Higher Education Workbook

HIGHER EDUCATION WORKBOOK JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS CONTENTS 4 Bringing Clarity to Evolving Campuses “OUR WORK IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR REFLECTS Projects THE CHANGING NEEDS OF INSTITUTIONS TO DIFFERENTIATE 8 GeoSciences Building THEMSELVES IN THIS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MARKET. OUR 14 Haiti Faculty of Sciences WORK EMBRACES EVERYTHING FROM STRATEGIC CAMPUS 16 Lancaster Health Innovation Campus PLANNING TO BESPOKE SPECIALIST TEACHING AND 20 The Clore Music Studios RESEARCH FACILITIES.” 22 Engineering Building 28 School of Chemistry 30 Library and Student Hub HANNAH LAWSON, PARTNER, JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS 34 Courtauld Institute 36 Charles Carter Building 42 Indian Institute of Advanced Nursing 44 Blackpool and Fylde College 46 University of Manchester 48 Post Graduate Statistics Centre 50 John Galsworthy Building 54 EEE Building 56 King Charles Building 60 School of Oriental and African Studies 64 South Trafford College 66 Sandra Burslem Building 70 Royal Academy of Music 74 Polk County Science Building 80 Libraries Building 84 Timeline 86 End Matter 4 Higher Education BRINGING CLARITY TO EVOLVING CAMPUSES Postgraduate Statistics Centre, Lancaster University John Galsworthy Building, Kingston University Royal Academy of Music, London Designing in the Higher Education sector extends equally to the creation of a large interior volume at London’s School their university’s new Faculty of Science, a presents one of the most stimulating inspiring interior spaces. At Manchester of Oriental and African Studies’ main project championed by President Clinton. and important challenge for architects Metropolitan University, for example, library respected the quality of the original The Faculty will train new generations in the 21st century: better standards of the Law Faculty in the Sandra Burslem building, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, of architects, engineers, scientists, and learning and research, in better buildings Building features a huge, floating whilst reinvigorating both its interiors and technicians. The award-winning renovation at colleges and universities, are not only bulkhead containing lecture theatres; exteriors. At Imperial College, London, and modernisation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s key to the reputations of these institutions, at the South Trafford College Art and the practice reprogrammed, re-serviced Polk County Science Building at Florida but are also vital ingredients in the social, Design Centre, teaching spaces, creative and extended the apparently intractable Southern College saved this iconic original urban and technical changes that are studios, an exhibition area, media labs volumes of its 1960s library (a far less work from potentially ruinous decay. And sweeping the world. and ceramic workshop are linked by a important building than Lasdun’s library in India, the design of the Indian Institute Rapidly evolving systems of teaching convivial internal ‘street’; and at Kingston at SOAS) to create much more comfortable of Advanced Nursing (IIAN) in Chennai will and learning have allowed the practice’s University’s John Galsworthy Building, a and efficient conditions for study and support the training of nurses involved in Education Studio to design a wide range centrally programmed teaching facility, research. HIV/AIDS care. This five acre campus will of high quality buildings, in Britain and with 70 teaching rooms of flexible size At the Royal Academy of Music, on include a teaching block, halls of residence overseas. These include the internationally and a student capacity of 2,500, has a very tight site bounded by historically and connective landscaping. Cost prestigious Saïd Business School’s new created a distinctive new social focal-point. important buildings in a Conservation constraints have produced a distinctive Residential Executive and Leadership At Blackpool and Fylde College, the Area, the practice delivered an award- and straightforward design and many Facility in Oxford, involving the sensitive challenge was completely different. The winning “submerged” practice room - a passive environmental features. transformation and extension of large key was to ensure that new interventions distinctive ‘pop-up’ vaulted enclosure - a The projects in this Higher Education Victorian industrial buildings, as well as – a new student hub, which is the first new archive segment and significant Workbook are ample compelling proof a new Health Innovation Campus for building in the town with a BREEAM additional facilities for students. At Trinity of John McAslan + Partners’ ability to Lancaster University. The practice has ‘Excellent’ rating, a refurbished theatre, College of Music, in an historic ensemble deal successfully with a remarkably wide a long-standing relationship with this and modernised teaching buildings of historicallyhugely significant buildings range of design challenges in the Higher university and was commissioned to – were tied into plans for Blackpool’s by Wren, Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh Education sector. deliver a development masterplan of the new University Centre. A key part of on a World Heritage site in Greenwich, distinctive 1960s campus in order to clarify the practice’s proposals also concerned spaces were discreetly modernized and Jay Merrick the use of existing buildings and spaces. landscaping measures to improve urban re-serviced. The practice has identified opportunities links between ‘town and gown’. Overseas, projects have included for new interventions, and has In the case of transforming existing both interventions in important existing subsequently completed the Postgraduate buildings, interventions have to extract academic buildings, and new buildings to Statistics Centre, the Charles Carter maximum value in terms of space use. For serve innovative teaching programmes. In Building, and the Engineering Building, example, the practice’s reconfiguration of Haiti, JMP have designed a scheme for which has won three RIBA Awards. Elsewhere in the UK, the practice is designing The Clore Music Studios for the University of Oxford, as well as the 20,000 sqm GeoSciences Building for the University of Edinburgh. The University’s School of GeoSciences is ranked amongst the top worldwide and is the largest community of GeoScientists in the UK, with 400 academics and research students. The practice’s expertise in place- making for the Higher Education sector GeoSciences Building, University of Edinburgh Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, London School of Oriental and African Studies, London Engineering Building, Lancaster University PROJECTS 8 Higher Education 9 Projects GEOSCIENCES BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH John McAslan + Partners won an international design competition to design the new School of Geosciences Building for the University of Edinburgh. The 20,000 sqm project on the King’s Buildings Campus will encourage communication between researchers and at the same time inspire students by allowing them to see the cross collaborative nature of the whole school. A reinvention of the traditional laboratory layout will achieve transparency throughout the building, visually and digitally connecting write-up areas, laboratories, group rooms and offices. The building will be unified by a dramatic central atrium. Right: view of central atrium. 10 Higher Education 11 Projects External view showing the principal entrance and public realm 12 Higher Education 13 Projects Above: visualisation of internal street; opposite: view of central atrium. The design provides multiple opportunities for both physical and visual connections, linking the core activities of the department. 14 Higher Education 15 Projects HAITI FACULTY OF SCIENCES PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI John McAslan + Partners has been appointed by the Government of Haiti, the Clinton Foundation and the State University of Haiti (UEH) to re-build the University’s Faculty of Sciences (FDS), a key academic institution that will train Haiti’s future engineers, architects, technicians and scientists. Personally championed by President Clinton, the Faculty of Sciences forms part of a phased development. This initial 5,000 sqm project consists of two buildings and the brief calls for a design incorporating the highest level of environmental efficiency. The scheme will include classrooms, laboratories and lecture halls and will be practical, implementable, sustainable and innovative. Below: visualisation showing exterior of the building. Right: visualisation showing central atrium. 16 Higher Education 17 Projects LANCASTER HEALTH INNOVATION CAMPUS LANCASTER UNIVERSITY The Health Innovation Campus is the latest project to emerge from JMP’s longstanding and successful relationship with Lancaster University. The University has set an ambitious challenge: to become a major international presence in the educational field of Health and Medicine through the creation of the new 8,000sqm Health Innovation Campus. JMP’s campus masterplan will bring together businesses, the NHS, students, and academics from a broad range of disciplines. The Health Innovation Campus demands innovative design. We are working closely with the Faculty of Heath and Medicine to develop proposals that will maximise the educational flexibility of the new facility, promote interdisciplinary working and collaboration, and provide exceptional working and learning environments. The holistic design of the HIC aims for a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating. The project is due to go on site this year. Right: visualisation of exterior facade and street 18 Higher Education 19 Projects Above: interior

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