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 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 74 Polk County Science Building 80 Libraries Building

84 Timeline 86 End Matter 4 Higher Education BRINGING CLARITY TO EVOLVING CAMPUSES

Postgraduate Statistics Centre, John Galsworthy Building, Kingston University Royal Academy of Music,

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 . 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 view of street inside the campus; masterplan drawing of the proposal; opposite: exterior exterior view of detailed facade 20 Higher Education 21 Projects THE CLORE MUSIC STUDIOS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

John McAslan + Partners’ scheme for a new series of Th Clore Music Studios for New College, Oxford is now on site. Set within the heart of the city’s Central Conservation Area, the proposal creates a new stone-clad building that is both sympathetic to its historic context yet undeniably contemporary. The building’s form has been partially determined as a response to the archaeological remains of 17th century earth ramparts, built to defend Oxford during the English Civil War, which are incorporated into a new residential courtyard space behind the building.

Internally, the building provides a range of high performance spaces for the practice and study of music, opera and drama, including individual practice rooms and a large group rehearsal space. The scheme utilises a palette Landscapeof high quality Plan materials, including acoustic timber linings, as well as new and retained stone finishes. Construction started in January 2016 and is due to complete in spring 2017.

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Opposite top: cut away section through the preferred option, with double-height rehearsal space, practice N rooms and top-lit studio spaces; opposite below: site Key: plan; top: visualisation showing the new scheme; left: view of existing site. A Main building entrance Trees to be removed B Seating wall Scale: 1:200 @ A3 C Sensory garden D Low hedge with climbers E Security entrance gate F Archaeological Civil War Ramparts G Structured planting H Hedge screen I Reconfigured bin storage J Resin bound gravel K Yorkstone setts at building entrances L New horizontal bar fencing

9 Music Performance Rooms Savile House | Landscape Concept | John McAslan + Partners 22 Higher Education 23 Projects ENGINEERING BUILDING LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

The practice has designed a new home for Lancaster University’s Engineering Department. Now complete, the competition-winning scheme comprises 4,750 sqm of workshop, laboratory and office space in two concrete-framed finger blocks either side of a dramatic four storey atrium. A BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating has been achieved, delivered by renewable energy sources including solar, wind and biomass provisions. The building’s environmental performance is both visible and quantifiable, as part of the Department’s environmental sustainability and is a triple RIBA Award winner, including an award for sustainability.

Above right: view of laboratory; below: exterior view of the new faculty building; opposite: view of central atrium, staircase detail and facade 24 Higher Education 25 Projects

Below left and right: views of technical workshops; opposite: view of the central atrium, showing staircase detail and internal walkways linking all floors 26 Higher Education 27 Projects

Left: views of central atrium and facade; below: exterior view of the entrance to the new faculty building 28 Higher Education 29 Projects

SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

JMP has recently concluded an options appraisal to assess the strategic estate options for the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry, which is based in the Grade B listed Joseph Black Building on the King’s Buildings Campus.

The study proposes a series of phased interventions that will provide a broader range of social and informal study space, creating the required additional laboratory accommodation that will allow the School of Chemistry to operate more effectively within the context of the University’s projected growth figures.

Right: view of break-out spaces and internal circulation; opposite: view of central atrium, demonstrating the design’s inherent connectivity 30 Higher Education 31 Projects LIBRARY AND STUDENT HUB AMBLESIDE CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA

The practice is architect and landscape architect for the transformation of the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside Campus. Refurbished buildings and a landscaping scheme will create a 21st- century university campus within the National Park setting. The new Library and Hub in a converted barn structure is now the social heart of the campus. The existing timber roof structure has been exposed, greatly increasing the building’s overall volume, while redesigned windows maximise natural light, creating an attractive working environment within the remodelled building. The new extension contains a timber-clad café with generous glazing providing views out over the courtyard and campus beyond.

Above: site plan; opposite above: dusk view of the Library and Hub building; opposite below: section 32 Higher Education 33 Projects

Opposite above and below: views of the varied accommodation within the building; above: daytime external view; right: view of library 34 Higher Education 35 Projects COURTAULD INSTITUTE WESTMINSTER, LONDON

The Courtauld Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art history and conservation. A detailed space planning exercise by the practice has identified how the North Wing of Somerset House can be enhanced to accommodate the Courtauld’s future development.

A key part of the Institute’s estates strategy, this study offers short, medium and long term recommendations regarding the reconfiguration of existing space and the level of investment required.

Opposite: proposed new gallery space; right: view of The Courtauld Institute across the courtyard of Somerset House; below: proposed vestibule; below right: new research centre and café 36 Higher Education 37 Projects CHARLES CARTER BUILDING LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

The award-winning Charles Carter Building forms part of the practice’s ongoing portfolio for the Lancaster University campus. The four-storey 4,000 sqm BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building has a central atrium and provides versatile learning environments for the University’s 6* Management School. The ground floor accommodates a lecture theatre, seminar rooms and a social learning space. The three upper floors house separate departments, with a range of cellular and open-plan offices for staff and postgraduates.

Opposite and right: the dramatic incised brick façade creates a distinctive new addition within the University campus; top right: campus masterplan, developed by the practice 38 Higher Education 39 Projects

Below and right: colonnade and external views 40 Higher Education 41 Projects

Above, and opposite top: views of the atrium Above: view of a typical study area 42 Higher Education 43 Projects INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED NURSING CHENNAI, INDIA

As part of an ongoing involvement with the Clinton Foundation, the practice has designed a scheme for the Indian Institute of Advanced Nursing (IIAN) in Chennai, India. This educational facility will pioneer the training of nurses caring for HIV/AIDS patients in Chennai and beyond. The campus, set in a five acre site, features world class teaching accommodation, a hall of residence, and landscaped areas and roads. The low-cost design specifies simple and maintainable construction systems and passive environmental features.

Above: 3D drawing demonstrating the layered façade treatment with colonnade. Simple construction systems and passive design features will reduce on-going costs as well as improving sustainability credentials; opposite above and below: the project’s façades are deeply shaded to protect patients and carers from the intrusion of harsh sunlight 44 Higher Education 45 Projects BLACKPOOL AND FYLDE COLLEGE BLACKPOOL

JMP’s campus-wide masterplan for Blackpool and Fylde College identified key gains: a new Student Hub, refurbished theatre, modernised teaching buildings, and an animated square as part of a landscaping scheme which addresses level changes across the site and improves movement across the campus. The new Student Hub rationalises circulation and improves accommodation. It provides a combined learning resource centre, refectory and student services facility in a contemporary BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building.

Opposite: the Hub Building’s central atrium creates visual and physical links between floors; above right: view of refurbished fabric within the historic theatre building; right: new café area within the Hub Building 46 Higher Education 47 Projects UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER PUBLIC REALM

This complex, award-winning example of urban design and landscape has provided the University of Manchester with a revitalised campus, and one which links physically, socially and visually with the city of Manchester. The design includes new building links, significant new open spaces to extend the public realm into the site, and new cycle and pedestrian routes across the campus. At the heart of the design brief was the University’s desire to reduce the sense of divide between ‘town and gown’ in this part of the city, and foster a more democratically inclusive image of higher education.

Right: the landscaped public realm has created a green haven for relaxation; below: public realm and landscape masterplan 48 Higher Education 49 Projects POST GRADUATE STATISTICS CENTRE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

This BREEAM ‘Excellent’, RIBA Award- winning building contains Lancaster University’s Postgraduate Statistics Centre, an international centre of excellence. The building is connected to an existing building by an atrium, creating a distinct ‘front door’ to the department and improving accessibility. The north- facing glazed elevation announces internal activity, the louvered south elevation mitigates summertime solar gain, and solar chimneys promote passive ventilation. The building is one of a series of ongoing and completed projects by the practice at the University, including the Learning Zone and Management School, the Charles Carter Building and the Engineering Building.

Opposite, right and below left: the project’s highly detailed façade creates visual animation and shade; below right: view of circulation and break-out space which forms the building’s central ‘heart’ 50 Higher Education 51 Projects JOHN GALSWORTHY BUILDING KINGSTON UNIVERSITY

The award-winning John Galsworthy Building is a centrally programmed teaching (CPT) facility with 70 teaching rooms of flexible size, and a total student capacity of 2,500. There are three lecture theatres, IT access space, and student/ staff social space. This building has transformed the University’s Penrhyn Road campus, and created a new public open space which has become the social heart of the University. Qualities of scale, materiality, light, space and presence set a new benchmark for the architecture of Kingston University.

Opposite and below: the project’s carefully considered fenestration creates a dramatic textural effect and new landmark for the Kingston campus; right: study model 52 Higher Education 53 Projects

Opposite and top: views of the dramatic façade; left: interior view of a light-filled break-out space 54 Higher Education 55 Projects EEE BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

The brief for this gateway Engineering, Education and Entrance building at the University of Southampton called for it to be welcoming, and to reveal its varied academic and social activities. The practice responded by designing an internal ‘street’ that can be clearly seen from outside the building and articulates its internal functionality. The ‘street’ also contributes to energy conservation, allowing a greater level of passive ventilation than is usual in buildings of this type. The internal program is based on a range of versatile, programmable teaching and study spaces. There is also a 430-seat lecture theatre and breakout spaces that are colour-coded in the equivalent of screen pixel colours.

Top: night view of the completed scheme; above: internal ‘street’ elevation; opposite: view of internal ‘street’ 56 Higher Education 57 Projects KING CHARLES BUILDING TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON

The practice has masterplanned, designed, and delivered the remodelling of the King Charles Building at the historic former Royal Naval College at Greenwich for the Trinity College of Music. Their move to the World Heritage Site consolidated their operations, with new teaching and practice rooms and the installation of the Jerwood Library. A Scheduled Ancient Monument, constructed across a century from 1664, by England’s great triumvirate of Baroque architects: Wren, Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, Trinity’s new home has become the centrepiece of the Greenwich campus.

Top: view of the King Charles Building as depicted by Antonio Canaletto, viewed from the Thames; above: as yet unrealised, the proposed glazed roof structure would create an enclosed central court at the heart of the College; right: view of the King Charles Building at Greenwich, home to the Trinity College of Music 58 Higher Education 59 Projects

Above: the project defers to the scale and grandeur of the original listed building with simple interventions, stripping away later alterations and divisions, and taking the building ‘back to its bones’; opposite above: model, in colour, illustrating key historic elements; opposite below left: construction shot; opposite below right: view of a typical new rehearsal room with the historic building 60 Higher Education 61 Projects SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

John McAslan + Partners was appointed by The School of Oriental and African Studies to develop a campus masterplan and complete the phased transformation of the Sir Denys Lasdun-designed Philips Library, providing additional reading and work spaces in the library. The scheme extended the Library onto the north and east terraces at first floor level in two double-height glazed extensions, delivering 170 additional light-filled reading and work spaces, and new support accommodation. In addition, the interior of Lasdun’s library was refurbished as part of this phased project.

Opposite: view of the new glazed terraces, creating new reading areas; right: campus model; below: section through the Library 62 Higher Education 63 Projects

Top and opposite: views of one of the new, light-filled terrace study areas; right: new reception and enquiry desks within the Library 64 Higher Education 65 Projects SOUTH TRAFFORD COLLEGE MANCHESTER

The Art and Design Centre at South Trafford College is the first built phase of the practice’s masterplan for the College campus. Teaching spaces and creative studios, plus an exhibition area, media labs and a ceramic workshop are linked by a convivial internal ‘street’. Effective use of daylight and natural ventilation are key features of both the studios and the circulation spaces. External shading mediates solar gain, but allows daylight to reach interior rooms and spaces.

Opposite: circulation area; right: view into one of the studio spaces; below: the external brise soleils mitigate solar ingress and create a protected colonnade 66 Higher Education 67 Projects SANDRA BURSLEM BUILDING MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

The practice’s first built project in the north-west, the Sandra Burslem Building, provided Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) with a new and distinct public face on the city’s Mancunian Way. This was also the first BREEAM rated university project for the practice. The building houses the University’s Law Faculty and incorporates teaching accommodation, lecture spaces and a public gallery in a seven-storey landmark building organised around a dramatic full- height atrium. The atrium and ‘floating’ lecture hall space creates the kind of volumes and ambience of Britain’s more modern and innovative courts buildings. The materials and detailing are crisp and contemporary.

Opposite: Sandra Burslem Building; right: view across Mancunian Way, the stacked floors of the Law Faculty providing a luminous presence 68 Higher Education 69 Projects

Top and opposite: the curving hull of the lecture theatre wing falls away to create a distinctive communal space; right: interior of one of the lecture theatres 70 Higher Education 71 Projects ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, WESTMINSTER, LONDON

In 2002, the practice completed the first phase of the remodelling of and extensions to the listed Royal Academy of Music, Britain’s most distinguished music conservatoire. The Heritage Lottery funded scheme included internal interventions to the 1820s Grade I listed building on York Gate, originally designed by John Nash, which has become a ‘living museum’, practice and teaching facility, and an archive centre. Within the courtyard between RAM and the York Gate building, John McAslan + Partners has designed and delivered a multi award-winning barrel-vaulted recital hall and recording studios.

Opposite: view of the recital hall and recording studios; above: view of the constrained site and the recital hall during construction; top right: view from the new addition looking towards the the York Gate building; right: campus model 72 Higher Education 73 Projects

Opposite: view of the timber-panelled and vaulted recital hall; top and above left: the exhibition space and ‘living museum’ for the Academy’s collection of historic musical instruments for Academy students; above right: night-time view highlighting the new hall’s distinctive, ‘pop-up’ form 74 Higher Education 75 Projects POLK COUNTY SCIENCE BUILDING FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE, USA

The Polk County Science Building was the largest and most complex of all the master architect Frank Lloyd Wright structures at Florida Southern College – the largest collection of Wright designed buildings anywhere. Completed in 1958, this 6,000 sqm multi-use teaching facility (incorporating the only Wright-designed planetarium) had slowly deteriorated over time and became unusable by the early 1990s. John McAslan + Partners transformed the building into a modern, multi-use teaching facility, removing later non-Wright designed extensions, re-building its decayed fabric, inserting new uses and replacing all its building systems.

Above: site plan of Wright’s campus at Florida Southern College, the Polk Building indicated; right: view of the restored building 76 Higher Education 77 Projects

Opposite top: the campus contains a unique collection of Lloyd Wright buildings dating from 1938, including the celebrated Annie Pfeiffer chapel, an important late work by Wright; opposite middle and bottom: model and section showing the reconfigured Polk Building; above: view of the restored building; left: Lloyd Wright on site with College president Dr Ludd M.Spivey in the late 1930s; student labourer on site during the original construction; bottom row: the project included replicating Wright’s stack- bonded masonry blocks 78 Higher Education 79 Projects

Opposite: view of the Planetarium; above left: the introduction of new services made a distinctive addition to the existing fabric whilst being articulated as ‘reversable’ elements; above right: typical laboratory in the refurbished building 80 Higher Education 81 Projects LIBRARIES BUILDING IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON

John McAslan + Partners designed two low-energy projects at Imperial College: the 4,000 sqm refurbishment and extension of Imperial’s Libraries Building, including a music facility, and the 12,000 sqm refurbishment of the adjoining Sherfield Building. Extensive alterations and additions to the 1960s Libraries building clarified the building’s programme, improved services, and delivered upgraded interiors and a new two-storey glazed roof extension, offering a lightness of touch in juxtaposition to the concrete panelled building below. The Music and Arts Centre now provides a 250-seat auditorium, rehearsal spaces, a gallery and offices.

Left: Imperial College Library at night; above: aerial view of model; top right: model; below: concept sketch of the unbuilt transformation of the Sherfield Building 82 Higher Education 83 Projects

Above and opposite top: views of circulation and study areas within the extended Libraries Building; opposite: the extended Libraries wing completes the College quadrangle 84 Higher Education 85 Projects

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Libraries Building (2000) King Charles Building John Galsworthy Building University of Manchester Indian Institute of Advanced Charles Carter Building Library and Student Hub Engineering Building Haiti Faculty of Sciences Imperial College, London Greenwich, London Kingston upon Thames Nursing, Chennai, India Lancaster University University of Cumbria Lancaster University Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Polk County Science Build- EEE Building Post Graduate Statistics Blackpool and Fylde College Courtauld Institute School of Chemistry The Clore Music Studios ing (2001), Florida, USA Southampton University Centre, Lancaster University London University of Edinburgh New College, Oxford

Royal Academy of Music Lancaster Health Innovation (2002) London Campus, Lancaster University

Sandra Burslem Building Geosciences Building Manchester University (2003) University of Edinburgh

South Trafford College Greater Manchester

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 86 Higher Education 87 Projects END MATTER

Libraries Building King Charles Building Indian Institute of Advanced Nursing Geosciences Building Client Imperial College Client Trinity College of Music Client Clinton Foundation Client University of Edinburgh Dates 1997 – 2000 Dates 2003 – 2007 Dates 2010 – ongoing Dates 2014 - 2020 Area 4,000 sqm Area 7,500 sqm Area - Area 20,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Waterman Partnership Ove Arup and Partners Yale University School of Nursing Arup WSP Davis Langdon & Everest Davis Langdon Montagu Evans Sandy Brown Associates Healey and Baker Arup Davis Langdon & Everest Purcell Miller Tritton, Wate Biome Haiti Faculty of Sciences Schal Client Clinton Foundation EEE Building Charles Carter Building Area: 3,700sqm Polk County Science Building Client University of Southampton Client Lancaster University Dates 2014 - 2017 Client Florida Southern College Dates 2003 – 2007 Dates 2007 – 2011 Team JMP Dates 1996 – 2001 Area 5,500 sqm Area 4,000 sqm Area 6,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners The Clore Music Studios Team John McAslan + Partners James Nisbet and Partners SKM Client New College, Oxford Lunz Prebor Fowler Anthony Ward Partnership Hoare Lea Area 380sqm Arup Parsons Brinkerhoff Gardiner & Theobald Dates 2013 - ongoing Earl Walls Associates HBG Construction Confluence PCM Team John McAslan + Partners Kvaerner Construction Ian White Associates Renaissance John Galsworthy Building Buro Happold Hoare Lea Royal Academy of Music Client Kingston University Galliford Try Arup Client Royal Academy of Music Dates 2004 – 2008 Sandy Brown Dates 1997 – 2002 Area 7,000 sqm Courtauld Institute Roland Harris Area 3,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Client Courtauld Institute of Art Barton Wilmore Team John McAslan + Partners Arup Dates 2011 – ongoing Austin Newport Ltd. Davis Langdon Nathaniel Litchfield and Partners Area 9,000 sqm Oscar Faber Dean Dyball Team John McAslan + Partners, Buro Happold, Lancaster Health Innovation Campus Gardiner & Theobald Gardiner & Theobald Client University of Lancaster Ralph Appelbaum Associates Post Graduate Statistics Centre David Bonnett Associates Area 8000 sqm Sandy Brown Associates Client Lancaster University Dates 2016 - 2019 David Bonnett Dates 2006 – 2008 Library and Student Hub Team John McAslan + Partners Simons Interiors Area 1,100 sqm Client University of Cumbria Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2012 – 2014 Sandra Burslem Building SKM Area 4,500 sqm Client Manchester Metropolitan University Anthony Hunt Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2000 – 2003 Hoare Lea Arup, Hoare Lea Area 6,000 sqm Gardiner & Theobald Faithful & Gould Team John McAslan + Partners Buro Happold Sweett Group Buro Happold Clarus Consulting Deloitte Walfords John Turner and Sons Shepherd Construction Engineering Building University of Manchester Client Lancaster University South Trafford College Client University of Manchester Dates 2012 – 2015 Client South Trafford College Dates 2007 – 2009 Area 4,750 sqm Dates 2003 – 2005 Area 60,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Area 1,800 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Curtins Consulting Team John McAslan + Partners Wright Mottershaw AECOM Shepherd Gilmore DSSR Christal Construction Management Miller Consulting Buro 4 Faithful+Gould AYH Appleyard and Trew Robinson Low Francis Seddon Construction Hellens Construction GWP Project Services

School of Oriental and African Studies Blackpool and Fylde College School of Chemistry Client School of Oriental and African Studies Client Blackpool and Fylde College Client University of Edinburgh Dates 2004 – 2006 Dates 2007 – 2009 Area: Area - Area 2,000 sqm Dates: 2014 Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team JMP, Jura Consulting Whitby & Bird SKM Parsons Brinkerhoff Anthony Hunt Madlin & Madison Arup Durkan Pudelek Gardiner & Theobald AA Projects ISG Credits Essay Jay Merrick, architecture critic Design Lisa Sjukur, April `We create architecture which improves people’s lives. We We believe that the city is one of humanity’s most aim for an architecture which is rational and poetic, robust impressive and precious cultural achievements. We also and delightful; we tread carefully and build with conviction; believe that cities are more than a collection of buildings; we tackle problems head on and think laterally; we cities are about connections, transport, communications, deconstruct the brief and let a design emerge from a close public spaces and joy. We believe in locating our buildings examination of the pieces; we don’t necessarily take ‘no’ firmly into their contexts - not as slavish repetition but for an answer; we believe the power of architecture extends as a considered response to site, materiality, amenity, much further than the dimensions of individual buildings; scale and culture. we believe architecture is about making life better. We don’t believe in the value of a house style; if we have We believe that buildings should be underpinned by a a house style it is one of process, not of form. We are powerful idea; that the idea should be an intelligent and functionalists. We believe a good building is an expression logical response to functionality and a sense of place; and of a clear and rational diagram. We believe in the value the power of that idea should be embedded in the built of research. We believe in contemporary design for a form. That way, clients get the buildings they need and changing world.’ society gets the architecture it deserves.

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