Vaux August Exhibition Boards 1-4.Pdf

VAUX PROPOSALS FOR THE FORMER VAUX BREWERY SITE Design Principles 1 The following diagrams illustrate key elements which have influenced What’s this all about? the design of the The former Vaux Brewery is a key site Keel Line masterplan: within Sunderland City Centre. The Looking at View towards the bridge: from options for proposals displayed on this board the end of the Livingstone Rd and St Mary’s Keel Line, to Street Typologies Way are for a mixed-use development connect it to the The main road running through the site will be enhanced embankment Cliff-Edge The Landscape Architects for the scheme - for pedestrians and cyclists - providing safe and green which will combine new public below and Landscape Projects, are exploring different streets which slow vehicles: spaces with restaurants, cafes, ways to treat the boundary edge, these Riverside Park: 2 3 include: office and leisure spaces. Treetop Walkway, Kew Gardens, The north west corner of the site London has been dedicated to residential

apartments with fantastic views Bollards over the Wear. Looking at options for street layout and tree planting 1. Creating a green 2. Creating an open 3. Using the edge to MP 90 The Keel Line, a pedestrian link from edge beyond the edge to make the create activity Keel Line: running from Keel DW Two grids: to connect the site Phase 1 Building Bollard the new Keel Square to the cliff- boundary most of views Square to the cliff-edge to St Mary’s Way Sloping masonry edge will connect the site with the Potential Hotel Riverside park, city centre, new (foot) Location developments at the MAC Quarter, 4 5 the High Street and the Bridges Residential 12 Cafe / Restaurant Space Shopping Centre. Quarter Built into Cliff .5

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to 284 Application due to throughout the London 278 be submitted scheme. House 11 House 10 Gilbridge VAUX/940 Early Summer 2016 Phase 1 building Illustrative Masterplan Gilbridge due to start on site VAUX/940 Option 6 Scale:1:500@A0 08.08.2015 6 Early 2018 Phase 1 building Illustrative Masterplan 8 5 due to be ready Option 5 Rev4 for occupation Scale:1:500@A0Wind Modelling03.08.2015 Mitigation required here and initial to dissipate wind flow infrastructure due Direction of wind flow for completion A prevailing wind flows west to tunnels, trees will be planted in strategic areas to dissipate Mix of uses: promotes variety Heights and massing: step east through the site, heading and allows for flexibility up in building heights from 5 out towards the sea. Where strong winds. The most storeys to 6 then 8 storeys the wind hits the cliff-edge it frequent wind speed is 5.1m tends to be pushed upwards per second. The diagrams then dips back down further show how this would travel through the proposed building Vaux Aerial - Velocity 5.1m/s (11mph) Vaux Aerial Zoomed - Velocity 5.1m/s Vaux Aerial - Velocity 5.1m/s (11mph) Vaux Bridge View - Velocity 5.1m/s (11mph) in land from the cliff edge. To Westerly (11mph) Westerly Easterly Easterly help mitigate against wind layout:

August 2015 Exhibition VAUX Site Analysis

Location

The site is located on the St Peters Sunderland south banks of the River Metro Metro Wear, just north west of St Mary’s Sunderland City Centre. Car Park

The Bridges The site was once St Mary’s Shopping Way dominated by the Vaux Centre Keel Brewery, which ceased River Wear Square operation in 1999. The historic maps below show The Site how the site has changed between the late 19th century and the late 20th century. Riverside Park

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Ordnance Survey Historic Maps © Crown Copyright 1897 1941 1970 The embankment is dominated © Crown CopyriTheght and Landmark Information Gr oup LGarrisonimited 2013 all rights reserved. This map may not be reproduced without permissi on. 64Field9314490 Parade Ground, County: DUTheRHAM Scale: 1:2,500 Date: 194 1 roads surrounding the site have by rail lines. The Vaux Brewery, Fire Station and Empire Theatre been widened to make more room founded in 1837 can be seen on can be made out on the map. for cars, eroding the tight street the site. Later, new road configurations will grids. This map shows the centre drastically change the layout of before the Bridges was built in this area. 1988.

Connections

The masterplan has been designed to maximise physical connections into and out-of the site, as well as making the most of views to the riverside.

The Keel line acts to draw people into the site as well as connect it to Keel Square, the high street, KEY University areas and MAC Quarter which is under development.

The Local Area

University of Sunderland Music, Arts and Cultural Keel Square City Campus Quarter A new public square, completed The University hosts 20,000 Incorporating the newly this year and decorated with trees, students. Buildings on the refurbished Dun Cow Pub, fountains and benches. Work has city campus include the the Londonderry and Empire started on the Keel Line, a piece Murray Library, Design Centre, Theatre. Plans will see a new of artwork, which will stretch from CitySpace Gym and Leisure square created in-front of the the new Square to the cliff-edge, Centre and the Sciences old fire station, which will be celebrating Sunderland’s maritime Complex. turned into a music and arts and industrial heritage. venue. VAUX Phase 1

1 The Brief

Building 1, together with the completed Keel Line will form the anchor for Phase 1 of the Vaux Site. The building provides a series of office floors over a publicly accessible ground floor, designed to accommodate an exciting mix of retail, café and restaurant offers. As an office building, it is aimed to attract a variety of prospective tenants, both in terms of their size and their type, environmental agenda, capital and running costs.

This results in the honest use of materials, exposed structural elements and simple but carefully considered detailing. The proposal for the building is for it to have strong horizontality on the exterior that offers opportunities for shading and intermittent opening windows. The courtyard facades, to complement this has a vertical language.

2 The Layout

The concept for the building is simple and strong. The upper levels of the building are arranged in a ‘horseshoe’ that creates an east facing open courtyard. The courtyard becomes the focus of the workplace, facing onto and framing a view of Wearmouth Bridge. The lower levels of the building are set back from the Keel Line, and are accessed off a covered, public colonnade that again overlooks the Bridge and the North Sea beyond.

3 Character

The architectural language of the building draws inspiration from the maritime and industrial heritage of the site and its adjacent riverside areas. At a large scale this can be found in the giant girder that supports the building along its front, and the ‘Liner’ like horizontal facades of the building above. At a smaller scale the building will have details, such as perforation patterns to the façade, that will reflect the manufacturing activity of Sunderland’s past.

4 Materials

In reference to the metal working associated with Sunderland’s shipbuilding and industrial heritage, the external material of the building is of a bronze/ brass appearance. It will catch the light during the day, as well as be illuminated in the evenings.

5 Environmental Agenda

The building has a strong environmental agenda. In developing the building as a healthy workplace, it is fully naturally ventilated and passively cooled. The verdant courtyard at the heart of the building lets fresh air deep into its core. Opening windows are provided throughout, and generous floor to ceiling heights both help the natural ventilation as well as allow daylight deep into the building. Exposed concrete ceilings provide ‘Thermal Mass’ that helps keep the building warm in winter and cool in summer. VAUX Phase 1

Phase 1 Visualisation

Phase 1 Infrastructure and Meanwhile Uses

The diagram on the right shows the infrastructure which New footpath Temporary footpath will be constructed as along cliff-edge to connect to part of the first phase of Temporary hard Cumberland/ development. landscaping Matlock Street

One of the key principles New road of the development will into the be to make sure the site scheme is attractive and being used during the early construction phases. These spaces will be landscaped and open Meanwhile Use for people to enjoy Spaces to articulate or hold events and Temporary soft journey from centre to Permanent exhibitions- examples of landscaping Phase 1 building how these spaces could landscaping be used are detailed below:

1 2 3 Events & Landscaping & Temporary Exhibition Growing Spaces Structures Spaces

Garden of 10.000 Bridges, West 8, Xi’an 15 Knots, ATLAS and Forbes Lipschitz, BOXPARK: Food, Drink and Fashion Pop- International Horticulture Exhibition, Jardins de Metis International Garden Up, Shoreditch, London China Festival

Pop-up Airstream gig at Ouseburn Flow Line, Michael McGillis, Auvergne, Pop-up Beer Garden in Philadelphia Festival 2014 France © M. Fishetti/VISIT PHILADELPHIA™

View Tube: Exhibition Centre, Olympic Reaseheath College garden, Dig the Roker Pods, Marine Walk, Sunderland Park, London City 2015, Manchester City Centre

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