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Haverstock About us

Haverstock is an architectural practice that puts people first. Our buildings are designed to enhance people’s lives, and in their own small way, make the world a better place. For us, the process of architecture is collaborative and democratic - we want clients and people who use the buildings to have a voice, and to shape the way their building ends up. We strive to ensure our buildings improve all our lives and our communities and we strongly believe that modern buildings should be inclusive and accessible for all.

We have direct experience of designing high quality, functional ‘blue light’ buildings where there are stringent operational requirements which need the buildings to work highly efficiently. We have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and the Home Office for a number of years. For these clients we have delivered a wide range of projects including custody suites, police stations, control centres, offices, training accommodation, search facilities, and firing ranges. Previously we chaired the Home Office Design Review Panel and are therefore fluent with their standards.

Our team is made up of proactive design professionals with complementary skills and experiences to ensure a unique and creative solution to all projects. As well as architectural, we also provide client design advisor services, technical guidance, design review and access consultant services. We work on projects throughout the UK, including London, Hereford, Leominster, Solihull, Shropshire, Essex, Bristol, Birmingham, Dover and Kent.

We’ve won our fair share of awards, but what’s more important to us is that our contribution makes a real difference to the people who cross the threshold every day.

Cover: Blackrock Quarry Police Training Centre

Haverstock Technical Advisor

Haverstock have been appointed on numerous technical advisor roles across the UK:

• Redbridge Special School, London - London Borough of Redbridge and Gleeds

• Fenstanton Primary School and Lambeth Academy, London - London Borough of Lambeth

• Lilian Bayliss Secondary School and autism resource unit, London - London Borough of Lambeth

• King’s College London Maths School, London - EFA and Gleeds

• Westside (Alternative Provision) Free School, London - EFA and Turner and Townsend

• City Gateway (Alternative Provision) Free School, London - EFA and Turner and Townsend

• Alperton Community School (Secondary), London - Academy working directly for the school

• North Kingston Free School (Secondary), London - EFA and Turner and Townsend

• Wells Free School, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent - EFA and Turner and Townsend

• Shorefields SEND school, Essex - Essex County Council

• Edith Borthwick SEND school, Essex - Essex County Council (Part of PSBP East Batch)

• De La Salle Secondary School, Essex - Essex County Council

• Garston Manor SEND school, Hertford - Hertfordshire County Council (Part of PSBP East Batch)

• St. Andrews Academy, Enfield, Gleeds

• The Beeches PRU, Medway, Gleeds

• Inspire Academy, Medway, Gleeds

• St. Andrews Primary, Kent, Gleeds

• Bedford Free School, Bedford, Gleeds

• Cobham Free School, Cobham, EFA and Gleeds

• Beacon College, Hereford, EFA and Gleeds

• Brookfield SEND School, Herefordshire County Council

• Hove Valley Cullum Centre, Brighton and Hove Council, National Autistic Society

• Ashmead Primary School, Engie and London Borough of Lewisham

• Fox Crescent SEND School, Gleeds, EFA and Essex County Council

• Hawthorns SEND School, Gleeds, EFA and Essex County Council

• South Gloucester SEND School, EFA and Gleeds

• Southwark PRU, Tim Ronalds and London Borough of Southwark

• Meadow SEND School, London Borough of Hillingdon

• Hedgewood SEND School, London Borough of Hillingdon

Haverstock Social Value

A key part of our company approach is to embed social value at the heart of the practice. All members of the studio undertake volunteer roles throughout the year working in similar environments to the ones we design so they have first hand experience of the end users needs.

We carried out a creative workshop with the children of The Hawthorns School to design and build their own imaginary school out of old cardboard packaging and other recycled materials. Each architect worked one on one with a child, to suit their needs and capabilities. Across the day, we engaged with more than 12 students and built an entire town with several schools, a train station and a hospital. We also played with the children during their break time – building forts, drawing in chalk and opening up their bug hotel. The Hawthorns School is a new build school for students with Autism that we are currently designing.

Interestingly Different are a social enterprise who sell beautiful gifts and household goods produced by partners who employ people with learning difficulties, autism, disabilities or life challenges. They wanted to create a place to showcase the products made by their trainees to be front and centre in their community. Our studio worked with their team to design and build their new shop to display these wonderful products.

Haverstock Social Value

Taking part in a work experience event with ISG and Woodlands Meed College. The new build college that is currently on site is for students with a wide range of physical and learning disabilities. We had a fun day onsite building and testing bridges. There were some amazing creations!

We’re really pleased to have been able to support the collaboration between Hovia and The National Autistic Society. Together they have curated a range of wallpaper designs catering for individuals with hypersensitivity. Refreshing to see such high quality design finishes that consider the built environment from a perspective inclusive of individuals with autism.

One of our architects had the exciting opportunity to spent a month in Zambia helping to build a new kindergarten with CAUKIN Studio. With 15 other volunteers, and a number of local Zambian workers, time was spent brick laying, block laying, fabricating steel doors, windows and roof trusses, setting out brick columns and mixing concrete (by hand!) Being away for a month allowed the team to integrate in to Zambian life and close bonds were formed with each other and the Zambian workers, who welcomed everyone in to their homes and families with lots of food, dancing and laughter. The new kindergarten will allow students to access education from a younger age.

Haverstock Social Value

We were lucky enough to volunteer at The National Autistic Society, Starshine for Autism Christmas carol concert. It was a wonderful evening set in the beautiful St. Clement Danes Church. A fantastic festive time was had by all to raised funds for the charity.

Taking part in a work experience event with ISG and Woodlands Meed College. A new build college that we are currently working on, for students with a wide range of physical and learning disabilities. We used the new college construction site as a learning environment and placement to help prepare and support students for their life journey post college. Our session was titled “What is an Architect” and included discussing what an architect does day to day, elements of a construction project, talking about the new college building, exploring materials, sketching and some model bridge building.

ONELAB College is an amazing further education college that was designed to educate and train young people with special educational needs and disabilities ages 16 - 25 to discover their voices and places in this world through #Design, #DigitalMedia and #Entrepreneurship within a design studio environment, preparing learners for the world of work within the creative sector. ONELAB College students discover their voices through art, design and digital media in an immersive four year programme. We had a fantastic time working together to achieve ideas for a new showroom space and shop.

Haverstock Social Value

We assisted with a Year 10 lesson for the next generation of design professionals. Heathcote School along with the ‘class of your own’ initiative have developed a great brief for a special needs provision, and we were on hand to assist with design, the role of the architect in the profession and answering tricky questions on briefing considerations! It was great to be involved and look forward to a repeat visit to see how the designs are progressing.

Our Barn Community are a community-based charity providing learning, life skills and social interaction for young people aged between 16 to 35 with learning disabilities or autism. Our Barn have an incredible garden and allotment which provides life skill and social activities to the young people there. We spent the day doing some of the heavy lifting in laying new paths to make the garden more wheelchair accessible, and rebuilding fences, alongside some of the wonderful staff and young people. Hopefully we’ll be back to do some more work with them and meet some more of the fantastic people who benefit so much from a beautiful setting and a fantastic charity.

Some of our architects were lucky enough to have joined Studio 306 Collective CIC in their metalwork workshop. The aim of the studio is to empower disadvantaged local individuals by offering a creative space for those who are recovering from mental illness. Here they can rediscover forgotten skills, develop new ones and boost their confidence within a working environment. Studio 306 Collective CIC is a not-forprofit organisation, so every penny made from the sale of their products goes back into supporting the project.

Blackrock Quarry Training Centre

Bristol, £16M

Client: Galliford Try/Avon and Somerset Police

New training centre for Avon and Somerset Police in Bristol. The building contains highly specialist spaces, such as two fire ranges and tactical training facilities, plus offices and classrooms. The facilities are designed to be simple, practical, safe, secure and robust whilst the front of house and admin spaces have richer palette of materials and a more refined aesthetic.

The result of the consultation and the unusual design approach is a simple and elegant building that complements the natural beauty of the quarry, incorporating car parking and extensive landscape habitat, whilst providing highly specialist visitor and training facilities.

Civic Trust Award, Winner, 2017

Spaces Innovation Category Award, Winner, 2017

RIBA Award South West Region, Winner, 2016

RICS Award Design through Innovation, Winner, 2016

“Working with Haverstock was a pleasure and we built a strong working relationship. They were professional throughout. Very competent. We were able to work collaboratively in the true sense of the word. The building owners and users are delighted with the end product. Their designs were well thought out and were ‘buildable’. They were open to discussing details with us and our supply chain. We would welcome the opportunity to work with them again.”

Sean Finch Galliford Try

“The overwhelming impression that this building imparts, inside and out, is one of purity of purpose. This is a confident, mature building. The architects are to be congratulated for creating the ideal solution for what must have been an extremely demanding brief.”

Civic Trust Award Judges Comments

Scotland Yard, Metropolitan Police Headquarters London, £30M

Client: Metropolitan Police

Sector: Police

Working in collaboration with AHMM we successfully won the international design competition to design and deliver a new central London headquarters for the Metropolitan Police Service, relocating from the former New Scotland Yard building.

Keynsham Custody Suite and Police Centre

Bristol, £16M

Client: Galliford Try/Avon and Somerset Police

A new custody suite and offices with a range of complex uses. The building holds 48 custody cells including 4 vulnerable cell with a central control bridge, a Police and Criminal Evidence Interview and evidence capturing facilities; Video Identification Parade Electronic Recording suites; Crime Scene Investigation facilities; and Prosecution and Investigation facilities.