Design Engine Architects Ltd

AUB Design Studios And Workshops

AUB DESIGN STUDIOS AND WORKSHOPS

Design Engine Architects

AUB Design Studios And Workshops

ARCHITECTS
Design Engine Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jim Stephenson

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Selway Joyce

CATEGORY
Other Facilities

AREA
3000.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2016

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
AKS Ward

ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT
Arup

M&E CONSULTANT
AVUS Consulting

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
HED

PROJECT MANAGER
Selway Joyce

LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Michael Grubb

FIRE ENGINEER
LFA

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Morgan Sindall

TOTAL COST
£6,400,000

LOCATION
Wallisdown, Poole BH12 5HH, United Kingdom

MANUFACTURERS
Desso Hospitality Carpets, Schüco, WPL UK

AUB Design Studios And Workshops

Text description provided by architect.

The AUB Design Workshops & Studios Conversions consist of the transformation of two former on-campus halls of residence, originally constructed in 2001, into modern studio and teaching space for Arts University Bournemouth’s internationally renowned higher education courses.

The success of the institution, and the wider changing demands of higher education, instigated a reappraisal of the Halls’ use as part of Design Engine’s 2009 vision for the future masterplan for the University.

AUB Design Studios And Workshops
AUB Design Studios And Workshops

The outline brief was to facilitate the wider transformation of the campus with the re-use of buildings whose original function had become redundant, but whose structure and envelope remained largely sound.

Collaboratively, the design team undertook a programme analysis that demonstrated how through the retention of the existing buildings the University could both achieve delivery of new teaching space each year, and at significant saving against that of a new building.

AUB Design Studios And Workshops
AUB Design Studios And Workshops

The university’s Model-Making, Performance Make-Up and preparation for Higher Education departments were identified as having commonality in their specialised and technical requirements, and by sharing facilities could reduce unnecessary duplication.

Design Engine led a series of stakeholder design forums, helping formulate a brief for their needs within the constraints of working with an existing building.

AUB Design Studios And Workshops
AUB Design Studios And Workshops

Heavyweight, highly-serviced mechanised modelling and prosthetic workshops are concentrated on the ground floor. This enables a structural strategy for a new steel frame to be inserted with the outer masonry skin, thus allowing the removal of cellular loadbearing partitions to create large open plan studios, which in turn facilitate the proposed natural ventilation strategies.

A series of ground floor extensions for 3D printing spill out onto re-landscaped courtyards.

AUB Design Studios And Workshops
© Jim Stephenson
AUB Design Studios And Workshops
© Jim Stephenson
AUB Design Studios And Workshops
© Jim Stephenson

These extensions act as shop windows advertising the output for the courses; fulfilling a desire to showcase work and continue the cross-fertilisation of ideas across the wider campus.

The buildings are capped by a series of saw-tooth north-facing roof lights atop a raised roof podium providing even natural daylighting to new drawing studios for model-making, illustration and fashion design students.

Clad in telemagenta pink, they point to a concept of feature surfaces and planes that highlight new interventions into the existing fabric.

AUB Design Studios And Workshops
© Jim Stephenson
AUB Design Studios And Workshops
© Jim Stephenson
AUB Design Studios And Workshops

The transformation of the building is completed with a perforated aluminium veil over the existing building at first and second floor. A pattern of two sized circular apertures is formed into a randomised arrangment that extends across the upper façades. Working within the grids of both the former window arrangements and new steel structure, the 50% overall free area pattern allows continued venting whilst regulating excessive solar gain.

Delivered on programme, the project has been a huge success for the University, allowing it to build on the success of its oversubscribed creative courses and facilitating a wider strategic programme of campus renewal.

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