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Media Information New University of the Arts London Campus Central Saint Martins at King’S Cross Media Information © 2011 New University of the Arts London Campus Central Saint Martins at King’s Cross Project Description October 2011 To the north of King’s Cross and St Pancras International railway stations, 67-acres of derelict land are being transformed in what is one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration projects. The result will be a vibrant mixed-use quarter, at the physical and creative heart of which will be the new University of the Arts London campus, home of Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Stanton Williams’ design for the £200m new campus unites the college’s activities under one roof for the first time. It provides Central Saint Martins with a substantial new building, connected at its southern end to the Granary Building, a rugged survivor of the area’s industrial past. The result is a state-of-the-art facility that not only functions as a practical solution to the college’s needs but also aims to stimulate creativity, dialogue and student collaboration. A stage for transformation, a framework of flexible spaces that can be orchestrated and transformed over time by staff and students where new interactions and interventions, chance and experimentation can create that slip-steam between disciplines, enhancing the student experience. The coming together of all the schools of Central Saint Martins will open up that potential. The design aims to maximise the connections between departments within the building, with student and material movement being considered 3-dimensionally, as a flow diagram North to South, East to West, and up and down – similar in many ways to how the grain was distributed around the site using wagons and turntables. King’s Cross offered a unique opportunity: a large site within what promises to be a creative and cultural hub, connected (via King’s Cross Station and the restored St Pancras International) not only to the rest of Britain but also to mainland Europe, plus the chance to develop a robust contemporary architectural response to the boldness of the existing buildings on the site. The Granary Building itself has been restored as the main ‘front’ of the college, facing a new public square that steps down to the Regent’s Canal. The building was designed in 1851 to receive grain from the wheat fields of Lincolnshire, unloaded here from railway wagons onto canal boats for onward transport to the capital’s bakeries. It comprises a solid, six-storey cubic mass, with an unadorned, 50-metre wide brick elevation, extended to 100-metres by office additions flanking the building. To the north, located one to each side of the Granary Building, are two parallel 180 metres long Transit Sheds. The design strategy retains the Granary Building, adapted to include functions such as the college’s library, while the Eastern Transit Shed behind is converted to create spectacular workshops for the college. Within the street-level openings of the Western Transit Shed, new shops and bars will add further life to the area. The historic horse stables below the Eastern Transit Sheds have been transformed to new cycle stores for students and staff. © 2011 2 The bulk of the college’s accommodation, however, is located in a major addition to the site, two substantial new studio buildings that occupy the space between the two transit sheds and which, at the North end of the site present a contemporary elevation to the surrounding area. The scale of the new addition responds closely to that of the Granary Building, essentially continuing its massing along the length of the site. It rises above the level of the transit sheds, using contemporary materials so that it will stand, beacon-like, as a symbol of the college’s presence within this rapidly-evolving part of London. The two new four storey studio buildings are arranged at either side of a covered central ‘street’, some 110m long, 12m wide and 20m high, covered by a translucent ETFE roof and punctuated by a regular rhythm of service cores that accommodate lifts, stairs and toilets. At the northern end, a new centre for the Performing Arts will house a fully equipped theatre complete with fly-tower as well as rehearsal and teaching spaces. The internal ‘street’ has been conceived as a dynamic area, an arena for student life, akin to the much-loved stair at the centre of the college’s previous main building. Bridges linking the various cores and workspaces cross it, offering break-out areas for meeting, relaxing and people-watching and exchanging ideas. The street will be used for exhibitions, fashion shows and performances, the spaces being large enough to build temporary pavilions for example. Viewing points allow students to watch others working or performing, and the work of other disciplines can be seen and exhibited. At the southern end of the new block and running parallel with the north end of the Granary Building is a second covered ‘street’, offering public access through this part of the building interior. Lifts rising through this space recall the vertical movement of grain, which gave the complex its original purpose. Flooring details either retain existing turntables or hint at their historic location, while within the Granary Building itself, the hoists have been retained, crowning a newly inserted lightwell. Simple glazing maintain the integrity of the unbroken openings, rhythmically punctuating the Granary Building’s main façade. The new University of the Arts London campus is one of the first parts of the King’s Cross development to be completed. As such, it not only provides Central Saint Martins with the flexible and dynamic spaces that it needs to educate and develop the artists and designers of the future, but also makes a firm statement of the role of the Arts in the quarter, to which it will give critical mass and energy. © 2011 3 Project Details Facts and Figures The £200m campus brings together 4,000 Central Saint Martins students and 1,000 staff under one roof. It is made up of: • 10 acres of floor space • Over 1.3 million timber blocks • Enough concrete to fill eight Olympic swimming pools The three-storey building is based around an internal street, naturally lit through a translucent roof. It contains four levels of multi-purpose workshops and specialist studios, including: • Performance design and practice labs • Casting, wood fabrication and metal fabrication workshops • Post-production workshops • Film, effects and sound studios • Architecture and spatial studios • Fashion and textiles studios • Photography studios and darkrooms • Product and industrial design studios • Graphic and communication design studios • Jewellery workshops • Art studios The campus is also home to a 350 seat public theatre with its own entrance. It occupies the Grade II listed Granary Building, built in 1851, which managed the storage and distribution of grain at the height of the Victorian industrial boom. It faces onto Granary Square which, when completed in June 2012, will be one of London’s largest public squares The campus has been designed by architects Stanton Williams and forms part of King’s Cross, a 67 acre development in central London – a new piece of the city with a brand new postcode, London N1C. King’s Cross is being developed by the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership, which brings together Argent Group, London & Continental Railways and DHL Supply Chain. © 2011 4 Project Details Key Values Project Value: £200M (based on cost of land, building, fit-out and expansion incl. third floor) Key dates Construction Start date: January 2008 Completion Date: April 2011 Date of Occupation: August 2011 Construction phase: January 2008 - August 2011 (Incl. fit-out) Student arrival: 3rd October 2011 Building Details Postal Address: Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London, N1C 4AA Gross Internal Area: approx. 40,000m2 Design team Site Developer: Argent Tenant: University of the Arts London Architect: Stanton Williams Structure: Scott Wilson Environmental / M&E engineering: Atelier 10 Architectural lighting: Spiers and Major Quantity Surveyor / Employer’s Agent: Davis Langdon Landscape Architect: Townsend Landscape Architects. Facade consultant: Arup Facades Engineering CDM coordinator: Scott Wilson. Contractor team – base build Main contractor: Bam Construction Limited Contractor’s Architect: Bam Design (new buildings) / Weedon Partnership (Granary) Conservation Architect: Richard Griffiths Architects Structure: Bam Design (new buildings) AKS Lister Beare (existing structure) M&E engineering: Bam Design Fire consultant: Aecom Acoustic consultant: Sandy Brown Associates Access consultant: All Clear Design Contractor team – fit-out Contractor: Overbury Interior fit-out Architect: Pringle Brandon M&E consultant: AECOM Fire consultant: AECOM Theatre consultant: Drama by Design Acoustic consultant: Sandy Brown Associates © 2011 5 Notes to Editors Architects: Stanton Williams Stanton Williams is an award winning international architectural practice based in London. The firm has developed its portfolio from an initial focus on museums and galleries towards a wide variety of projects, all of which demonstrate the practice’s over-arching objective of putting the user’s experience of space, light and materials at the forefront of the agenda. Projects include: Tower Hill, the recently completed Sainsbury Laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s botanical gardens and the Hackney Marshes Centre. Current projects include: the Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Grand Musée d’Art de Nantes and the Eton Manor site for the London Olympics 2012. “It has been a privilege to work on such an ambitious scheme that will bring life back to the Granary Complex. Our design draws inspiration from the ambition and scale of its Victorian architectural setting and introduces a strong contemporary intervention that celebrates the juxtaposition of old and new in its detailing. The thought of 4,000 students inhabiting this once redundant and isolated building on a daily basis is breathtaking.
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