors including healthcare, social care, education, transport, manufacturing, retail and professional services.</li>
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Cullinan Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218849981945606835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523024238412260733.post-11232485291361742272013-06-14T12:49:00.000+01:002013-06-14T12:49:26.034+01:00Maggie's Opening
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.cullinanstudio.com/projects/maggies.html">Maggie’s Newcastle</a> opened on 16<sup>th</sup> May 2013 on a
wonderful sunny day which saw the building fully inhabited for the first time.
The kitchen was packed to the concrete down stand beams, with project
architect, project manager and lighting designer perched on the staircase and
others spilling into the courtyard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a
view<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the speakers Charles Jencks,
Sarah Brown,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ted Cullinan and Lorna
Moran and to listen to bassist Graeme Danby’s wooing of the crowd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Working with <a href="http://www.maggiescentres.org/home.html">Maggie’s</a> to create the Maggie’s Newcastle has
been a tremendous experience and a joy to work with such a committed client. In
the month since the opening an unprecedented 1000 people have visited the
centre, including a larger proportion of men than at other centres which was
one of the key aspirations for this scheme.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The centre sits within a continuum of buildings by our
office. The radical transformation of the hospital grounds into a tranquil courtyard
exemplifies our interest in place making and the celebration of living close to
nature. The centre is sited and arranged to maximise the sun’s winter heating
potential, to collect and store its energy and regulate temperature with the
mass of exposed concrete. The landscaped mounds provide shelter to the north
and quietly delineate the warm courtyard to the south.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most importantly, our buildings blossom through use and it
was wonderful to see the varied spaces of Maggie’s Newcastle being activated
for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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