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Advanced Feasibility Study Battersea Arts Centre Battersea Arts Centre Advanced Feasibility Study Haworth Tompkins October 2008 Design Team Battersea Arts Centre Architect Theatre Consultants Services Engineers Lavender Hill Haworth Tompkins Charcoal Blue Skelly & Couch LLP London 19-20 Great Sutton Street 17 Short Street 31 Wentworth Avenue SW11 5TN London London London EC1V 0DR SE1 8LJ N3 1YA Contact: Contact: Andy Hayles Tristan Couch Tel: 020 7319 4000 Tel: 020 7250 3225 Tel: 020 7928 0000 Tel: 07792 693 882 Fax: 020 7319 4001 Fax: 020 7250 3226 Fax: 020 7691 0454 BAC SPACE Team members: Quantity Surveyors Structural Engineers Acoustic Consultants BAC Bristow Johnson & Partners Price & Myers Paul Gillieron Acoustic David Jubb 89 Charlotte Street 30 Newman Street 130 Brixton Hill David Micklem London London London Rosie Hunter W1P 1LD W1T 1LT SW2 1RS Richard Couldrey Allegra Galvin Contact: Contact: Contact: Haworth Tompkins Lindsay Cornock Paul Batty Paul Gillieron Steve Tompkins Joanna Sutherland Tel: 020 7636 1036 Tel: 020 7631 5128 Tel: 020 8671 2223 Holly van de Coevering Fax: 020 7436 5347 Fax: 020 7462 1394 Fax: 020 8671 2402 Battersea Arts Centre Principal Elevation Stage C- Report: Contents Supporting BAC’s Playgrounding Projects Vision 6 Description of the scheme 26 Introduction 6 An approach to the building 26 Architect’s statement 8 Architectural plans and drawings 27 BAC statement 12 Next Steps 46 Collaboration and process 14 Theatre 47 Collaboration 14 Theatre, Participation, Events, Space 14 Services 81 In house projects 14 Consultation 16 Structure 97 Building Control 18 Conservation Management Statement 18 Acoustics 105 Heritage Partnership Agreement pilot 18 Design Team 20 Health & Safety 113 Sustainability 20 M&E brief 22 Cost 117 Team Roles 22 Approach to Fundraising 22 Lease 22 Appendices Procurement 24 1. Conservation Strategy Sensitivity drawings 133 CC Skills 24 2. WPG existing building survey 143 3. Stage C- Demolition drawings 155 4 Artists during The Masque of the Red Death 5 Vision Introduction only make improvements after testing our assumptions Haworth Tompkins and Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) and the potential benefits of these. We will treat the have embarked on a long-term, phased redevelopment building as a playground in which artist, audience and of BAC’s home in Battersea’s old Town Hall. We architect will participate in a series of experiments have developed a shared vision for a 21st century in order to develop the space together. We will apply performance environment in a 19th century public BAC’s theatre-making methodologies to our capital building. project: ‘scratching’ space with low cost experiments We seek to: prior to significant and costly interventions, and • improve the building for artists, staff and visitors gathering feedback from artists and audiences that will • provide equal access and make the building compliant inform the decisions we make. with current legislation • install 21st century technology for users of the We want to encourage people to explore the space. A space great strength of the Town Hall as a home for BAC is • spend time and energy developing our plans that it is not a theatre: a provocation for artists and organically in partnership with artists and audiences an adventure for audiences. We will resist the urge to • rediscover the building as it was originally intended, reconcile flow or resolve architectural idiosyncrasies. celebrating the architecture to create an extraordinary We will keep the building open during our planned found space. capital programme and maintain artist and audience engagement with the building works as they happen. We will make some architectural improvements in We aim to offer a vision for the future of flexible theatre sympathy with the building and its heritage. We will spaces in the UK. Fuzzy Surgery in The Fireplace Room 6 The Prinicpal Stairs 7 Architect’s statement Architect’s statement met and we are more certain than ever that our • Creating a genuine sense of ‘home’ for staff and This report builds on the thinking of the Fuzzy Logic collective approach is the right one for BAC. artists, including residential accommodation and preliminary feasibility study, exploring the ways in informal entertaining facilities. which the extraordinary architecture of BAC can The key principles remain: • Creating a better equipped, more capable and more become an even more vivid and supple performance • Increasing the sense of conviviality, welcome and efficient production workshop and a better get in to environment for audiences and artists. The design intrigue throughout the building. streamline performance support. team and the BAC client team have developed the • Re-vivifying the heart of the Town Hall to strengthen • Connecting the building to useable outdoor public core ideas of Fuzzy Logic through an intensive process the connection between the Lavender Hill building and spaces, strengthening the invitation of the BAC and of consultation with artists, producers, statutory and the Grand Hall. reinforcing connections with the neighbourhood. funding officers, local people and the BAC staff and • Increasing the coverage, compliance and ambition of • Allowing the maximum latitude for future board members. the public safety and access infrastructures. improvisations, explorations and non-permanent • Increasing radically the technical capacity of the interventions by artists, producers and BAC staff, We have reaffirmed the principles of the Fuzzy Logic building to support performance and protect the long- so that the building remains provisional, fresh and study and, through collaboration and dialogue, built new term viability of the BAC. surprising. and unforeseen layers of richness and connection into • Making new physical connections and adjustments our early design moves. Throughout the consultation within the found spaces to allow even richer artistic Working very closely, Haworth Tompkins and BAC have process we have found that the idea of evolving a light- possibilities within the building and opening up more developed the design to the point where a preliminary footed, highly adaptable environment of connected of the building as a viable performance environment. scope of work and cost plan for the whole building can performance spaces through deft, minimally invasive • Making the building more sustainable through fabric be constructed. Because the alterations are designed architectural additions has remained compelling. We upgrades or repairs, more imaginative environmental to allow the maximum number of performance have been reassured by the degree of understanding expectations and energy efficiencies in the technical permutations in use, part of the design process has and enthusiasm with which the proposals have been systems. involved un-coupling room names from specific uses. 8 Workshop in the basement Artist during a Trashy event The Principal Staircase during a Trashy event 9 Rather, the original town hall names, acquired names endeavour and genuine partnership - the results of condition, and corresponds closely with BAC’s ‘Scratch’ from past productions or new, non-specific names have these early conversations is very encouraging. methodology for developing new performance work. An been adopted to de-classify the spaces and encourage early project will be the conversion of the Grand Hall to a less pre-conceived, more direct relationship with the Having consulted again with artists, staff and statutory a temporary 450-seat performance space in the spring architecture. A strategy for a building-wide technical officers, the design and cost plan should be developed, of 2009. infrastructure and a corresponding set of moveable, after which each work phase could be progressed performance and environmental hardware has been as a stand alone project, subject to building wide Steve Tompkins developed to support a completely mutable definition infrastructural issues. We envisage a continuation of performance, circulation, and support spaces. of the discursive, highly collaborative design process up to the completion of stage D Scheme Design, after The scope and overall cost has been quantified for which each phase would enter a more conventional, the first time and now needs to be evaluated in terms more linear trajectory up to completion of the work of achievability. The next task is to explore options package on site. This will minimise cost risk due to for packaging and phasing the works so that the design change or programme over-run. It is likely that building can remain open to the public, so that the the scopes of the contractor’s work will be tailored construction work can be programmed alongside the to allow completion and adjustment of each project other BAC work strands, and so that the scope of each phase post-contract by BAC, the design team and the phase dovetails with BAC’s fundraising capacity. A artists themselves. short list of possible building contractors have been consulted both in terms of their ability to carry out a This exploratory, provisional approach would allow phased programme of works and also in terms of their subsequent phases to be informed by the ways in willingness to engage with BAC at a level of shared which artists and audiences respond to a new ‘existing’ 10 Fuzzy Surgery in the courtyard Fuzzy Surgery Fuzzy Surgery lunch White board design sketches Design sketches during Fuzzy Surgery 11 BAC statement BAC Statement Battersea Arts Centre has been based in the old Town Hall since 1980. Wandsworth Borough Council has been responsible for managing the building during all that time and has invested millions of pounds in its upkeep. In 2006 the senior management team of BAC talked with Nick Starr (BAC’s Chair and Executive Director of the National Theatre) about a desire to develop the building and open up the one acre site for greater use by the community, by artists and audiences. Nick introduced Historical research BAC to Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins. It quickly became clear that there was a parallel track between Haworth Tompkins’ architectural practice and BAC’s work as developer and producer of new theatre.
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