Main Studio space
The proposal would remove the existing suspended tile ceiling to expose the original oak roof beam and truss structure.
Design & Innovation hub, for Alere International.
Alere commissioned Ian and his team to help them to establish a new hub for their UK based, global design & Innovation team.
Alere is a global diagnostics and health management company employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. They offer an extensive range of products and services that allow healthcare decisions to be taken at the point of care, helping to move diagnostic services ‘closer to home’.
The first option considered was to create the new centre in the former village school building the quintessentially English setting of Yardley Hastings. Part of the Castle Ashby Estate.
The proposed scheme would have exposed and restored many of the original structural features of the building and introduced a new mezzanine to increase the usable floor area and create the new studio space.
Ian worked with Amalgam’ates Sian Ives & Veronika Mitanova, along with Press & Starkey, Quantity Surveyors.
The Old Schoolhouse. Yardley Hastings
The former village school building the quintessentially English setting of Yardley Hastings. Part of the Castle Ashby Estate.
Main studio space
In the centre of the ground floor studio, a lounge would be created in-front of the ‘hearth like’ central ‘snug’ structure. The snug / meeting room partitions would serve to support the cantilevered glulam mezzanine floor beams
Main studio space
There would be no ‘individually allocated’ workstations but the staff, scientists, engineers & designers, would form team groups, according to project requirements
The site
The scheme included the refurbishment of the rear rooms, creating a new meeting room, Workshop / Laboratory & new staff facilities, a kitchen, DWC & shower-room. The garden would also be re-landscaped with a pergola / covered walkway, terraced seating and parking areas.
Main studio space
A new mezzanine would increase the usable floor area by a third. The Mezzanine would be constructed with slim, lightweight Glulam beams, keeping the floor profile thin and thus maximising the available headroom above and beneath.
The snug / library space
A snug / meeting room would be created under the mezzanine & behind the ‘hearth’