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111 2 3 4 5 Designing Better Buildings 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 Designing is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This 322 well-illustrated book comprises 18 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients and academics, 4 and presents the latest thinking on design quality and value. For designers and their clients alike, it 5 provides evidence to justify greater emphasis on, and investment in, design. It summarises the 6 benefits that arise from good design – such as civic pride and urban regeneration, corporate identity, 7 occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient 8 recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits 9 through case study examples. 30 Part One describes the perspective of clients and what they expect from design. Part Two 1 presents case studies in various sectors – offices, schools, healthcare buildings – to explain how and 2 why the designs came about. Part Three addresses the processes necessary to achieve design 3 quality. Part Four discusses the issue of whether and how design quality can be measured. 4 The book is intended for construction industry practitioners, particularly in architectural, 5 engineering, planning, surveying and project management practices, as well as clients responsible for 6 commissioning buildings and civil engineering projects. It will be an essential text book for many 7 university courses in the built environment, including architecture, engineering, construction, planning 8 and urban design. 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 611 Designing Better Buildings Quality and Value in the Built Environment Edited by Sebastian Macmillan 1 2 322 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 611 First published 2004 by Spon Press 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Spon Press 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2004 Editorial and selection, Taylor & Francis, individual chapters – the authors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Designing better buildings/edited by Sebastian Macmillan p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Architectural design. I. Macmillan, Sebastian. NA2750.D4168 2003 721–dc21 2003006275 ISBN 0-203-56332-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-33707-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–31525–5 (hb) 0–415–31526–3 (pb) 111 Contents 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 Illustration acknowledgements vi 9 Assessing benefits in the health 6 Notes on Contributors vii sector, Bryan Lawson 100 7 Foreword: Challenges for designers, 10 Making special places for health 8 Robin Nicholson xiv care, Susan Francis 107 9 Preface xviii 11 Adding value through better urban 20 1 Design as a value generator design, Matthew Carmona 116 1 Sebastian Macmillan 1 2 Part Three: Delivering better 322 Part One: The perspective of clients 13 buildings 131 4 2 Clients and quality, 12 Design qualtiy needs conscious 5 Tony Pollington 16 values, Giles Oliver 135 6 3 Learning more from what we build, 13 Flexibility and adaptability, 7 Bill Bordass 21 Adrian Leaman, Bill Bordass 145 8 4 Client’s perspective on the value 14 Managing design and construction, 9 of good design, Peter Trebilcock 157 30 Dickon Robinson 33 1 5 The long-term costs of owning Part Four: Measuring quality and 2 and using buildings, value 171 3 Raymond Evans, Richard Haryott, 15 Inclusive maps, 4 Norman Haste, Alan Jones 42 Sunand Prasad 175 5 16 Achieving quality in building design 6 Part Two: Case studies of added by intention, Michael Dickson 185 7 value 51 17 Building indicators of design quality, 8 6 Measuring value or only cost: the Jennifer Whyte, David Gann, 9 need for new valuation methods, Ammon Salter 195 40 Jon Rouse 55 18 Housing quality indicators in practice, 1 7 Measuring and improving Paul Wheeler 206 2 functionality and performance, 3 Terry Wyatt 72 Index 216 4 8 Design quality in new schools, 5 Richard Feilden 86 611 v Illustration acknowledgements The authors and publisher wish to thank those listed below for their permission to reproduce material: Figures 4.2 Raf Makda/VIEW; 4.3a and b Timothy Soar; 4.4 Raf Makda/VIEW; 6.1 Dennis Gilbert/VIEW; 6.2 Diana Edmunds; 6.3 Peter Cook/VIEW; 6.4 Richard Bryant/Arcaid; 6.5 Dennis Gilbert/VIEW; 6.6 Martine Hamilton Knight; 6.7 and 6.8 Peter Cook/VIEW; 7.1 Peter Cook/VIEW; 7.8 Adam Wilson; 7.9 Chris Gascoigne/VIEW; 8.4–8.7 Hampshire County Council Architects; 8.11 Brian Edwards; 8.12 Simon Doling; 14.1–14.3 Louis Hellman. Plates 1 and 2 Raf Makda/VIEW; 3, 4 and 5 Dennis Gilbert/VIEW; 6 and 7 Peter Cook/VIEW; 8 and 9 Dennis Gilbert/VIEW; 10, 11 and 12 Peter Cook/VIEW; 13 Paul Rattigan/VIEW; 14 Tom Scott/VIEW. vi 111 Notes on contributors 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 Bill Bordass UCL. Previously he worked as a lecturer at the 6 Bill Bordass moved from science research to University of Nottingham and before that as a 7 the multi-skilled design practice RMJM London. researcher and as an architect in private 8 He worked on briefing, planning, and practice. He is particularly interested in the 9 environmental impact, and became associate in policy context for delivering better design 20 charge of building services, energy and quality in the built environment, having worked 1 environmental design. Working on new, existing on a range of research projects examining 2 and historic buildings, he became particularly design policies in local plans, residential design 322 interested in monitoring environmental and policy and guidance, best value in planning and 4 energy performance, investigating technical urban design, the working relationships 5 problems, and using the results to inform between housing providers and planners, and 6 briefing, design and management. In 1984 he the management of public space. Currently, he 7 set up William Bordass Associates, which does holds a position on the CABE Urban Design 8 post-occupancy and energy surveys, monitoring, Skills Working Group, and is a member of the 9 troubleshooting, briefing, research management RTPI Council. He is also on the editorial board 30 and publication. His main interest is in how of Urban Design Quarterly, and is Book 1 buildings and their engineering and control Reviews Editor for the Journal of Urban Design. 2 systems actually work, and the implications for 3 clients, specification, design, benchmarking, Michael Dickson 4 procurement and management. He is a Michael Dickson is an engineer who studied 5 member of the Probe Team, which undertakes mechanical sciences at Cambridge University 6 post-occupancy studies of technical and energy followed by structural engineering and town 7 performance and occupant and management planning at Cornell University, USA. He has 8 satisfaction in recent buildings, and publishes worked on a wide range of major building 9 them in Building Services Journal. He is engineering and urban regeneration projects 40 currently leading a project on feedback with the such as headquarters buildings for IBM and 1 UK Confederation of Construction Clients. British Airways in England, headquarters for 2 RWE Essen in Germany, a new main line 3 Matthew Carmona station for Stuttgart 21, a large urban 4 Matthew Carmona is a Reader in planning and development in the centre of Shanghai, and the 5 urban design at the Bartlett School of Planning, Japanese Pavilion in Hannover. Michael is 611 vii Designing Better Buildings Founding Partner and Chairman of Buro where he has had particular responsibility for Happold Consulting Engineers. He was recently educational buildings and PFI schools projects. Chairman of the IStructE Working Group Building for a Sustainable Future – Construction Susan Francis without Depletion and a member of Lord Susan Francis is a senior architectural advisor to Justice Taylor’s Working Group on the Safety of the Future Healthcare Network at the NHS Sports Grounds. He is a Director of the Theatre Confederation, and to the Centre for Health Royal, Bath, and is Chairman of the Architecture and Design at NHS Estates. She is Construction Industry Council, and of its also a research architect at the Medical Steering Group for the Design Quality Indicator. Architecture Research Unit (MARU) at South Bank University, specialising in research and Raymond Evans postgraduate training for the planning and Raymond Evans joined the building services design of health buildings. Studies include post- industry in 1962 as a trainee mechanical occupancy evaluations, design guidance and engineer with a major contractor. He joined the project reviews. She has contributed to national consulting practice of Donald Smith Seymour and international conferences and published and Rooley in 1974, was the resident overseas articles in the medical and design press. Recent partner in the UK practice in 1985 and the publications have focused on developing an managing partner of the London office in 1997. understanding of hospital heritage in Europe Major services projects undertaken include and the relationship of art and architecture in Canary Wharf Tower, North Terminal Gatwick, making therapeutic environments.