Architecture | Higher education » Higher Education, Science and Research about Creating Places for People

Higher Education, Science & Research Source: http://www.doksinet 1 Architecture Design Engineering Urbanism Landscape Sustainability Lighting Acoustics 2 Source: http://www.doksinet Creating Places for People BDP designs and creates inspiring places for people. With over 800 architects, engineers, designers and masterplanners, we work from studios throughout the UK, Ireland, the Middle East, India and China. Founded in 1961, BDP is now one of the best known interdisciplinary practices in the world and has won over 750 awards for design quality. Our ethos places the user at the heart of the design process to create the very best learning and research environments: places and spaces that inspire and nurture the people who use them. It is this ethos that gives us a natural affinity with clients in the higher education, science and research sectors, where the innovation and quality that they seek in new projects is bound so closely to the individual quality of their people,

processes and sense of place. Working closely with client teams to interpret and articulate compelling new visions is our motivation as designers. The work showcased here covers a broad spectrum of our recent projects, arranged in four key areas: • Universities and Colleges – student-centred learning environments that promote interaction and address a range of needs from general teaching ‘hubs’ through to specialist faculty buildings; • Masterplans – holistic, long term and sustainable visions for universities, which range from green field developments through to phased interventions in congested urban campuses; • Creative Adaptation – carefully crafted insertions in existing environments, from listed structures to more recent post-war buildings, which provide a new lease of life for key built assets; • Science and Research – projects that capitalise on our experience of working across the academic, commercial and healthcare sectors to produce innovative

and striking new buildings where high-tech considerations never eclipse the fundamental driver to create effective and enjoyable team settings. The user-centred thread in our work is closely allied to three other core themes: 3 Working with BDP was fantastic. Their ability to translate our aspirations, present options, and help us get the best result was second to none.” To be energy creative, using natural and technological approaches Les Watson, Pro-Vice Chancellor, To design for long term value, thinking carefully and creatively about Glasgow Caledonian University how environments will be used over time. for the use and reuse of energy and resources; To cross-fertilise our knowledge from cultures, maximising the advantages of being international, interdisciplinary and multisector; and 4 Source: http://www.doksinet 01 Universities and Colleges 5 University of York, Heslington East Campus 6 Source: http://www.doksinet University of South Wales NEWPORT, WALES, UK

The city campus brings together business, design, media and technology under one roof to and learning. The new campus This is what I see as 21st century higher education.” reinvigorates the city’s waterfront, Jane Hutt, the Minister for Education and Lifelong encouraging economic growth in Learning, Welsh Assembly Government encourage interdisciplinary research the region. 7 RIBA Award, Civic Trust Award, Mix Interiors Award - Public Sector Interiors Project of the Year 8 Source: http://www.doksinet The building will be a hub for the development and exchange of knowledge, partnership and collaboration and social change and inclusion.” Graham Rogers, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of South Wales 9 10 Source: http://www.doksinet University of York HESLINGTON EAST CAMPUS, YORK, UK BDP is able to enthuse, they immediately envisage what you want, they respond extremely well to what you’re trying to achieve and their illustrations are absolutely superb.”

Elizabeth Heaps, Pro Vice Chancellor, University of York 11 12 Source: http://www.doksinet The Ron Cooke Hub The hub is the landmark gateway to the new Heslington East Campus. Incorporating a 220 seat lecture theatre, flexible teaching with study pods, offices and a café set around a grand hall with views to the lake, it encourages interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer between academics and external business. 13 14 Source: http://www.doksinet The Theatre Film and Television Building is a professional standard facility housing two fully equipped TV studios, a 150 seat screening room, a flexible black box theatre space and a 200 seat scenic stage theatre with full backstage facilities. 15 16 Source: http://www.doksinet Faculty of Education The best benchmark building for the university, costing £200 per m2 less than similar Oxbridge faculties.” Russell Pope, Estates Management & Building Services, University of Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

CAMBRIDGE, UK 17 18 Source: http://www.doksinet An internal street accommodating a range of spaces for learning - both active and contemplative - connects the structured brick house for learning and the sinuous wooden library, wrapped around the mature garden. Winner of the David Urwin Award for the most sustainable new building in the city of Cambridge. 19 20 Source: http://www.doksinet Robert Gordon University ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, UK 21 Set in a 120 acre mature landscape, schools of art, architecture, engineering, computing, life sciences and pharmacy are articulated as two linear teaching blocks grouped around an internal street and courtyard, encouraging social interaction between the academic schools. 22 Source: http://www.doksinet A reinterpretation of the Norfolk timber shed vernacular showcases performing, digital and traditional art and design over three floors, maximising views to the activities within and enjoying views out to the garden. Civic Trust Award A

home for the Creative Arts, bringing together students from many disciplines to work collaboratively within a professional space.” Ray Goodman, Programme Manager City College Norwich City College Norwich CREATIVE ARTS HUB, NORWICH, UK 23 24 Source: http://www.doksinet Cardiff & Vale College COMMUNITY CAMPUS, CARDIFF, UK This impressive new building will become a focal point for learners, employers and communities, helping to drive forward economic activity within the region.” Leighton Andrews, Minister for Education and Skills, Welsh Assembly Government Not just a college building, but a valuable new facility for the local community and regenerator for the area. Open and welcoming faculty clusters are set around a public route through the heart of the distinctive wedge shape building which houses a diverse range of world class facilities, connecting to south-facing terraces with views towards Cardiff Bay. 25 26 Source: http://www.doksinet Fusion Building

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, BOURNEMOUTH, UK This new beacon of learning rejuvenates the heart of the Bournemouth University Talbot Campus, fostering a spirit of collaboration across learning, research and practice. 27 28 Source: http://www.doksinet Nanjing Medical University JIANGSU, CHINA This highly sustainable new medical building integrates teaching and research with museum and conference facilities connected via a series of stacked terraces beneath a daylit atrium on this landscaped lakeside campus. 29 30 Source: http://www.doksinet 31 32 Source: http://www.doksinet Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University World-class teaching, laboratory, research and training facilities are arranged around the central heartspace of a landscaped circular campus. MASTERPLAN AND BUSINESS SCHOOL, SUZHOU, CHINA 33 34 Source: http://www.doksinet 02 Masterplans 35 SABHA Masterplan, Libya 36 Source: http://www.doksinet University of York HESLINGTON EAST CAMPUS, YORK, UK BDP has

responded and contributed to the university’s brief for a worldclass development in keeping with our academic status and aspirations, on a green field site. They have adopted and carried forward the values and design principles that are important to us.” Elizabeth Heaps, Pro Vice Chancellor A sustainable masterplan places academic buildings and student housing within a landscaped lakeside campus to create a new living and learning community. RIBA Award 37 38 Source: http://www.doksinet University of Limerick A sustainable masterplan designed around the unique microclimate of western Ireland integrates living, learning and research on each bank of the River Shannon joined together by a pedestrian living bridge. LIMERICK, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 39 40 Source: http://www.doksinet Fallowfield Campus Masterplan A vibrant student village, a central student hub, sports and hospitality are all unified by a healthy living landscape to form a flagship new campus for student living

and wellbeing. UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK 41 42 Source: http://www.doksinet The campus masterplan creates a legible, coherent, high quality pedestrian friendly environment, improves connections and Manchester Metropolitan University MANCHESTER, UK permeability and addresses the quality, sustainability and functionality of the 1960s legacy estate to form a sense of place and identify potential future building projects. 43 44 Source: http://www.doksinet Indian Institute of Technology JODHPUR, INDIA Located in a desert environment, this Smart Intelligent Eco Campus, designed as a sustainable oasis in which to live and work is protected by a large earthen bund that gently slopes to merge with the buildings and the landscape. 45 46 Source: http://www.doksinet Indian Institute of Technology MANDI, INDIA Located in forested hills in the western Himalayas, the 230-hectare campus responds to the microclimate and topography of the steep site. Building typologies echo the

traditional style of Himalayan vernacular and strive towards creating a new architecture for the region. 47 48 Source: http://www.doksinet Libyan Universities Ten new universities, individually designed around their climatic regional settings of desert, mountain and coast, to accommodate 28,000 students, providing international standard education opportunities. 49 50 Source: http://www.doksinet 03 Creative Adaptation 51 Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Business School 52 Source: http://www.doksinet Anglia Ruskin University LORD ASHCROFT BUSINESS SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, UK 53 54 Source: http://www.doksinet I can only say again how pleased I am with it and what a stunning piece of architecture it is - not only for the facilities it brings but for the architectural concept.” A flexible, sustainable masterplan integrates new and existing buildings in the challenging context of a congested campus. A new central cloister wraps around lecture pods crowned with roof

terraces. Professor Mike Thorne, Vice Chancellor, Anglia Ruskin University 55 56 Source: http://www.doksinet Edinburgh Napier University State-of-the-art business school facilities are artfully integrated with existing listed Victorian buildings through the creation of an atrium space crowned with a titanium ‘egg’ which houses a 200 seat lecture theatre with direct views to Edinburgh Castle. BUSINESS SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, UK This building will inspire learners for years to come.” 57 Professor Michael Thorne, Napier University 58 Source: http://www.doksinet The Saltire Centre GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND, UK 59 60 Source: http://www.doksinet This stunning building will revolutionise the university’s approach to learning.” Magnus Magnusson, Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University Inclusive, inviting, sociable, accessible - a building where you want to be, the Saltire Centre defines the latest trends at the cutting edge of contemporary

educational thinking through a range of stimulating learning environments from the ‘monastic’ to the ‘mall.’ RIBA Award Civic Trust Commendation Lighting Design Award 61 62 Source: http://www.doksinet King’s College STRAND CAMPUS, LONDON, UK 63 64 Source: http://www.doksinet With extraordinary vision and empathy the south range has been restored to its former glory.” Professor Rick Trainor, Principal, King’s College A conservation led programme of adaptation to the 1830s Grade I listed King’s Building re-establishes new social facilities, lecture theatre, teaching space and academic offices as the social heart of the Strand Campus. Winner of HEFCE Green Gown Award for Sustainable Construction 65 66 Source: http://www.doksinet Phased refurbishment of the Grade II* listed building that sympathetically incorporates the facilities of a contemporary academic library while restoring the essence of Holden’s original design. 67 Senate House UNIVERSITY OF

LONDON, LONDON, UK 68 Source: http://www.doksinet Royal College of Music LONDON, UK The creative adaptation and extension of the college’s Grade II listed estate, at the very heart of Kensington’s cultural quarter, provides significant new performance, teaching and social facilities to secure the international status of the conservatoire. 69 70 Source: http://www.doksinet 04 Science & Research 71 Physics of Medicine, University of Cambridge 72 Source: http://www.doksinet Physics of Medicine UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK 73 The world famous Cavendish Laboratories are replaced by this new landmark gateway to the West Cambridge Campus. Interdisciplinary laboratory and research space foster innovation through collaboration. BDP was especially good in the way it continually involved users in a dialogue, from very early design discussions to more complete proposals.” David Peet, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge 74 Source:

http://www.doksinet The Nanoscience Centre UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK Specialist and general laboratories and a social pod overlook a researchers’ garden, uniting science with humanity. A peach of a building.” Peter Taylor, Project Manager, University of Cambridge 75 76 Source: http://www.doksinet The Maxwell Centre UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK Aimed at promoting interaction with industry to develop blue-sky research programmes in the physical sciences, this research laboratory develops our Lab Hotel concept. This creates flexible laboratory space under the interactive meeting and write-up zone which nestles beneath the distinctive gently curving roof. 77 78 Source: http://www.doksinet Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK A humane place for scientists and students to work as they investigate ways of making our lives better in the world-class research laboratories. Bringing together the

widest range of scientific techniques under one roof, the entire building is designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration at every opportunity. 79 80 Source: http://www.doksinet Technology Innovation Centre UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, SCOTLAND, UK 81 82 Source: http://www.doksinet The Technology and Innovation Centre creates a ring of flexible accommodation set around a central atrium space, bringing together over 1000 leading researchers, knowledge transfer specialists and industry partners to change the way that industry and the university engage. 83 84 Source: http://www.doksinet The first of five centres promoting optimised design solutions for laboratory templates and processing halls for the manufacture of blood products, incorporating modular open plan analytical laboratories, undergraduate teaching laboratories and cleanrooms for stem cell research. National Blood Service BRISTOL, UK 85 86 Source: http://www.doksinet A fine, contemporary building was

delivered ahead of programme and within budget, and our effectiveness, productivity and sense of identity have all been enhanced.” John Melville, General Manager, Roche Products Ltd Roche Pharmaceutical HQ WELWYN GARDEN CITY, UK A new headquarters building and Clinical Pharmacology Unit incorporating laboratories for the testing, monitoring and analysing of samples and a production area for the storage, preparation and packing of products for this leading pharmaceutical company. 87 British Council for Offices Award ‘Best of the Best’ RICS Award, Wood Award 88 Source: http://www.doksinet Lifescan Scotland INVERNESS, SCOTLAND, UK Expansion of existing Bio Medical Research and Development and manufacturing facility, accommodating additional cleanroom manufacturing space, offices and warehousing. 89 90 Source: http://www.doksinet Wanhua Research and Development Centre SHANGHAI, CHINA An international research and development centre incorporating state-of-the-art

facilities for Wanhua’s pioneering work in manufacturing polyurethanes. The design creates three elements which showcase their functions; scientific labs, service apartments for visiting specialists and scientists, staff offices, conference amenities and auxiliary spaces, all integrated by a landscaped plaza to promote relaxation and wellbeing. 91 92 Source: http://www.doksinet Glasgow Science Centre SCOTLAND, UK 93 This iconic building bridges the gap between scientific knowledge, present technology and future trends whilst contributing to the urban regeneration of the waterfront. RIBA Award, Civic Trust Commendation, Good Britain Guide - Britain’s Top Attraction 94 Source: http://www.doksinet CONTACT Benedict Zucchi Head of Education Sector Director of Architecture 020 7812 8033 benedict.zucchi@bdpcom PHOTOGRAPHERS David Barbour Sanna Fisher-Payne Roland Halbe Martine Hamilton Knight Keith Hunter Kilian O’Sullivan cover image: Physics of Medicine, University of

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