Key Services:
Access Audits, Architects' Service & Fee Advice, Brief Writing, Building Maintenance, Building Management, Building Services Engineering, Building Technology, Cladding & Facade Design, Client Advisor, Community Development, Community Planning & Participation, Conservation & Restoration, Construction Management, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Cost Estimating, Design & Build, Design for Special Needs, Feasibility Studies, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Fund Raising Advice, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Lottery/Grant Bid Advice, Master Planning, Party Wall Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Refurbishment, Rights of Light Advice, Valuations, Value Engineering | | | Awards:
Young Architect of the Year 2008
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Chelsea Open Air Nursery is a landmark nursery school housed in historic cluster of buildings just off Londons Kings Road. The nursery was in need of modernisation and wanted to make better use of the available space and create a new classroom. After consultation with staff, users and the local authority, Friend and Company came up with a scheme that brings light and space to the interior and gives architectural expression to the nursery's philosophy of play in the open air.
Close collaboration with the Head Teacher, Kathryn Solly, continued throughout the design process. Numerous options were developed and costed prior to presentations to the Board of Governors and the Local Authority. Phase 1 consists of a new green classroom that sits beneath the canopy of a 1930s extension. Built from an elegant steel box, the classroom appears as a separate element to the existing brick building completed in 2006. A storage wall of different sized doors was added to provide easy access to equipment. A previously dark corridor was transformed into a light-filled interior landscape of ramps to connect different areas of the nursery with the garden. Phase 2 completed in 2010, provides a Treehouse Classroom and a learning link (a bridge to connect the new space to an existing lift).
Phase 3 includes further enhancements the result of an Access Report and a Climate Audit, both of which secured further funding.
Head teacher Kathryn Solly MA says about working with Friend and Company Architects:
Adrian Friend and his company have worked in close partnership with Chelsea Open Air Nursery School and Children’s Centre for the last seven years. This partnership has included consultation with all parties including children, staff, families and governors, design and project management of the internal re development of our unique building which dates from 1587. It also has parts which date from the 18th century and the 1940’s. Their work has also developed areas of the building to create our children’s centre. All these works have been in challenging and cramped spaces.
Adrian and his team understand children and schools. They recognise the need for the environment to be a ‘teacher’ and hence create living spaces which are creative and yet environmentally friendly too. They are cheerful, positive people who go the extra mile in order to make a real difference. I thoroughly recommend them.
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Key Services:
Architects' Service & Fee Advice, Art & Architecture, Client Advisor, Community Development, Community Planning & Participation, Cost Estimating, Cultural Design Specialist, Drawing Service, Ecological Architecture, Energy / Environmental Expertise, Energy Surveys, Environmental Impact Analysis, Full Architectural Service, Landscape Design, Lottery/Grant Bid Advice, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Quantity Surveying, Reclamation, Rural Planning & Design, Surveying, Sustainable Design, Systems Building, Urban Planning & Design, Value Engineering | | | Awards:
2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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Inspired by the flight pattern of a spinning bat, the Bat Spiral is a dynamic, floating spiral of beams that accommodates roosts for the 17 British species. Raised on a cluster of thin bars, which resemble a bed of reeds the Twenty-four roost types are positioned within the biocomposite spiral as if they were the spokes of a wheel to maximise heat gain from the sun except for the Greater Horse Shoe Bats summer roost, that are insulated and kept at a constant temperature by earth pipes. Specially designed incubators keep this species winter roost a constant temperature. |
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| 7: Project Name | Artist House |
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| Dates: | 2009 - (ongoing) | | Location: | London | | Gross Area: | 100 to 249 sqm | Sectors:
Houses and Housing - Conversion & Extensions, Houses and Housing - Extension, Houses and Housing - One-off Houses, Houses and Housing - Renovation | | |
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Acoustics, Art & Architecture, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Cladding & Facade Design, Lightweight Structures, Listed Building Advice, Party Wall Advice, Refurbishment, Self Build, Valuations | | | Description:
A reinvention of an existing artist’s studio to create a large portrait studio and flexible living workspace. Designed to be effortlessly reconfigured from studio to dinning space for entertaining guests, a swivel workbench rotates 90 degrees to form a dining table and then a further 180 degrees to enclose the under-stair library for gallery openings and events. Beneath the mezzanine is a cosy library and sitting area with underfloor heating via a concrete floor in new bathroom, kitchen and studio. The extension steel fabricated monocoque is completed by the sae artist workshop that makes sculpture for artist Anish Kapoor.
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| 8: Project Name | Darlaston Swimming Pool |
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| Dates: | 1996 - 2001 | | Location: | Darlaston | | Gross Area: | 2,000 to 4,999 sqm | Sectors:
Community Participation, Education - Special Needs, Sport - Health Clubs, Sport - Leisure Centres, Sport - Specialist Sports Clubs, Sport - Swimming Pools | | |
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Community Development, Community Planning & Participation, Full Architectural Service | | | Awards:
2001 RIBA Awards
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While an associate at Hodder Associates, Adrian Friend was responsible for leading the design of Darlaston Swimming pool in Walsall. The project, which won an RIBA Award, was funded by the Sports Lottery fund and played a key role in the regeneration of Darlaston, a town that was once the heart of manufacturing in the Black Country.
The architecture is derived from the building’s hilltop setting and by the desire to bring daylight into all the public spaces. The building consists of three main elements: an elegant, soaring folded timber roof clad in stainless steel, a curved red brick wall which wraps around one side and a 30m entrance ramp routing the building in the landscape and facilitating disabled access.
The folded timber roof encloses the pool hall and combined with the clerestorey glazing provides an open, light filled environment.
The main 25 metre x 13 metre pool has seven lanes and is approved by the Amateur Swimming Association for competitions. Alongside it is a 13 metre x 7 metre instructional pool with full disabled access.
The curved red brick wall houses the changes rooms, providing privacy and a sense of security whilst allowing light to enter from above. On the outside it orients visitors and guides them from the car park to the main entrance. Slot windows along the length of the wall offer natural surveillance of the car park from the heart of the centre. A red engineering brick was chosen to reflect the local industrial heritage and civic architecture.
The entrance ramp in taking the visitor from street level to the hilltop main entrance, initiates a sequence of oblique views through the building intended to gradually reveal a composite picture of activities inside.
Darlaston Swimming Pool funded by £4M from Sport England lottery money awarded in 1996
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