oaklands residential scheme, aj buildings library
DESCRIPTION
Oaklands College is a Grade II listed post-war former educational campus in the centre of St. Albans. After the college moved to new premises the site was bought by Fairview New Homes for redevelopment into housing. New apartment blocks were planned in a campus arrangement across the site that contained over two hundred mature trees, as if a parkland. A design language was derived from a central group of retained and listed buildings. Adopting the rectilinear building shape and by adding layers in an additive approach, we arrived with a building design that responded to its setting within the listed campus. The buildings use a restrained palette of natural materials – grey terracotta, zinc and cedar – to complement and echo the elegant and glassy listed building group.TRANSCRIPT
Oaklandsby John Pardey ArchitectsSt. Albans, Hertfordshire (2011)
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
Residential retrofit of the former Oaklands College in St Albans with the addition of 15 new apartment blocks within the listed campus
DataBegun Apr 2008
Completed Jul 2011
Floor area 17,297m2
Sector Residential
Total cost £22.9M
Procurement Design & Build
Address St. Peters Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1
3RX, United Kingdom
Professional teamArchitect John Pardey Architects
Client Nicholas King Homes
Structural engineer Barton Engineers
M&E consultant Hoare Lea
Approved building inspector Assent Building Control
Main contractor NK Homes
Conservation consultant Mervyn Miller
Facade consultant Cladtech
Landscape consultant Mark Cooper Associates
Arboricultural consultant CBA Trees
Ecological consultant Nature Matters
Sustainability consultant Faber Maunsell
Accessibility consultant Penton, Smart + Grimwade
CDM coordinator Bridge Security
Quantity surveyor NK Homes
Project manager NK Homes
Photographs
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
Photo credits: Andy Matthews
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
Drawings
Location plan
Site plan
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
Plans
Site section
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk
Working Details
Facade and floor detail
Facade and floor detail
AJBuildingsLibrary.co.ukAJBuildingsLibrary.co.uk