Fitzpatrick were keen to demonstrate their approach to social environmental responsibility, Fitzpatrick determined that their new building would be required to achieve an Excellent BREEAM rating.
The design has produced a cultural change in the company's day-to-day working practices through the creation of an environment that encourages greater interaction between staff. The building provides successful integration of design, sustainability and energy performance.
Award winning design for a flagship store...
This awkward, triangular site required creative thinking to achieve a commercial building backing onto a residential estate. Parking at ground floor with the sales floor elevated to the height of the A3 flyover inspired the creation of a SuperShopfront™ containing the travellators and lifts to transport customers.
A residential mews includes 35% affordable housing and forms a buffer between the mix of uses.
Key to IKEA’s success is the creation of an efficient use of space, which clearly separates the store, its circulation and customer car parking. The building provides a link between the existing town centre and proposed harbour regeneration, by allowing a major pedestrian route to cross the site. Delivered within a twelve month construction programme the store has already come to symbolise the city’s redevelopment ambition to make Southampton city the major retail destination in the south of England.
We took the client's existing planning consent and revisited the design. A new single stair core and introduction of compact 'Super-loos' optimise the floorspace at each level.
Externally the use of limestone and bronze façade materials will respond to the adjoining listed Baltic Exchange whilst the internal design will deliver a contemporary high specification office and achieve a BREEAM Very Good rating within the constraints of the building envelope.
Black took a poorly insulated, unmodernised, 1960s deckhouse and completely refurbished it to achieve a highly sustainable modern home. The existing building was stripped back to its original concrete encased steel and timer frame which was then
super-insulated, in excess of current building regulations requirements. The house now provides renewable electricity and hot water with excess power exported to the grid.
Black won a limited competition for the redevelopment of an existing Builders Merchants site located on a prominent junction adjacent to Harrow town centre.
A large residential scheme is elevated onto a landscaped podium above a Morrisons food store and three levels of car parking. This innovative
multi-level, sustainable, mixed-use scheme represents a radical shift in the design of town centre retail development and will ensure activity and animation throughout the day and into the evening.
CAFOD’s Headquarters has been designed as an exemplar of sustainable workplace design. Radical innovation was required to fit within budget and adhere to their ‘live simply’ philosophy.
Improving communication and social interaction encouraged information sharing, whilst creating
community and a ‘heart’ for the building. The building acheives an Excellent BREEAM rating through
integration of building technologies and techniques.
We design buildings through an open and anaytical process. Throughout the process our client is fully
versed in the evolving design. When we reach a solution we publish an illustrated, detailed, report
of the complete process.
Our skills as problem solvers is suited to the
creative and technical complexities of delivering
Sustainable, Urban Architecture.
It is not about big ideas; it’s about the right ideas.
