Workshops

We have experience designing very specialist technical workshops for a range of educational and cultural institutions. These facilities demonstrate our ability to work through the briefing, design and planning of these spaces, as well as incorporate complex servicing requirements. Workshop spaces were fundamental to the buildings at the RCA Battersea campus. The design of the Clore Innovation Centre in the Dyson building helps facilitate a link between business and education by providing an ecosystem of creative workspaces linked to workshops, with the mission to strengthen the culture of design innovation and entrepreneurialism at the University and explore new and innovative ways of working. The Woo Building mirrors the factory-inspired Dyson Building, with a triple-height glazed central hall accommodating specialist equipment alongside spacious workshops. Through working in close collaboration with academics, technicians and students we were able to build an in-depth understanding of the requirements for the workshops and develop a space planning strategy for these facilities that was well coordinated with efficient servicing. The refurbishment and extension of Kingston University Knights Park campus will deliver state of the art, highly serviced workshop spaces. These include dedicated 3D workshops, printmaking and letterpress workshops, photography and film studios, darkrooms, digital editing suites, rapid prototyping facilities and animation and motion capture studios. Early end-use engagement with a range of different art, design and humanities departments helped to assess needs and develop the brief. Close collaboration with the estates team and facilities management helped to ensure design decisions deliver maximum value for money whilst meeting the requirements of end users.