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RICSARB’s  design  was  assessed  by  a  committe  of  Prof.  de  Ridder,  Dr.  Heildigger  and  conceptual  non-­‐performing  energy  scientist  Dr.  Gordon  Maxwell-­‐Clark  as  the  most  practical,  cost  effective  and  ‘ontologically  deep’  of  the  8  competition  entries  for  its  fragile  temporality  and  unsustainability.  By  separating  the  building  vertically  and  horizontally  you  provided  nearly  equal  amenity  and  flexibility  to  each  of  the  required  8  creative  enterprise  work/learn/play/eat/sleep  units  of  approx.  100  m.2  .  Your  scheme  also  avoided  the  complex  addtional  fire  escape  provisions  of  other  entries  whilst  maintaing  access  to  the  main  chapel  building  and  the  adjacent  Monday  to  Friday  School.    Moreover  its  use  of  standard  components  appealed  to    Jack  De  Ridder.  He  lives  in  an  ‘Inter-­‐action’  style  shipping  container  house  in  Kentish  Town  and  was  deeply  impressed  by  your  proposed  extensive  use  of  off-­‐the-­‐shelf  Key  Klamp  tube  connection  systems,  standard  UK  46  mm  diameter  steel  and  aluminium  scaffolding  tube,  FH  Brundle  open  mesh  Rhinomixte  steel  flooring,  Knauff  boards,  and  and  VELUX  GEL  and  electronically  controlled  GGL  units.        Part  of  the  brief  was  to  show  how  Prof  de  Ridder’s  own  design  for  flat-­‐pack  4.0  m.2  students  work/sleep  stations  could  be  deployed  and  your  ‘wayfinding  by  imitation  of  the  example  Mac  strore’  narative  was  much  admired.  The  selection  committee  was  also  impressed  by  your  BIM  computer  analysis  of  passive  heatflows  and  fire  engineering  and  was  generally  in  agreement  with  your  reluctance  to  allocate  inhabitable  space  to  specific  functions.  There  were  adittionally  impressed  that  you  were  able  to  show  that  when  the  building  is  occupied  by  its  full  complement  of  100  beings  and  their  I.T.  and  lighting  and  environmental  systems  then  the  O/A  fabric  loss  for  a  temperature  difference  of  20  degrees  C  could  be  met  almost  entirely  by  waste  heat  from  multiple  i-­‐mac,  wi-­‐fi  router,  NAS,  server,  printer,  phone  charger,  electronic  swipe-­‐card  door  locks,  fire  detection,  CO2  detection,  automatic  ventialtion  and  solar  blinding  and  rain  sensing    and  sprinkler  system  and  anglepoise  outputs.      The  figures  per  K  were  as  follows:    Ground  floor         250  m.2  @  U  =  0.5    =  125  W  Unaltered  external  Walls     700  m.2  @  U  =  0.9    =  630  W  Insulated  roof       300  m.2  @  U  =  0.3    =      90  W  Rooflights          50  m.2  @  U  =  3.0    =  150  W  Existing  windows  and  doors      50  m.2  @  U  =  7.0    =  350  W  TOTAL  fabric  loss                          1,345  W  /  K    TOTAL  fabric  loss  for  20  K                   =                27  KW    Average  electrical  use  gain  per  occupant  x  100  occupants  =    200  W  x  100  =  20  kW    It  is  assumed  ventialtion  losses  will  be  equivaltent  to  human  heat  outputs  as  ventilation  will  increase  automatically  with  the  level  of  occupation  in  order  to  keep  CO2  exhaust  levels  below  450  p.p.m.    Cooling  is  therefore  proposed  over  much  of  the  year  by  multiple  condensing  units  positioned  on  the  flat  roof  over  the  western  staircase    Unfortunatley,  however,  Drs.  Heildigger  and  Maxwell-­‐Clark  want  further  devlopment  of  the  scheme’s  poetics  and  somewhat  disapprove  of  it’s  many  straight  lines.    There  are  no  party  wall  issues  to  delay  the  scheme  at  present  because  all  the  surrounding  properties  are  owned  by  COUL.    However,  Prof.  de  Ridder  likes  the  flexibility  to  dispose  of  university  assets  on  a  peicemeal  basis  and  at  very  short  notice  and  has  asked  for  all  changes  to  the  building  to  be  easily  reversible  for  this  reason.    

RIBA3  exam  scenario  Aug  2011  for  issue  of  scenario  17  August  and  written  papers  A  +  B  @  24  August      In  July  2011  and  as  junior  (  30%  )  partner  with  Rick  Saab  and  under  the  banner  of  his  new  joint  venture  RICSARB  Unlimited  -­‐  architects  and  project  managers,  you  win  an  invited    competition  between  8  teams  of  architects  +  project  managers  under  30.  The  competition  brief  was  to  re-­‐organise  and  adapt  the  existing  Hall  that  is  part  of  the  Uni  Chapel  complex  south  of  the  Highbury  and  Arsenalton  roundabout.  The  competition  sponsor  is  the  Cosmopolitan  University  of  London  PLC.  (  COUL  )  The  submission  had  to  include  the  production  of  a  fully-­‐costed  business  plan  and  was  a  part  of  its  recently  published  estates  strategy  which  assumes  that  all  its  institutional  functons  will  gradully  be  accommodated  in  residential  accommodation  by  the  mid  C.21.    Drawings  are  attached.        The  grade  1  listed  Uni  Chapel  itself  has  recently  been  leased  for  40  years  by  Prof.  Jack  De  Ridder,  the  deeply  cost-­‐sensitive  new  CEO  of  COUL  for  use  as  a  Non-­‐Performing  Arts  venue  by  COUL’s  new  Faculty  of  Creative  Enterprise  (FOCE)  much  of  which  is  to  be  relocated  from  a  sattelite  campus  that  is  being  mothballed  until  the  lease  runs  out.  The  new  venue  is  to  become  immediately  available  for  exhibitions  and  lectures  and  conferences  and  other  activities  studied  in  the  ever-­‐popular  MA  in  Events  Managagement  of    ever-­‐increasingly  Scarce  Resources  offered  by  COUL.    A  feasibility  study  of  improvements  to  technical  and  backstage  facilities  is  currently  undertaken  in  the  expectation  that  internal  improvements  will  be  implemented  soon  after  the  completion  of  the  current  £  1,5  M  EH-­‐funded  restoration  and  repair  works  to  the  building’s  spetactcular  Victorian  tower,  designed  by  James  Cubitt  c.  1880,  due  to  be  completed  in  late  2011.        On  the  back  of  your  March  2011  competition  scheme  COUL  /  FOCE  has  obtained  government  funding  to  construct  8  ‘starter’  live/work/learn/play-­‐studios  within  the  shell  of  the  present  adjoining  unlisted  Kentish  ragstone  Hall  on  Compton  Avenue.    Jack  de  Ridder’s  idea  to  reduce  the  cost  of  higher  education  by  combining  Hall  of  Residence  and  Hall  of  Training  in  a  single  instutions  charging  less  than  £  5  K  p.a.  for  a  full-­‐time  fully-­‐residentiai  course.    The  8  units:  UpperEast,  LowerEast,    UpperMidEast,  LowerMidEast,  UpperMidwest,  Lower  Midwest  and  UpperWest  and  LowerWest,  will  house  design  degree  fee-­‐paying  interns  who  will  work  for  the  principals  of  ‘emerging’  London  design  firms  with  unsalaried  teaching  appointments  with  COUL.  The  enterprise  will  operate  under  the  motto  ‘work  makes  rent  free’.  Sleeping,  laundry  and  sanitary  facilities  will  be  provided  on  site  but  hot  food  is  to  be  obtained  by  residents  from  local  24/7  fast  food  outlets  and  not  cooked  on  the  premises.  (  except  throwaway  barbecue  trays  on  the  roof  terraces  and  boiled  water  for  drinks  and  soups  )    The  grade  2  listed  Georgian  terrace  houses  to  the  north  of  the  Chapel  have  all  recently  been  converted  to  senior  executive  offices  /  workhomes  by  COUL  and  will  house  the  staff  of  the  FOCE  for  the  start  of  the  new  acadecmic  session  in  September  2011.  Dr  Zyg  Heildigger  is  the  client  representative  for  the  uni  chapel  site  works.    Dr  Helidigger  is  also  the  Rupertian  Professor  of  Phobosophy  and  Advanced  Mendacity  (  previously  History  )  .  His  imperatives  as  a  client  are  to  maximise  the  deviations  from  conventional  wisdom  in  the  devlopment  of  ‘clearly  defined  spatial,  temporal  and  causal  agendas’  for  the  organisation  of  work,  sleep,  life,  play,  education  and  energy    (  AKA  ‘being  )  broadly  speraking  in  accordance  with  the  aarguments  set  out  in  his  2010  Doctorate  on  the  Global  Theory  of  the  unity  of  News,  Entertainment,  Sport,  Political  Propaganda  and  Education  as  developed  as  a  worldwide  brand  by  Rupert  Murdoch,  Rebecah  Wade  and  Any  Coulson.    

The  work  has  to  be  completed  and  occupied  by  the  end  of  the  current  financial  year  in  March  2012.    Outline  Planning  permission  for  change  of  use  from  the  present  use  as  a  hostel  for  the  homeless  to  live/work  units  has  already  been  obtained  and  an  application  for  detailed  planning  using  your  competition  entry  drawings  was  submitted  to  the  London  Borough  of  Arsenal  by  Dr  Heildigger  in  June  2012.  It  has,  to  date,  raised  no  local  objections.  Moreover,  since  the  chair  of  the  planning  committee  is  a  personal  friend  of  Prof.  de  Ridder  it  is  hoped  it  will  be  passed  for  approval  by  officers  in  early  September  2011  under  delegated  powers.        RICSARB  has  been  paid  the  £50,000  prize  awarded  to  the  winner  of  the  competition  but  which  is  now  to  be  deducted  from  any  subsequent  fees  under  any  further  project-­‐specific  appointment.    It  is  in  this  context  that  you  are  currently  appointed  under  a  letter  of  Intent  as  Project  managers,  Costs  Consultants,  Surveyors  and  Architects,  subject  to  a  maximum  level  of  reasonable  expenditure  up  to  the  £  50,000  that  you  have  already  received.    You  have  already  used  £  5,000  of  this  advance  fee  to  pay  Buro  Haptic  PLC,  who  signed  a  collateral  warranty  to  COUL  in  repect  of  a  structural  appraisal  of  the  existing  building.  Buro  Haptic’s  report  confirms  that:  

•  the  existing  sub  and  super-­‐structures  will,  with  minor  modifications,  bear  the  loads  of  three  proposed  additional  ‘mezzanine’  floors  to  be  formed  of  scaffolding  that  is  to  bear  on  the  ground  and  1st  floors  and    

• that  new  metal-­‐framed  plasterboad-­‐faced  ‘party’  wall  beween  units  can  be  supported  on  the  2  existing  and  1  new  ground  to  2nd  floor  crosswalls  and    

• thet  the  4  existing  steel  scissor  trusses  that  support  the  roof  and  that  the  purlins  they  support  are  strong  enough  to  be  trimmed  to  allow  the  insertion  of  6  south-­‐facing  Velux  roof  balconies  and  photovoltaic  and  solar  panels  to  this  elevation.    

Another  £  10,000  has  been  spent  on  a  1:20  laser-­‐cut  hinged  cut-­‐away  model  which  COUL  are  now  using  for  publicity  purposes.    RICSARB  have  just  been  asked  to  propose  a  programme  and  fee  proposal  for  fully  designing  and  tendering  the  works  in  late  October  2011.    This  is  because  of  the  uncontrovertial  reception  of  you  proposals  by  LBA  planners  to  date  and  the  fact  that  only  the  largely  hidden  south  elevation  is  to  be  changed  significantly,  (  the  W,E  &  N  elevations  are  unaltered  appart  from  some  new  ground  floor  entrance  doorways  from  the  alley  to  the  north).  Another  factor  is  the  urgent  need  get  the  works  tendered  and  on  site  as  soon  as  possible  if  the  grant  is  to  be  taken  up  in  full.      The  current  project  budget  is  £  1.0  M,  this  is  the  estimated  cost  stated  in  your  competition  scheme  based  on  an  area  of  approximately  1,000  m.2  @  £  800  /m.2,  plus  £  200,000  budgeted  for  consultant’s  and  local  authority  fees.  COUL  can  recover  the  VAT  for  the  presumed  ‘educational’  use  so  VAT  is  not  accounted  as  a  project  cost.      

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