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Green Futures for Old Buildings Sustainable
Refurbishment of the Higher Education
Estate Building Design Partnership 20 June 2007
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Kings College London Strand Campus

• The situation of Kings College is bad, very
  bad!... In a moral point of view the proposed
  siteis probably the very worst that could have
  been selected in the whole metropolisIt is
  within about a five minutes walk of five
  theatres!
• Mechanics Magazine, November 1829

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The Masterplan

• Context and identity
• Public Space / Private Street
• Orientation and efficient circulation
• Appropriate use
• Adaptation, extension or redevelopment
• Sustainability and energy conservation
• flexible master planning frameworks .......
• ..... supporting future change

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The Masterplan - site strategies heating,
cooling, rainwater harvesting
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The Masterplan

• Age and condition
• Quality of accommodation
• Flexibility and efficiency
• Cost effective... Adapt or redevelop?
• Life cycle costs
• Sustainable options
• Issues impacting on all buildings .
• .1970s concrete and 1830s historic buildings

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Phase 1 The Kings Building

• 1830s Grade I Listed Building
• Designed by Sir Robert Smirke Architect of the
  British Museum
• Significant modification and adaptation
• Densely populated tertiary campus
• . illegible, inefficient and
  uneconomic

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Phase 1 The Kings Building

• Reordering and transforming spaceclarity,
  legibility and efficiency
• Clarifying orientation and circulationhorizontal
  and vertical connectivity
• Defining appropriate useteaching, social
  departmental office facilities
• Developing sustainable solutionsutilising
  natural ventilation and limiting mechanical
  services
• strategic development framework ..
• ..South Range Project implemented

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Reordering and transforming
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Orientation and circulation

• Horizontal connectivity

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Orientation and circulation

• Visual routes
• Horizontal circulation Vertical connectivity

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Orientation and circulation

• Visual routes
• Horizontal circulation Vertical connectivity

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Appropriate Use

• Levels 0 and 1 lecture and seminar spaces
• Levels 2 and 3 social and recreational spaces
• Levels 4 to 7 departmental office facilities

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Phase 1 The Kings Building
Levels 0 and 1 lecture and seminar spaces
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Levels 0 and 1 lecture and seminar spaces
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Phase 1 The Kings Building
Levels 2 and 3social and recreational spaces
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Levels 2 and 3social and recreational spaces
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Levels 2 and 3social and recreational spaces
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Levels 4 to 7 departmental office space
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Levels 4 to 7 departmental office space
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Sustainable solutions

• Energy conservation .
• .. simple, passive technologies
• Natural light
• Natural ventilation
• Thermal mass
• .. limiting mechanical services
• Building conservation
• Limiting risers and distribution
• Integrating building services

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Sustainable solutions

• Natural light and natural ventilation
• Solar shading, glare and blackout
• Limiting mechanical ventilation and
  coolingthermal mass and mixed modes

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Sustainable solutions

• Maximising natural daylight
• Task and background lighting
• Low energy fittings

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Sustainable solutions

• Minimising risers, integrating services
• Installation
• Maintenance
• Future adaptation

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Phase 2 The Strand Building

• Iconic, 1970s Brutalist concrete building
• Strategic development framework
• Academic hotel to upper levels
• Solar shading, thermal mass and limited cooling

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Phase 2 The Strand Building

• .. simple, passive technologies
• Solar shading
• Utilising thermal mass
• Improved thermal performance
• Varied levels of internal environment
• Openable windows /chilled beams
• User controls

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Phase 2 The Strand Building
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Phase 2 The Strand Building
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Adapting our build environment

• UCL Student centred learning environments
• Royal Borough of Kensington Chelsea Central
  Library People centred study environments
• British Museum Visitor centred and object
  orientated environments
• Palace of Westminster User and visitor centred
  public facilities