tom wakeman design portfolio

T O M WA K E M A N

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S elec t ion of Works

About me

I am trained in the field of Architecture and design, currently holding a BSc in Architecture, and completing my MArch at Cardiff University

My most recent experience includes working with an award-winning Architectural firm, Vicente Burin Architects, in Fairfield Connecticut, USA as a design intern

Previously, I have worked with a prestigious property development firm, Portfolio Homes as a design coordinator, as well as getting my hands dirty at a local construction firm, both based in my hometown of Sevenoaks, Kent, UK

Particular interests and research areas include: Architecture and interior design, graphics & media, lifestyle & photography and industrial design

I love working on screen as much as I love working with my hands, for me, my biggest joy in life is getting to work, picking up tools and getting stuck in with a project

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SELECTION OF WORKS

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PROGRAMME EXHIB IT IONS

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THOMAS WAKEMANCARDIFF MULTIFAITH RETREAT CENTER

Design and Access Statement

Proposal: On-Campus retreat centre: a multi-use space to accommodate for gatherings, pastoral care, multifaith activities, contemplation and reading. The centre it so sit alongside other university accommodation, providing an unparalleled environment with out-of-hours access to cater for the needs of a multinational and multifaith student and staff community, as well as providing connections with the greater Cardiff community. The building must accommodate for a range of different activities which will vary in scale and profile, from large gathering space for religious ceremony, performances and open-day events to individual cellular spaces for private prayer and reflection, also communal facilities spaces for receptions, classes such as yoga and meditation and refreshments. The building will therefore need to be highly versatile and able to adapt to the inherent range of environmental, practical and social requirements that come with the different activities occurring in these spaces. With a revised budget of 3 Million and a total permitted floor plan of 1000m2, the project provides scope for a design of substantial quality.

(A) Main Gated Entrance

Site Entrance through arched gateway

Site Proposal: Key Spaces and Aerial InformationColonnade of arches: to become internal coffee house boothsMain Entrance archway with french doors access to addition above

Established tree periphery

31382

26910

3189

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8830

9234

9400

25840

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34031

51770

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North

Aberdare Hall

School of Music

Floor 0 Music Library& dorms

library and dormentrance

Commercial KitchensBasement accessand oil tank

Queen AnneSquare Corbett Road

Column Terrace

Parking Lot

Parking lot andturning

entrance

entrance

formal entrance

Girls Dorm entrance

Substation

Construction traffic

vehicular access

ramp to parkinglot

footpath

lawns

footpath

offices

patio

archway

arched connecting'bridge'

Residential homes and yards

garages

3307

8370

boundary wall

boundarywall

implied facadeboundary

demolished60's block

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Existing Site Conditions, Access and Development Phases

Norwich Cathedral Refectory, Hopkins Architects

Birch ply used as interior wall material: individual prayer roomsRead-Nest, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekte

Zen-inspired couryard rock garden enclosed by inward-facing glazingWater Cherry House, Kengo Kuma Architects

Entrance: superhuman quality: spine stone wall, matching foundation, full height doorsWhitelee Windfarm, Hypostyle Architects & House Roces, Govaert & Vanhoutte

Simple, exposed rafters & steel columns: connecting walkwayViking Long House, Ireland, Jane D Burnside Architects

Raw, understated quality: natural materials, polished concrete: meditation & worshipWerkhaus, tka - Thomas Krger

Upper floor exposed wood rafters and light quality: intimate space for worshipMilitary building, Bureau SLA

0 Ground Floor & Landscaping Level 1:100 829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total

Electric light and power. Alarms.95,000

Electrics. Lift. Alarms, data cables, audio/visual195,447

Electrics, Lift. Alarms, CCTV, PA, data cables, BMS, emergency lights132,970

150,000Electrical, lifts, e.t.c.

unknown: special acoustic considerations

8% (124,456)unknown10% (56,000): costing provides for standard framed, drylined partitions. Contingency may include extra acoustic insulation considerations for areas requiring special sound proofing

Internal walls (acoustic considerations included)

Red cedar dado walls with block above; cedar boarding, Glasroc with render and Kalwall curtain walling. Curved and flat Glulam roof with metal cladding; flat concrete with sedum. Aluminium windows and doors, medium sustainability credentials359,707

Facing brick, render, curtain walling. Plastic clad timber pitched roof; glazing. Double glazed aluminium windows, poor sustainability credentials223,860

Black standing seam metal cladding, low surface area (sandwiched between existing buildings). Low maintenance, medium sustainability credentials~157,500

Cheap, economical cladding material: high environmental performance, low maintenance costs, large surface area cladding (no direct sunlight), high performance glazing, frameless doors/windows, sedum and glazed roof on timber/steel frame, high sustainability credentials250,000

Cladding (performance/sustainable credentials)

Paving, timber deck, brick retaining wall, timber fencing, landscaping, services, drainage and alterations to existing 285,000

Extensive hard landscaping: paving, retaining walls, metal railings, services, drainage, site lighting, cycle shelter, demolition of existing buildings 148,000

Extensive excavation/site works, minimal landscaping (some hard landscaping)299,000

Extensive soft landscaping, paving, decking/walkways, car park levelling/reinstatement, wall demolition and bike storage/lighting, demolition of existing building and asbestos removal (demolition material reused on site for carparklevelling400,000

Groundworks/landscaping/ecology

Gas heating, 89,500Underfloor Heating, gas boiler secondary ventilation, 126,570

Heat Pump, Gas DHW boiler, Radiant Underfloor Heat, secondary ventilation, 199,000

Heat Pump, Thermal store, MVHR, ducted delivery200,000

HVAC system

Henley College(Services/environmental 13% overall build cost excluding eco cladding/roof design)1019m2

Total: 1,508373

St Andrews Church, Devon(Services/environmental 25% overall build cost excluding eco cladding/roof design)861m2

Total: 1,555710

Greyfriars Community Centre, Edinburgh(Services/environmental 20% overall build cost excluding eco cladding/roof design)750m2

Total: 1,511026

Build cost estimation: Multifaith Centre Proposal(Services/environmental 23% overall build cost-excluding eco cladding/roof design)1000m2

Total: 2,679550

829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550

Environmental and Services Cost Breakdown: Precedent Estimates

829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550

829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550


Preliminary Cost EstimateREVISED Cost Estimate

Services, mechanical & sustainable products (including frame & external walls) reflected as 50% total build cost

1000m2

Heat pump, Thermal store, MVHR, associated 280,000Soft landscaping, sunken garden, as-sociated trees and planting, decking/patio, bike storage, existing demoli-tion/levelling, asbestos removal(major site works & basement excavation included in substructure estimates)350,000

Sustainable products and systems:Cedar shingle cladding & roof; 34kW PV array; low-grade UK spruce box frame with SIP system, high perfor-mance frameless doors/curtain wall glazing, small % southern exposure to upper storeys, minimising solar gain, high sustainability & high returns600,000

Simple drylined/birch ply-faced partitions, with extra for acoustic treatment. Birch-faced SIP panels to form interior surface of external walls54000Electrical, mech, lifts, data, CCTV, alarms, BMS, audio, access, theatre435,000

1,800000 55%

Total 3,300000 (for review)

16721,704,4611960168794520911568445Tender Price Update

100%~28002,758,750100%1,4801,508,373100%1,8061,555,710

100%2,014 1,511,026 Total Contract sum

--3%48 49,750 0 0 0 0 9 Design Fees

100%27582,758,75097%1,431 1,458,623100%1,806 1,555,710

100%2,014 1,511,026 Total (less Design Fees)

9%250250,0000 0 4%64 55,475 7%150 112,933 8 Contingencies

10%280280,00017%248 253,378 8%150 129,390 10%210 157,917 7 Preliminaries

20%550550,00019%279 285,051 10%172 148,872 20%398 299,066 6 External Works

20%530530,00013%195 199,332 25%452 389,345 20%399 299,793 5 Services

2%3030,0001%0 0 2%27 23,723 1%20 15,341 4 Fittings and Furnishings

5%150150,5006%94 96,102 7%124 106,769 6%113 84,888 3 Finishes

30%850850,00035%518 528,517 39%699 602,335 31%631 473,283 2 Superstructure

4%120120,2506%94 96,243 6%115 99,801 4%90 67,805 1 Substructure

%Costper m2

Total cost%Costper m2



Total cost

Sketch Design Proposal(Services/environmental 23% overall build cost-excluding eco cladding/roof design)1000m2

Total: 2,679550


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


100%~28002,758,750100%1,4801,508,373100%1,8061,555,710


--3%48 49,750 0 0 0 0 9 Design Fees

100%27582,758,75097%1,431 1,458,623100%1,806 1,555,710


9%250250,0000 0 4%64 55,475 7%150 112,933 8 Contingencies

10%280280,00017%248 253,378 8%150 129,390 10%210 157,917 7 Preliminaries

20%550550,00019%279 285,051 10%172 148,872 20%398 299,066 6 External Works

20%530530,00013%195 199,332 25%452 389,345 20%399 299,793 5 Services


5%150150,5006%94 96,102 7%124 106,769 6%113 84,888 3 Finishes

30%850850,00035%518 528,517 39%699 602,335 31%631 473,283 2 Superstructure

4%120120,2506%94 96,243 6%115 99,801 4%90 67,805 1 Substructure

%Costper m2




Total cost


Total: 2,679550


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026

REVISED PROPOSAL

1000m2

Total: 3,300000

Total cost Cost/m2 %

513,900 513 16%

672,455 670 21%

325,136 325 10%

201,990 202 6%

775,350 775 23%

350,000 350 11%

406,000 406 13%

3,300,000 3300 100%

3,300,000 3300 100%

Greyfriars Community Centre

Henley College

St Andrews

Proposal

For many international students, students with special needs or disability and students from diverse religious backgrounds, starting university, sometimes in a new country is an exciting and enlightening opportunity, but it can also be an overwhelming and perplexing experience to those unfamiliar with the cultural and environmental ramifications of the new place they are living. The centre must provide an impartial environment, a sanctuary within which people can temporarily escape the academic environment as well as the general busy, hectic stresses of modern life in a UK city. the building should create a sense of removal from the immediate environment, allowing people to become acutely unaware of the strong cultural qualities that typically define a place, religious reference or sense of hierarchy. These qualities can often be prohibitive or structured to accommodate some more than others. The intention is of a level playing field whereby our attention is taken from the everyday career-driven, money-oriented and materialistic. The building should be the embodiment of the simple, physical, exis-tential and spiritual needs common to everybodys well-being. With a strong focus on the physical environment: the elements, light, sky, weather, ecology, earth and water, the building will provide a suggestive space where individuals can feel united by common ground and free to express themselves without feeling alienated as a minority. To reflect this concept, the interior of the building must portray a vision of simplicity and functional form, removed from unnecessary excess, reckless design statement pieces or visual complexity. A refined material palette must provide simple solutions, driven by functional components, the range of durability required, the desired longevity and the environmental quality to be achieved. As such, the built form must be economically justified in the sense of lifespan, truth to materials and en-vironmental credentials. From an original budget of 1 million to a revised 3 million, the extra funding does not aim to provide scope for a more lavish architectural response, but instead caters for additional complementing use types previously unidentified by the university. These in themselves invest higher capital costs, but provide much greater value for money within the annual running of the building. As well as this, it will fund a strong emphasis on integration with the outside environment beyond basic landscaping, providing well-designed, garden spaces that can be enjoyed and utilised throughout the seasons. Substantial additional expenses identified during the analysis stage in relation to site preparation, access and mechanical requirements, as well as works to adjoining buildings, parking, services e.t.c. to facilitate the new accommodation have also been considered in the application for a revised budget.

Site Selection and Design Philosophy

Site B is the preferred choice for construction of the new building. Located in a courtyard between the School of Music and Aberdare Hall, comprising two historic red brick buildings completed in 1893, and connected by an arched walkway, forming the primary entrance to the site. Included within the Cathays Conservation Area, the proposal is to demolish the 60s accommodation block to the south west, opening up a prime plot, bordering the boundary of Queen Anne Square. The site is chosen for a number of reasons. Firstly, the nature of the building suggests a need for quiet and contemplation and a strong connection with the outside environment. This site naturally meets these requirements providing the ideal setting, set back from the main road, with very few outside sources of disruption. The site is particularly inward-facing, with strong boundaries. For many projects, especially those with a commercial focus, this would propose a significant challenge, but is fundamentally well suited to the secluded and understated nature of a retreat centre. Borrowing from the original concept stage, the design philosophy is to utilise lightweight construction methods, highly appropriate for intermittent use, low thermal mass and air-delivered heating and environmental control. Sitting in strong contrast with the surrounding heavyweight brick buildings, this is not only a practical and budgetary incentive, but fundamentally appropriate to the feel of the space. Unlike traditional places of worship, often iconic buildings of solidity and permanent internal layouts that feel as though they will remain unchanged for many generations, this building should instead be a testament to a changing, multinational and multifaith society. The building should be a reflection of change and progression, to feel very much of its time, designed not as a monument, but as a space that can facilitate change, adapting during its lifetime, and designed with a strong consideration for user interaction and the materials and finishes important to that user.

The design philosophy is heavily influenced by the Zen style of design, adapted as a Japanese concept promoting the importance of the meditative state and contemplation over ritual or study of scriptures. Although the building must be designed to accommodate ritual worship and individual expression, the idea that this is a place where everybody is able to contemplate and reflect under the same roof whilst going about their daily activities acts to unite many different cultures with a common ground. Traditional Zen style buildings, although striking and beautiful, are fundamentally very simple, very lightweight, often timber and surrounded by screens with a strong connection with the outside elements. The buildings sit, poised over a firmly grounded foundation stone, which often extends into the immediate landscape as rocks, boulders and pebbles designed to represent the hills and geology of the greater landscape. Wild mosses, ferns and grasses weave between these heavy ground elements, often with a focus on a pool or steam, representing the impermanence, fragility and constantly changing nature of the environment we inhabit. As opposed to hard landscaping, manicured lawns and formal planting, the landscape must be unkempt, rough and able to naturally evolve with minimal maintenance. The main structural elements of the building should be driven by necessity and function, with simple connections and structural solutions used in favour of the complex or highly engineered. The majority of the structure will utilise efficient timber framing comprised of small sections, with steel elements where required. Components such as walls will be constructed from cheap and readily available materials, and doubling as storage and acoustic partition. Elements such as floor finishes, doors and glazing, furniture and the special components that must resist heavy user interaction, and those important to the activities taking place can be more hard-wearing and higher spec. For example, envelope walls and ceilings can be simple plasterboarded finishes, structural elements left as they come, with minimal use of decora-tion or ornament. Shadow gaps should be used around frames and special components, with clear boundaries between the small number of different materials. Floor finishes may be of polished concrete or polished timber, according to traffic or activity with glazing creating an unobscured interaction with the outside: floor to ceiling in communal spaces, and focused or carefully orientated in private or secular spaces. Lighting is of great importance, and the overall scheme should use both natural and artificial light with equal importance, with the building potentially used to a high extent out of hours. Lighting should be subtle and not overbearing, but the overall effect creating a strong sense of drama. For example, it may not be necessary to evenly light the entire space, but rather highlight particular areas, with strong use of shadow and low light to the peripheries. To separate the different parts and uses of the building, so they are visually connected, but at the same time private and acoustically isolated, internal rooms may become sculptural elements in themselves, incorporating religious objects and artefacts where needed, with rooms appearing as pieces of sculpted furniture. This creates a feeling of domesticity within such a large building envelope without being too literal. This also takes the impetus away from the items and furnishings placed within the room, promoting a space that feels greater than the sum of its parts. Exterior courtyards placed internally in plan, with lightwell gardens which separate indoor rooms by outside space will create excellent acoustic separation, whilst visually uniting different parts of the building and bringing large volumes of natural light to the interior plan. Site Considerations: Programme Constraints and Opportunities, Access, Logistics and Part L:

Placing the building on this site opens up great potential for the school of music to coexist with additional performance space and refreshment/restaurant facilities, ensuring year-round occupation and a strong source of revenue outside of passers by and minority groups. This coincides with the universitys long term development strategy for expanding the campus and better integrating its peripheries. Economically, the approach to balancing materials between those that are purely practical and structural, and those integral to user interaction dictates where the budget will be concentrated most heavily. Frame, cladding and structural elements must be use cheap, readily available and sustainable materials in a practical and low-maintenance way, in small enough sections for access to the confined site, but prefabricated wherever possible to minimise waste and construction time. Softwood should be chosen over hardwood, therefore timber elements should not be exposed to the exterior, with steel elements used where connecting timbers. The interior design may therefore want to dominate the users attention away from the structure itself, only revealing glimpses of the building in carefully chosen areas. On the exterior, a durable, sustainable cladding material should be chosen, potentially incorporating or future-proofing for energy generating systems. As the site has restricted access with a narrow archway which will form the primary access route for the final building as well as day-to-day construction access, an additional access point will be made through the wall connecting the rear access road for infrequent and bulk deliveries of materials. Negotiations will need to be made with the council, the telephone distribution board relocated and upgraded, and hoarding erected. Following asbestos removal, demolition and excavation materials from the 60s structure will be used to grade the adjacent music school car park, creating a temporary site holding area and office. No access is to be made through Queen Anne Square, and justification may be made to creating a minimal frontage to Queen Anne square, which would otherwise be competing with the Georgian style detached houses and generate undesired disruption to the local residents. The building should instead front, with main glazing into the interior courtyard. The existing arches and red brick buildings offer huge potential for glazed connecting structures, possibly for com-munal circulation and cafe/retail space, which will require considerable attention to detail and sympathy to the listed building fabrics. Strong consideration needs to be placed on service access and storage space in the basement, where space is at a premium, and the additional mechanical and acoustic requirements for performance-use considered from the outset and designed in to the building. The nature of the construction dictates that BREEAM very good/excellent status can be aimed for, with an impetus on sustainable materials, local ecology and low heating costs. This will be achieved using air-delivery heat generated from a heat pump system using borehole loops on the confined site, with simple, user-friendly and zoned controls designed to work around inhabited periods. On completion, it is essential that an ongoing management and monitoring process is maintained to ensure long-term efficient operation and that the building is performing for its users in a positive and beneficial way.

Aerial view of site Early Sketch Scheme Proposals Budgetary Proposal Elemental Breakdown (refer to detailed itemised breakdown)

Main proposal cross section, showing all main spaces (facing South-East toward Aberdare Hall)

THOMAS WAKEMANCARDIFF MULTIFAITH RETREAT CENTER

Design and Access Statement

Proposal: On-Campus retreat centre: a multi-use space to accommodate for gatherings, pastoral care, multifaith activities, contemplation and reading. The centre it so sit alongside other university accommodation, providing an unparalleled environment with out-of-hours access to cater for the needs of a multinational and multifaith student and staff community, as well as providing connections with the greater Cardiff community. The building must accommodate for a range of different activities which will vary in scale and profile, from large gathering space for religious ceremony, performances and open-day events to individual cellular spaces for private prayer and reflection, also communal facilities spaces for receptions, classes such as yoga and meditation and refreshments. The building will therefore need to be highly versatile and able to adapt to the inherent range of environmental, practical and social requirements that come with the different activities occurring in these spaces. With a revised budget of 3 Million and a total permitted floor plan of 1000m2, the project provides scope for a design of substantial quality.

(A) Main Gated Entrance

Site Entrance through arched gateway

Site Proposal: Key Spaces and Aerial InformationColonnade of arches: to become internal coffee house boothsMain Entrance archway with french doors access to addition above

Established tree periphery

31382

26910

3189

2190

8830

9234

9400

25840

13829

34031

51770

3761

North

Aberdare Hall

School of Music

Floor 0 Music Library& dorms

library and dormentrance

Commercial KitchensBasement accessand oil tank

Queen AnneSquare Corbett Road

Column Terrace

Parking Lot

Parking lot andturning

entrance

entrance

formal entrance

Girls Dorm entrance

Substation

Construction traffic

vehicular access

ramp to parkinglot

footpath

lawns

footpath

offices

patio

archway

arched connecting'bridge'

Residential homes and yards

garages

3307

8370

boundary wall

boundarywall

implied facadeboundary

demolished60's block


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Existing Site Conditions, Access and Development Phases

Norwich Cathedral Refectory, Hopkins Architects

Birch ply used as interior wall material: individual prayer roomsRead-Nest, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekte

Zen-inspired couryard rock garden enclosed by inward-facing glazingWater Cherry House, Kengo Kuma Architects

Entrance: superhuman quality: spine stone wall, matching foundation, full height doorsWhitelee Windfarm, Hypostyle Architects & House Roces, Govaert & Vanhoutte

Simple, exposed rafters & steel columns: connecting walkwayViking Long House, Ireland, Jane D Burnside Architects

Raw, understated quality: natural materials, polished concrete: meditation & worshipWerkhaus, tka - Thomas Krger

Upper floor exposed wood rafters and light quality: intimate space for worshipMilitary building, Bureau SLA

0 Ground Floor & Landscaping Level 1:100 829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550

829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550


829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550

829,207 13%545,877 25%788,470 20%1,000000 37%Total





















HVAC system


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


Total: 2,679550


Preliminary Cost EstimateREVISED Cost Estimate

Services, mechanical & sustainable products (including frame & external walls) reflected as 50% total build cost

1000m2

Heat pump, Thermal store, MVHR, associated 280,000Soft landscaping, sunken garden, as-sociated trees and planting, decking/patio, bike storage, existing demoli-tion/levelling, asbestos removal(major site works & basement excavation included in substructure estimates)350,000

Sustainable products and systems:Cedar shingle cladding & roof; 34kW PV array; low-grade UK spruce box frame with SIP system, high perfor-mance frameless doors/curtain wall glazing, small % southern exposure to upper storeys, minimising solar gain, high sustainability & high returns600,000

Simple drylined/birch ply-faced partitions, with extra for acoustic treatment. Birch-faced SIP panels to form interior surface of external walls54000Electrical, mech, lifts, data, CCTV, alarms, BMS, audio, access, theatre435,000

1,800000 55%

Total 3,300000 (for review)


100%~28002,758,750100%1,4801,508,373100%1,8061,555,710


--3%48 49,750 0 0 0 0 9 Design Fees

100%27582,758,75097%1,431 1,458,623100%1,806 1,555,710


9%250250,0000 0 4%64 55,475 7%150 112,933 8 Contingencies

10%280280,00017%248 253,378 8%150 129,390 10%210 157,917 7 Preliminaries

20%550550,00019%279 285,051 10%172 148,872 20%398 299,066 6 External Works

20%530530,00013%195 199,332 25%452 389,345 20%399 299,793 5 Services


5%150150,5006%94 96,102 7%124 106,769 6%113 84,888 3 Finishes

30%850850,00035%518 528,517 39%699 602,335 31%631 473,283 2 Superstructure

4%120120,2506%94 96,243 6%115 99,801 4%90 67,805 1 Substructure

%Costper m2




Total cost


Total: 2,679550


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026


100%~28002,758,750100%1,4801,508,373100%1,8061,555,710


--3%48 49,750 0 0 0 0 9 Design Fees

100%27582,758,75097%1,431 1,458,623100%1,806 1,555,710


9%250250,0000 0 4%64 55,475 7%150 112,933 8 Contingencies

10%280280,00017%248 253,378 8%150 129,390 10%210 157,917 7 Preliminaries

20%550550,00019%279 285,051 10%172 148,872 20%398 299,066 6 External Works

20%530530,00013%195 199,332 25%452 389,345 20%399 299,793 5 Services


5%150150,5006%94 96,102 7%124 106,769 6%113 84,888 3 Finishes

30%850850,00035%518 528,517 39%699 602,335 31%631 473,283 2 Superstructure

4%120120,2506%94 96,243 6%115 99,801 4%90 67,805 1 Substructure

%Costper m2




Total cost


Total: 2,679550


Total: 1,508373


Total: 1,555710


Total: 1,511026

REVISED PROPOSAL

1000m2

Total: 3,300000

Total cost Cost/m2 %

513,900 513 16%

672,455 670 21%

325,136 325 10%

201,990 202 6%

775,350 775 23%

350,000 350 11%

406,000 406 13%

3,300,000 3300 100%

3,300,000 3300 100%

Greyfriars Community Centre

Henley College

St Andrews

Proposal

For many international students, students with special needs or disability and students from diverse religious backgrounds, starting university, sometimes in a new country is an exciting and enlightening opportunity, but it can also be an overwhelming and perplexing experience to those unfamiliar with the cultural and environmental ramifications of the new place they are living. The centre must provide an impartial environment, a sanctuary within which people can temporarily escape the academic environment as well as the general busy, hectic stresses of modern life in a UK city. the building should create a sense of removal from the immediate environment, allowing people to become acutely unaware of the strong cultural qualities that typically define a place, religious reference or sense of hierarchy. These qualities can often be prohibitive or structured to accommodate some more than others. The intention is of a level playing field whereby our attention is taken from the everyday career-driven, money-oriented and materialistic. The building should be the embodiment of the simple, physical, exis-tential and spiritual needs common to everybodys well-being. With a strong focus on the physical environment: the elements, light, sky, weather, ecology, earth and water, the building will provide a suggestive space where individuals can feel united by common ground and free to express themselves without feeling alienated as a minority. To reflect this concept, the interior of the building must portray a vision of simplicity and functional form, removed from unnecessary excess, reckless design statement pieces or visual complexity. A refined material palette must provide simple solutions, driven by functional components, the range of durability required, the desired longevity and the environmental quality to be achieved. As such, the built form must be economically justified in the sense of lifespan, truth to materials and en-vironmental credentials. From an original budget of 1 million to a revised 3 million, the extra funding does not aim to provide scope for a more lavish architectural response, but instead caters for additional complementing use types previously unidentified by the university. These in themselves invest higher capital costs, but provide much greater value for money within the annual running of the building. As well as this, it will fund a strong emphasis on integration with the outside environment beyond basic landscaping, providing well-designed, garden spaces that can be enjoyed and utilised throughout the seasons. Substantial additional expenses identified during the analysis stage in relation to site preparation, access and mechanical requirements, as well as works to adjoining buildings, parking, services e.t.c. to facilitate the new accommodation have also been considered in the application for a revised budget.

Site Selection and Design Philosophy

Site B is the preferred choice for construction of the new building. Located in a courtyard between the School of Music and Aberdare Hall, comprising two historic red brick buildings completed in 1893, and connected by an arched walkway, forming the primary entrance to the site. Included within the Cathays Conservation Area, the proposal is to demolish the 60s accommodation block to the south west, opening up a prime plot, bordering the boundary of Queen Anne Square. The site is chosen for a number of reasons. Firstly, the nature of the building suggests a need for quiet and contemplation and a strong connection with the outside environment. This site naturally meets these requirements providing the ideal setting, set back from the main road, with very few outside sources of disruption. The site is particularly inward-facing, with strong boundaries. For many projects, especially those with a commercial focus, this would propose a significant challenge, but is fundamentally well suited to the secluded and understated nature of a retreat centre. Borrowing from the original concept stage, the design philosophy is to utilise lightweight construction methods, highly appropriate for intermittent use, low thermal mass and air-delivered heating and environmental control. Sitting in strong contrast with the surrounding heavyweight brick buildings, this is not only a practical and budgetary incentive, but fundamentally appropriate to the feel of the space. Unlike traditional places of worship, often iconic buildings of solidity and permanent internal layouts that feel as though they will remain unchanged for many generations, this building should instead be a testament to a changing, multinational and multifaith society. The building should be a reflection of change and progression, to feel very much of its time, designed not as a monument, but as a space that can facilitate change, adapting during its lifetime, and designed with a strong consideration for user interaction and the materials and finishes important to that user.

The design philosophy is heavily influenced by the Zen style of design, adapted as a Japanese concept promoting the importance of the meditative state and contemplation over ritual or study of scriptures. Although the building must be designed to accommodate ritual worship and individual expression, the idea that this is a place where everybody is able to contemplate and reflect under the same roof whilst going about their daily activities acts to unite many different cultures with a common ground. Traditional Zen style buildings, although striking and beautiful, are fundamentally very simple, very lightweight, often timber and surrounded by screens with a strong connection with the outside elements. The buildings sit, poised over a firmly grounded foundation stone, which often extends into the immediate landscape as rocks, boulders and pebbles designed to represent the hills and geology of the greater landscape. Wild mosses, ferns and grasses weave between these heavy ground elements, often with a focus on a pool or steam, representing the impermanence, fragility and constantly changing nature of the environment we inhabit. As opposed to hard landscaping, manicured lawns and formal planting, the landscape must be unkempt, rough and able to naturally evolve with minimal maintenance. The main structural elements of the building should be driven by necessity and function, with simple connections and structural solutions used in favour of the complex or highly engineered. The majority of the structure will utilise efficient timber framing comprised of small sections, with steel elements where required. Components such as walls will be constructed from cheap and readily available materials, and doubling as storage and acoustic partition. Elements such as floor finishes, doors and glazing, furniture and the special components that must resist heavy user interaction, and those important to the activities taking place can be more hard-wearing and higher spec. For example, envelope walls and ceilings can be simple plasterboarded finishes, structural elements left as they come, with minimal use of decora-tion or ornament. Shadow gaps should be used around frames and special components, with clear boundaries between the small number of different materials. Floor finishes may be of polished concrete or polished timber, according to traffic or activity with glazing creating an unobscured interaction with the outside: floor to ceiling in communal spaces, and focused or carefully orientated in private or secular spaces. Lighting is of great importance, and the overall scheme should use both natural and artificial light with equal importance, with the building potentially used to a high extent out of hours. Lighting should be subtle and not overbearing, but the overall effect creating a strong sense of drama. For example, it may not be necessary to evenly light the entire space, but rather highlight particular areas, with strong use of shadow and low light to the peripheries. To separate the different parts and uses of the building, so they are visually connected, but at the same time private and acoustically isolated, internal rooms may become sculptural elements in themselves, incorporating religious objects and artefacts where needed, with rooms appearing as pieces of sculpted furniture. This creates a feeling of domesticity within such a large building envelope without being too literal. This also takes the impetus away from the items and furnishings placed within the room, promoting a space that feels greater than the sum of its parts. Exterior courtyards placed internally in plan, with lightwell gardens which separate indoor rooms by outside space will create excellent acoustic separation, whilst visually uniting different parts of the building and bringing large volumes of natural light to the interior plan. Site Considerations: Programme Constraints and Opportunities, Access, Logistics and Part L:

Placing the building on this site opens up great potential for the school of music to coexist with additional performance space and refreshment/restaurant facilities, ensuring year-round occupation and a strong source of revenue outside of passers by and minority groups. This coincides with the universitys long term development strategy for expanding the campus and better integrating its peripheries. Economically, the approach to balancing materials between those that are purely practical and structural, and those integral to user interaction dictates where the budget will be concentrated most heavily. Frame, cladding and structural elements must be use cheap, readily available and sustainable materials in a practical and low-maintenance way, in small enough sections for access to the confined site, but prefabricated wherever possible to minimise waste and construction time. Softwood should be chosen over hardwood, therefore timber elements should not be exposed to the exterior, with steel elements used where connecting timbers. The interior design may therefore want to dominate the users attention away from the structure itself, only revealing glimpses of the building in carefully chosen areas. On the exterior, a durable, sustainable cladding material should be chosen, potentially incorporating or future-proofing for energy generating systems. As the site has restricted access with a narrow archway which will form the primary access route for the final building as well as day-to-day construction access, an additional access point will be made through the wall connecting the rear access road for infrequent and bulk deliveries of materials. Negotiations will need to be made with the council, the telephone distribution board relocated and upgraded, and hoarding erected. Following asbestos removal, demolition and excavation materials from the 60s structure will be used to grade the adjacent music school car park, creating a temporary site holding area and office. No access is to be made through Queen Anne Square, and justification may be made to creating a minimal frontage to Queen Anne square, which would otherwise be competing with the Georgian style detached houses and generate undesired disruption to the local residents. The building should instead front, with main glazing into the interior courtyard. The existing arches and red brick buildings offer huge potential for glazed connecting structures, possibly for com-munal circulation and cafe/retail space, which will require considerable attention to detail and sympathy to the listed building fabrics. Strong consideration needs to be placed on service access and storage space in the basement, where space is at a premium, and the additional mechanical and acoustic requirements for performance-use considered from the outset and designed in to the building. The nature of the construction dictates that BREEAM very good/excellent status can be aimed for, with an impetus on sustainable materials, local ecology and low heating costs. This will be achieved using air-delivery heat generated from a heat pump system using borehole loops on the confined site, with simple, user-friendly and zoned controls designed to work around inhabited periods. On completion, it is essential that an ongoing management and monitoring process is maintained to ensure long-term efficient operation and that the building is performing for its users in a positive and beneficial way.

Aerial view of site Early Sketch Scheme Proposals Budgetary Proposal Elemental Breakdown (refer to detailed itemised breakdown)

Main proposal cross section, showing all main spaces (facing South-East toward Aberdare Hall)

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Master telephone point located 450mm (underside) above ffl

Single socket outlet located 450mm (underside) above ffl

Double switched socket outlet located 150mm above work surface

Double socket outlet located 450mm (underside) above ffl

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Single switched socket outlet located 150mm above work surface

Television aerial jackpoint - TV/FM or C-Cable TV - located 450mm

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Light switch one way located 1050mm above ffl

Telephone junction box/point located 450mm (underside) above ffl

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switched two way located 1050mm above ffl

switchedLight switch three way located 1050mm above ffl

Dimmer switch located 1050mm above ffl

Down lighter (to accord with RD's as appropriate)

Pendant Light (LE denotes Low Energy Bulb)

Wall light

External wall light - PIR indicates passive infra redfitting

Note -LE alongside symbolindicates fitting thatwill only acceptcompact flourescentlamps in accordancewith Table 4 ADL1 ofthe BuildingRegulations

Electrical Legend

Down lighters to be no nearer than 900mm apart.

Permanent wired, fused & switched spur with indicator light connected tolow level unswitched socket outlet (except immersion which is to be wireddirectly to heater)IH-Immersion WM-Washing Machine DW-Dishwasher FF-Fridge FreezerTD-Tumble Dryer WD-Washer Dryer

Cooker Control Panel

Electricity consumer unit (located at high level)

Gridswitch controlling kitchen appliancesvia low level unswitched socket outlet asindicated

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Door entry phone speaker door release

Alarm key pad panel

Extract fan isolation switch located above door outside Bathrooms/Wc's etc.or at high level near fan in Kitchen

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Ionisation Smoke detector Mains operated smoke detectors and sounders, interconnected withbattery backup and wired to AOV at head of stairs. Installed in accordancewith BS: 5446: Part 1 or BS: 5839-6: 2004 to an LD2 standard

Heat detectorMains operated heat detectors and sounders, interconnected with batterybackup. Installed in accordance with BS: 5446: Part 1 or BS: 5839-6:2004 to an LD2 grade D standard.Positioned not within 300mm of any light fitting or wall.

Note:Three in every Four fixedlight fittings should be energyefficient

5A lighting circuit socket outlet located 450mm (underside) above ffl

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Optical Smoke detector Mains operated smoke detectors and sounders, interconnected withbattery backup and wired to AOV at head of stairs. Installed in accordancewith BS: 5446: Part 1 or BS: 5839-6: 2004 to an LD2 standard

Carbon Monoxide detectorMains operated heat detectors and sounders, interconnected with batterybackup. Installed in accordance with BS: 5446: Part 1 or BS: 5839-6:2004 to an LD2 grade D standard.Positioned not within 300mm of any light fitting or wall.

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