Projects [1999 - 2015] Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor RAIAB Arch (Hons), BA (Arch)

Projects1999 - 2015

A registered architect in Australia, previously with McGlashan Everist, I have been practising in the UK for over 10 years; first with Bauman Lyons Architects, and most recently as Associate with Lathams and DKMY Architects.

My interest in architecture sparked as an 11 year old. I used to draw up plans on graph paper for my parents’ retirement house on rainy days in the caravan on their rural block. Bill Mollison’s Permaculture book was my design guide.

From my first project as an architectural assistant with Spowers, a landmark sustainable building for the Australian Conservation Foundation, to the brownfield housing scheme I designed in Burton upon Trent, the principles of sustainability and quality of life, and a considered approach of simplicity and materiality have defined my approach to architecture and design ever since.

I really believe in architecture as a craft, both in its conceptual development and in its physical realisation.

I have put together Projects as a little taster of my architecture, urbanism and public realm work over the years in the UK and Australia. Overall it is intended to demonstrate both the breadth and quality of my experience.

I have detailed my experience on each project whether it be designing, coordinating, detailing or running it on site.

If you would like to get in touch, please drop me a line.

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Projects1999 - 2015

Jeremy Taylor RAIA

Published: October 2015Republished: 11.4.2016, 22.4.2016

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Victoria Mews | Burton upon TrentBrownfield residential development

Mixed Use Development | BelperHealth-led World Heritage Site community development

Mixed Use Development | WokinghamLeisure-led masterplan with retail + residential

Extra Care | Derbyshire4 No. Extra Care Developments

Town Hall | Hebden BridgeRenovation & new workspaces to the Grade II listed town hall

Church View | DoncasterRenovation and extension into managed workspaces

Spa Envrions | BridlingtonCoastal public realm scheme

Tower Works | LeedsRegeneration of the Grade II/II* listed Tower Works site

The Hut | CastlefordYouth Centre and Skills College

Marshalls Mill | LeedsNew offices on the site of Grade II* listed Marshalls Mill

Fruit Market | HullCompetition winning mixed use regenration scheme

The Terrace Cultural Quarter | LincolnManaged workspaces for creative industries

Digital Media Centre | BarnsleyManaged workspaces for digital startups

Eveleigh Avenue | Blue Mountains | AustraliaSpeculative single dwelling

Mazda Showroom | Melbourne | AustraliaFlagship showroom and service centre

60L Green Building | Melbourne | AustraliaLandmark sustainable office building

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Victoria Mews | Burton upon Trent

Lathams 2014 - 2015

Sensitive but contemporary brownfield residential development of 47 dwellings set around a landscaped community square. It was nice to be able to take a progressive approach to urban design with this scheme.

Client: Private Business.Cost: £6M Area: 4,700m2.Completion: To full planning application 2015.Input: RIBA Stages 0 to 3. Role: Lead consultant & lead designer.

The existing site is an inner-urban industrial estate which is becoming ever surrounded by new housing developments, and represents a natural and sustainable location for housing.

I worked closely with Re-form Landscape Architecture to develop a strong concept and identity for the main square and public realm. I developed 6 key principles which informed the design:1. Work with the prevailing urban grain, density, and layout;2. Reinforce the street frontage to Victoria Crescent;3. Create a permeable, legible development;4. Reinforce vistas into the site;5. Create a distinctive pedestrian-friendly public space at the heart of the development.6. Design a contemporary housing offer that sits comfortably in its context and which provides well proportioned and light internal spaces.

CGI: View of central square

CGI: Aerial view

CGI: View of main street frontage

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Site Plan

Section: 3 Bed Dwelling Plans: 3 Bed Dwelling

CGI: View into development CGI: View of central square

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Mixed Use Development | Belper

Lathams 2014 -2015

Mixed-use scheme including care and community facilities in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. This included the sensitive retention of an important heritage asset, creation of a new public square, extra care, specialist care, health, library and a community hall.

Client: Derbyshire County Council.Cost: £23.5M Area: 10,500m2.Completion: To outline planning 2015.Input: RIBA Stages 0 to 2. Role: Lead consultant & lead designer.

This scheme is situated on the site of a former blouse factory. Integrating the existing heritage asset and building on the town’s urban grain, the design gained outline planning permission with strong endorsements from the community and statutory heritage consultees.

My role as lead consultant and lead designer included brief development amongst a multi-headed client team, feasibility, engagement and coordination of consultants including the heritage impact assessment, masterplanning, design, public consultation, preparation and submission of the plannning application.

Belper has a passionate and organised community, and it feels like a real success to gain their endorsement.

CGI: Long view of building massing in context

Section: Conceptual sketch of proposed scheme

CGI: Schematic street level view

CGI: Schematic view of proposed new public square

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“Historic England welcomes this scheme which represents an imaginative response to development of a derelict site.”

Historic England Planning Consultation Endorsement

“The proposed re-development, regeneration... and the arrangement of buildings to existing and proposed spaces are conceived to a high standard.”

Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site PartnershipPlanning Consulation Endorsement CGI: Schematic aerial view

Site Plan

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Mixed Use Development | Wokingham

Lathams 2015

The Carnival Pool Leisure Redevelopment in Wokingham involves the regeneration of a large-grained edge to a fine-grained market town. The proposals include a detailed planning application for a multi-storey car park (MSCP) with a 10 pin bowling facility incorporated at ground floor, plus outline planning for a leisure and associated retail extension to an existing pool facility, plus a residential component.

Client: Wokingham Borough CouncilCost: £33M Area: 26,000m2.Completion: Planning 2015.Input: RIBA Stages 2 to 3. Role: Lead designer

The MSCP acts as a parking gateway and backdrop to the town, and is connected to the town centre via a new pedestrian route activated by leisure and retail facilities as well as a residential element to create a balanced mixed-use neighbourhood.

My role was initially to lead the design of the MSCP and bowling alley, however it was expanded to include the resolution of the overall masterplan for the site. The biggest challenge was to try and integrate a large alien structure in a low scale market town. The concept was to clad the MSCP in a soft timber veil to act as a natural backdrop and place it on a masonry colonnade to create a more human scale at street level.

CGI: View of MSCP entry

Concept sketch: Access & movement

CGI: Aerial view

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LegendA Res & ComB ResC Res & ComD LeisureE Com & RetailF Exist. PoolG Lesiure & MSCPH MSCP

Concept: Veil Concept: Plinth Concept: Relief & beacons Concept: Green screen

Primary elevation of MSCP

CGI: New pedestrian promenade CGI: Bowling alley entry

Illustrative Masterplan

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Extra Care | Derbyshire

Lathams 2012 -2015

4 no. Extra Care developments comprising 256 supported apartments and daycare facilities in Chesterfield, Clay Cross, Alfreton, and Cotmanhay.

Client: Together Housing.Cost: £30M. Area: 27,300m2 over 4 developments.Completion: 2014-2015.Input: RIBA Stages 1 to 2, 4 to 5. Role: Technical Delivery, Revit BIM and contractor liaison. Cotmanhay Stages 1 to 2 - Lead designer.

As part of a consortium with Together Housing and Wilmott Dixon, the delivery of these Extra Care developments was a key part of Derbyshire County Council’s affordable housing provision for the ageing population.

My role on the Chesterfield, Clay Cross and Alfreton buildings was the technical delivery and detailing using Revit BIM. My role on Cotmanhay was as lead designer.

I successfully adapted to the Revit software, and in time was able to use its benefits for coordinating the documentation of 3 large facilities.

I was able to take the learning from the first 3 schemes and improve the design approach taken on Cotmanhay upon which I completed the Stage 2 design.

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Sketch CGI: Cotmanhay Extra Care aerial; Cotmanhay Site Concept

Cotmanhay Ground Floor Plan; Sketch CGI: Cotmanhay perspective

Photo: Cressy Fields completion; Photo: Clay Cross completion; and

Photo: Foolow Court completion.

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Town Hall | Hebden Bridge

Bauman Lyons Architects 2010 - 2011

Conversion and new build workspaces, conference hall and community facilities to Grade II listed town hall.

Client: Hebden Bridge Community Association.Cost: £3.0M Area: 2,200m2.Completion: 2012.Input: RIBA Stages E to K (4 to 5). Role: Lead consultant, technical delivery using ArchiCAD BIM, contract administration.

The aim of the development was to retain and enhance the Town Hall’s role within the town, providing a hub for local community services and information, a centre for democracy and local decision making, a facility that can host community and private functions and a creative centre that supports local enterprise.

I became involved in the project after planning approval. My role was to act as lead consultant, coordinate the design team and prepare the technical documentation for a traditional contract tender in a short time frame. This was the first project in which I delivered the technical documentation as a 3D BIM model. This assisted greatly in coordinating the complex building forms, structure and systems.

I coordinated the tender process with the QS and then was responsible for the contract admisitration and working with the contractor on site.

Photo: Completed building view from St George’s Street bridge

Photo: Completed building view from Packhorse bridge

CGI: View from Packhorse bridge

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CGI: View from St George’s Street bridge

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Conversion to Creative Industries Managed Workspaces.The renovation and rejuvenation of this former school adjacent the Doncaster Minster represents a great integration of restoration and creative reuse with contemporary remodelling and adaptations.

Client: Doncaster Central Deveopment Trust.Cost: £6.4M Area: 4,800m2.Completion: March 2011.Input: RIBA Stages B to L (1 to 6). Role: Co-designer with BLA director, lead consultant.

Church View involves the creative reuse of the former Doncaster College, involving demolition of ad-hoc classroom extensions, restoration of the original courtyard with render and timber cladding to lighten the space. The interior was remodelled to bring greater accessibility and legibility to the scheme.

I worked with the BLA director to develop the Stage D and technical design. I consulted and negotiated with the Doncaster conservation officer on the sensitive points of design as the building is adjacent to the Doncaster Minster. I coordinated the BLA technical team, reported to the project manager, and worked closely with the contractor on the demolition works and procurement of subcontract packages.

Church View | Doncaster


CGI: View of proposed courtyard (Iain Denby)

Photo: Partially demolished existing courtyard

Photo: Completed external paved area

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“It has been a real pleasure working with you and I have been struck by your knowledge, professionalism and passion for the work you did here.”

John Wright Client, Doncaster Central Development Trust

Photo: Completed internal multi-use space Photo: Completed internal multi-use space

CGI: View of external facade repair & cafe courtyard (Iain Denby)Photo: Completed facade repair

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This landmark regeneration project in Leeds spanned much of the time I was at BLA. I dipped in and out of the project a fair bit, designing and detailing discrete packages along with supporting the permanent project team.

Client: Yorkshire ForwardCost: £45M Area: 23,000m2.Completion: Phase 1A April 2012.Input: RIBA Stages D to G (3 to 4). Role: Design of public realm and residential block, technical documentation of external works.

The site is steeped in industrial history and distinguished by three chimneys, built as Italianesque towers by ambitious nineteenth century industrialists. The first phase of the Tower Works development comprises the restoration and extension of the Grade II listed entrance range. The project won the Best Altered Building at the Leeds Awards 2013.

My role included the design and technical detailing of the public realm scheme along with one of the apartment buildings which was part of a later phase. The landscape scheme I developed included varying gauges of dark limestone paving with rhylls and reed beds tracing their way through the site. Resolving the flood strategy and marrying it with disabled access was a crucial part of the remit which I resolved.

Tower Works | Leeds


CGI: Masterplan view of central square (Iain Denby)

Detail: Rhyll schematic

Photo: Phase 1A completion

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Photo: Phase 1A completion Photo: Phase 1A completion

Site Plan: Public realm & flood strategy

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This extensive coastal public realm scheme was delivered as part of the Seachange funding programme. No buildings to speak of, but this is one of my most satisfying design challenges to date.

Client: East Riding of Yorkshire Council.Cost: £5.6M Area: NA, Completion: May 2010.Input: RIBA Stages B to K (2 to 5). Role: Co-designer with Estell Warren Landscape Architecture, Lead Consultant.

Won by competition, BLA joined up with Estell Warren Landscape Architects to design this extensive foreshore project at Bridlington which involved a shared surface area outside the Spa building, remodelling of Pembroke Gardens, new balconies and retaining walls adjacent the highway and Spa slipway, plus new retaining walls and access ramps and stairs to the Princess Mary Promenade.

My role was to co-design the project with a renewed brief after the competition stage, coordinate the design team, and consult with the extensive client stake-holders in the project. The scheme involved balancing the most gritty of civil engineering requirements with the finest of artistic detailing with backlit glass screens. The scheme also involved a lengthy and often delicate public consultation process.

Spa Environs | Bridlington


CGI: View of promenade, shared surface & gardens (Iain Denby)

Photo: Completed ramp to promenade

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“It was great working with you. Thanks for all your thoughts and guidance on the Bridlington Project.”

Kirsty BrooksArtist

“How great is Brid!... I was spellbound... a work of art... expertly arranged and constructed by craftsmen. I

became at one... a part of the environment. Wonderful! Enchanting!

Thank you.”Mrs Dorothy Butcher

Visitor to Bridlington

Photo: Completed gardens Photo: Completed illuminated screens by Kirsty Brooks & BLA

Photo: Completed illuminated screens by Kirsty Brooks & BLA

Photo: Completed projecting viewing balcony Photo: Completed planted bank & ramp

Photo: Completed off form concrete retaining wall & balconies Photo: Completed off form concrete retaining wall & balconies

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A new youth centre as part of the government MyPlace funding scheme linked to a skills college.

Client: Chrysallis & Wakefield MD CouncilCost: £8.0M Area: 4,200m2.Completion: To planning 2009. 2012 (youth centre).Input: RIBA Stages A to D+ (1 to 4+). Role: Feasibility, masterplanning, lead designer, lead consultant.

“The Hut” and North East Learning Community is a combined facility of a youth centre and 14 to 19 skills college located within the deprived Airedale estate in Castleford. The orginal “Hut” was conceived as a place of refuge for young people in the woods. With the skills college added this was expanded to include a series of parallel pavilions connected single, legible glazed link.

My role included working closely with the client team and QS to develop a deliverable brief for the feasibility study, which was then used to secure the MyPlace funding grant. I acted as lead designer and consultant in order to develop a flexible masterplan and take the project to planning. Due to OJEU requirements, technical delivery was transferred to the council’s framework architect NPS. In 2010, the BSF college funding was subsequently withdrawn, so only the youth centre portion of the scheme was built. Media: http://tinyurl.com/hytmxj5

The Hut | Castleford


CGI: Aerial view

CGI: View of internal courtyard

CGI: View of meadow & skills college

Photo: Completed youth centre

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CGI: View of allotments, youth centre & skills college

Ground Floor Plan

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A sustainable new office building as part of a regeneration masterplan within the site of the Grade II* listed Marshalls Mill, the world’s first mechanised flax factory.

Client: Igloo Regeneration.Cost: £4.3M Area: 2,600m2.Completion: Competition To Planning 2008.Input: RIBA Stages C to D (2 to 3). Role: Co-designer with BLA directors, Lead Consultant.

The new building primarily offers office space that will be managed in conjunction with that in the Mill itself. Aportion of the ground floor is allocated for active uses.

The form and treatment of the building are intended to provide a simple backdrop to the historic Mill, however the modern interpretation of traditional approaches adds a new richness to the area as each facade responds directly to the environmental condition appropriate to it through varied shading and ventilation arrangements.

I was the project lead for BLA tasked with designing the building, coordinating consultants and preparing the planning application (approved). I developed the principle design concept with the directors and then coordinated the BLA team to refine the final design.

Marshalls Mill | Leeds

Bauman Lyons Architects 2008

CGI: Streetscene view

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CGI: View within site

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CGI: View within site CGI: Streetscene view

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Ground Floor Plan

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Competition winning regeneration scheme with Surface, Sarah Wigglesworth, and Hodson Architects.

Client: Igloo Regeneration.Cost: £51M Area: NA.Completion: Competition 2008.Input: RIBA Stage C (2). Role: Lead designer for BLA.

BLA was engaged as one of 4 architects to collaborate in the design of an extensive regeneration project with Surface Architects as masterplanners. The consortium with Igloo Regeneration as clients won the design and financial proposal for the scheme conducted by Hull Citybuild.

I was the lead designer for the BLA component of the extensive scheme which included both new-build mixed-use and adaptive reuse in the historic fruit market area. With one of the BLA directors, I developed an adaptive re-use strategy for the deep-plan fruit market warehouses which was adopted across the bid team and received plaudits from the assessors of the bids.

The multiple architect team was brought together to create a work of many hands, with the conceptual apporach not too dissimilar to canal-side developments in Amsterdam, with an accentuated vertical expression.

Fruit Market | Hull

Bauman Lyons Architects 2007

CGI: Street level view

Concept sketch: Adaptive re-use strategy

Photo: Existing streetscene

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Masterplan: Aerial plot divisions by architect

Design precedent: Local feature

Design precedent: Local building

Design precedent: Amsterdam housingElevation: Adaptive re-use

Composite Street Elevation

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The Terrace is an integral part of the emerging Cultural Quarte in Lincoln.The project seeks to unite two distinct subsectors,namely Fine Artists and Craftspeople and Creative Industry Businesses within one facility

Client: City of Lincoln Council.Cost: £4.6M. Area: 2,800m2.Completion: 2008.Input: RIBA Stages RIBA Stages F2 to L (5 to 6). Role: Construction phase lead consultant, technical & contractor coordination; contract administration support to QS.

The Terrace was conceived as three parallel blocks drawing upon the medival bergher plots that originally sat within the shadows of Lincoln Cathedral. Slate, buff brick and limestone were chosen as suitable materials to reflect the historic context. Structural glazing adds a contemporary but visually light layer which frames an important vista of the cathedral.

This was a highly bespoke and crafted building, which I ran on site as lead design consultant and supported the QS with the contract admisitration. I worked with the contractor, consultants and specialist subcontractors to resolve some highly complex facade sysrtems and their interfaces, and ensured that special crafted details maintained their integrity.

The Terrace Cultural Quarter | Lincoln


Photo: Completed building

First Floor Plan

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Photo: Completed building Photo: Completed building

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Photo: Completed buildingEast Elevation

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Barnsley Digital Media Centre is one of the first landmark buildings in Barnsley’s regeneration master plan. The project was won in a national developer/architectcompetition. The scheme provides managed office space for companies specialising in digital media.

Client: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough CouncilCost: £8.5M Area: 5,500m2.Completion: June 2007.Input: RIBA Stages E to F1 (4). Role: Technical documentation and detailing.

This was my first real architectural task in the UK. My role was to lead the technical delivery and detailing for Bauman Lyons to a good Stage E+/ F1 level of information to ensure a high quality of tendered information for the design and construct contract.

Working closely with the engineering team and specialist suppliers including laminated Yorkstone rainscreen, gabions and bronze curtain walling, I was able to ensure one of my most resolved transitions between concept and outcome.

The building is powered by a biomass boiler and naturally ventilated through the central atrium.

Digital Media Centre | Barnsley



Photo: Completed building - gabion rainscreen

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Photo: Completed building Photo: Completed building

Photo: Completed buildingPhoto: Completed building - central atrium

Section through central atrium

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I was commissioned to design Eveleigh Avenue as a speculative single dwelling with a progressive design which responded to the setting of the Blue Mountains.

Client: Greenscape Constructions.Cost: A$230K. Area: 150m2.Completion: September 2005.Input: Equivalent to RIBA Stages 1 to 5. Role: Designer.

The spectacular landscape of the Blue Mountains provided the design inspiration for this single dwelling perched on a steep block in Blackheath. The plan draws breath from Glenn Murcutt with its two pavilions sliding past one another - one public/living, one private/sleeping. Anchored in masonry walls the sleeping pavilion extrudes to project at tree level. The living pavilion unfurls itself in a butterfly roof form, the corrugated iron skin representing the peeling bark of a eucalyptus tree.

My commission included completing the design and submitting the planning and building regulations applications, negotiating with the planners, and providing supplementary construction information to the contractor. Careful attention to special requirements of the high bushfire exposure in the local area was required.

Eveleigh Avenue | Blue Mountains | Australia

Private Commission 2003 - 2005

Concept sketch: North Elevation

Ground Floor Plan

Photo: Completed building - lightwell

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Photo: Completed building - dining area Photo: Completed building - front entry

Photo: Completed building - dining & living area Photo: Completed building - rear balcony

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After assisting the project architect at McGlashan Everist on a number of education projects, this was my first solo contract administration experience. It was a first for branded architecture also.

Client: Penfold Mazda. Cost: A$4.5M. Area: 2,800m2. Completion: May 2005.Input: Equivalent to RIBA Stages 1 to 5. Role: Assisted director with design; consultant coordination; technical design; contract administrator - lead consultant.

The conceptual form of this showroom was developed by Mazda in Canada. McGlashan Everist was employed to adapt this model as the first to be implemented for Mazda in Australia. Apart from the main feature walls and canopies, the design incorporated a number of rotated axes creating the primary challenge with responding to the site and the functional requirements of the local franchise.

Indeed it was the complex set of functional processes and spatial relationships that created the most interesting challenge in this project. After being an integral part of the team during the design and documentation of the project, I became the lead consultant and contract administrator when the project was on site.

Mazda Showroom | Melbourne | Australia

McGlashan Everist Pty Ltd Architects 2003 - 2005




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Known as a bit of an eco-warrior by my lecturers at university, I was put in touch with Spowers when they secured the commission for this landmark “green” office building for the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Client: Australian Conservation FoundationCost: A$6.5M Area: 4,000m2

Completion: October 2002Input: Equivalent to RIBA Stages 2 to 6.Role: Architectural Assistant to the project architect.

The adaptive reuse of this 18C warehouse principally involved the insertion of a long central atrium with thermal chimneys to create natural stack ventilation via lightwells along the edge of the building.

My input on the project, along with the typical assistant’s fare, included long hours measuring up the existing building, making, wrecking, and re-making conceptual models, planning and technical drawings, not to mention compiling a sustainable building product database (the Green Spec Guide didn’t exist then).

Involvement in a project of this type so early in my education and career was crucial in affirming my belief in sustainability being central to both design and practice.

60L Green Building | Melbourne | Australia

Spowers Architects 1999 - 2002

Photo: Completed building - roof terrace & thermal chimneys

Photo: Completed building - front facade

Photo: Completed building - central atrium

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Acknowledgements

I acknowledge the Copyright of the respective practices whose work I have reproduced in this document, namely Lathams, Bauman Lyons Architects, McGlashan Everist Pty Ltd Architects and Spowers Architects. This publication is purely to explain and illustrate my creative and technical inputs to projects whilst in the employment of the practices.

Whilst I have personally authored many of the drawings, CGIs and photos in this document, others were also produced as part of a team under my direction, consultants, or commissioned as part of the respective practices’ marketing strategies.

Whilst most of the information contained in this document is generally available in the public domain, there may be some elements which may not exist outside this publication. It should not be particularly sensitive. However, please do not reproduce or distribute any of the information contained in this publication without the prior consent of the author.

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