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The Aberdyfi Estuary is situated on the southern
coast of the
Skidelsky Building. (click for more pictures) Brighton College is an independent school
providing education for all groups from Pre-prep to Sixth
Form. This project is for a new building within the Brighton College
site to house the new Lower School, provide new classrooms and upgrade
the Design and Technology department.
Lex Walsall. (click for more pictures) Shortlisted from over 100 entries in an open RIBA
competition our scheme for Lex Walsall was finally placed second. Our
project put public space at the heart of the project and gave back the
waterfront to a waterpark. Client Urban Splash.
National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool. (click for more pictures) Continuing our theme of near misses. Our proposal
for the National Wildflower Centre was shortlisted to one of six
entries from 144 entries in
an open RIBA
competition. The design aims to be made from the site itself. The domes
are constructed from predominantly site materials to minimise costs and
to promote a healthy building which reduces environmental impacts
and stimulates the local economy through the self build
potential. The design is a series of intersecting domes using
unfired clay timbrel vaulting, the forms recall plant forms and natural
geometries.
The form of the new building within the context of the market square aims to complete the urban fabric of the square rather than competing with the pavilion qualities of the adjacent old Town Hall and the bell-tower of the nearby 17th century church.
The various aspects of the site due to the building configuration, the river, the lake and the adjacency with the park provide the basis for a set of landscape zones.
A key aspect of the design is the design of the roofscape which is envisaged as a usable garden linking the upper floors of the building and breaking up the floor plates with light and external spaces. Threading through this garden is a terrace and viewing platform providing views to the river and back across the river.
Visually the house has been ‘split’ into two joined by a fully glazed transparent entrance space. This division assists with breaking down the visual mass of the house whilst also allowing for a private aspect to the accommodation, useful for a young growing family.
This study examines a site on the edge of an
existing sports ground and golf course and proposes a new building with
minimum visual impact.
A
new extension to Ladyman Barn, Aldbury Herts. Our solution seeks to
enhance the garden setting of Ladyman Barn. The design provides new
living accommodation with minimal impact on local character and visual
amenity as well as local ecology. This is further enhanced by providing
a fully planted flat roof which will maintain the current garden area.
Located
in a brownfield site behind the high street, this proposal creates a
pair of mews houses. They are low and long and arranged to maximise
solar aspect and to create privacy. The plots are defined by extending
the wall of the houses. The houses are designed to exploit
structurallly insulated panel construction. A technology providing
large prefabricated panels which are assembled on site.
Brighton College asked KFM to prepare a study for
bringing together musical activities on the school site. The
requirement for an acoustic which is good for amplified and acoustic
music led us to investigate a shaped ceiling surface.
The
ceiling is designed to achieve the acoustic, structural, mechanical and
lighting performance in one high quality prefabricated element. Wood
and the craft of carpentry are historically associated to making
music and we hope the development of the roof design would make an
architectural element with many of the properties of a good musical
instrument.
The house is situated on a steep slope of meadowland and is bounded on two sides by mature conifer trees. The project is in pre-planning stage. The house is designed to use local natural materials, predominantly those found on the site. The primary structure for the roof is constructed from the existing conifer resource the walls are rendered straw bail.
The music box is a 6x10m space with a capacity of
over 60 people. This creates a new temporary multi- purpose
function room providing a space which is identifiably new within the
Victorian grounds.
The design is for a new housing development
situated on the eastern boundary of Berkhamsted. The site is adjacent
to the northern edge of the Grand Union Canal and is bounded by the
main NE railway line. The proposal will include approx. 18 apartments.
The site has had a contentious planning history principally concerning
the density and visual impact of previous planning applications. We
have attempted to provide a solution that seeks to promote local
construction and materials as well as low ecological footprint.
The
Drakelow site is located to the north of Kidderminster in the West
Midlands and houses a 2500m2 subterranean complex. The complex was
tunneled in during world war 2 to accommodate a shadow factory
producing Bristol Hercules aero engines. With the site now
decommissioned and in private ownership an opportunity has come about
to restore this facility and surrounding landscape. Our proposal for
the Drakelow site puts sustainable communities goals into action by
developing a unique training campus combining practical training skills
for disadvantaged people within an environment in balance with the
existing ecology.
This project is a study to retrofit low-energy systems to an existing farmhouse in Hertfordshire. The existing farm is a 1920's construction with poor insulation and high running costs. Our study proposes re-cladding the structure with high performance insulation and installing solar heating, biomass heating and a ground source heat pump. The re planning of the interior separates winter spaces and summer spaces to allow the house to expand and contract seasonally .
KFM were invited to submit a design proposal as
part of a bid for the
design services for the relocation of the council of Amersham. Our
proposal sought to link the new council offices and youth centre with
the existing maltings, which is now converted to use by a number of
small businesses.
This house for a young family is situated within Childrey village in Oxfordshire. The small site is fully enclosed within an historic brick garden wall. The clients seek to establish an ecologically sound design that will aim towards a zero carbon emission goal. The house will primarily use strawbail and green timber construction all sourced locally. The design seeks to retain and enhance the
traditional garden wall. The house is single story to minimise
the visual impact and is horizontal to incorporate a planted roof. The
planting will include local species of wild flowers and will be
designed to extend the flora and fauna capacity of the site.
This new student residence is conceived as a
scholastic village, and is designed as a ‘muro verso valle’ molded to
the contours of its hilltop site.
This proposal for Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire
will include 12 duplex apartments within a 4-story block. We are aiming
to achieve target density rates of above 80 units per hectare. Although
high, we are ensuring that all apartments have access to private
gardens. By making use of normally redundant roof surfaces we are able
to provide private outdoor gardens equivalent in size to Victorian
terraced housing at greater densities.
The Pavilion will serve three prep schools and be available for local clubs out of hours. The building responds to the parkland setting through a landscape treatment collecting the various paths of the park together. The design is orientated to have the social areas opening out onto the landscape and a decked terrace with the changing and kitchen facilities toward the back of the building.
The proposal presented aims to remove as far as is possible the physical boundaries that would come between the visitor and the natural environment in a safe, comfortable and economic way. Traditionally mountain refuges are solid heavy buildings which make little or no use of natural daylight, solar heat gain or affords a visible link with the surroundings. Our project creates a large transparent tensile structure which creates a protecting barrier to wind, snow and rain whilst maintaining external views.
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