King’s College, Cambridge Master Plan Development
Introduction Consultation Opportunities Accessibility Sustainability Case Studies
Who We Are
Stuart Cade Director, Project Director
Jessie Turnbull
Associate Director, Masterplanner, Consultation, Student Living Specialist
Mandy Franz
Associate Director
Conservation Architect, Heritage
Jacob Spence Project Architect
Mark Tugman Education Specialist
Huseyin Bulbul Masterplan Architect Andy Long Environmental Engineer
Our Leaders
Strategic Masterplanning Retrofit / Housing / Estates
Educational Expert Principal Designer
Passivhaus Designer BIM/Modern Methods
Masterplanning Independent Schools
Education Experience Landscape Design
Transport-led Masterplan
James Roach
Gavin Miller
Paul Mullin
Victoria Timberlake
Jamie Lilley Estate Masterplan Sustainable School Design
Danusia Lewis
Paul Wynn Residential Design
Javier Rada Domingo Education and Residential Projects on Complex Sites
Jonathan Evans Conservation & Heritage Collegiate Experience
Will Armstrong Education Projects Regeneration, Mixed-use
Kelly Ordemann Project Management Masterplanning
Dave Jones Senior Technician Historic and sensitive settings
MICA and King’s Working Together
“MICA listen to their clients and are able to come up with inspired solutions for difficult problems.”
Ms
Amanda Saville, Librarian at The Queen’s College, Oxford
MICA Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
Trusted Partners
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
St John’s College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Hertford College, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford
Mansfield College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Peking University, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
The Queen’s College, Oxford
Oxford Brookes University
King’s College, London
University of Lancaster
East Ham Council
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Fairfield Halls, Croydon
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
The South Bank Centre, London
The Wallace Collection, London
Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge College
Cheng Yu Tung Building, Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College Masterplan, Oxford
Strategic masterplan for iconic heritage setting
National Maritime Museum addition
Mapping Christ’s future development
Activating the historic Bodley Library
A welcoming new Porters’ Lodge
New working library within the historic heart
Pragmatic solutions within a constrained budget
College, London
Estates, landscape and way-finding masterplan
Masterplan for a historic, compact, urban College
Iterative testing for dispersed sites
A 30-year relationship across two sites
Keble College Estates and Landscape Masterplan, Oxford
Park Road site and H B Allen Centre
H B Allen Centre with landscape quad
Raglan House for day pupils
The Sixth Form social and study centre
A new civic presence linking to Old Courts
Announcing Caius’ presence on the Market Square
Effective Consultation
What does Domus look like in 100 years?
What will Mill Lane bring to King’s?
What could Old School offer King’s?
Where can King’s access improve?
How do we consolidate sustainability strands?
A staged approach
MICA Collaboration
King’s College
MICA team
Steering Committee
Governing Body
Staff, Fellows, Students
Consultant team
– Confirm stakeholder engagement strategy
– Research and material consolidation
– Analysis of ownership, areas, demand
– Site visits and benchmarking
– Listening interviews, workshops, consultations
– Assessment of need across agreed work-streams
– Finalise terms of reference
– Steering Group collaborative review of GATHER
– Development of initial spatial interventions
– Preliminary identification of priority sequence
– Evaluation of synergies between access, energy and space
– Demonstration of how interventions respond to need
– Agree anchors for measures of success
– Steering Group collaborative review of TEST
– Design and creativity
– Collaboration with invested parties
– Demonstrate response to feedback on TEST
– Establishing order of cost per project
– Recommend phasing options
– Evocative visualisations
Understanding the College needs
What tools can we use to understand the needs of our target student population? The priorities of our stakeholders? The ambitions of our community partners?
Collective understanding of estate
Sessions that evoke untold stories and deeper information exchange. Enabling visualisation and first-hand experience of community.
Jessie touring Cranmer Road with Gonville & Caius College
Interactive workshops
Hands-on, experiential activities that encourage communication, collaboration and decision-making.
GATHER TEST RECOMMEND
Board-game as a method to draw out responses to site constraints
Evaluating existing data
Consolidating information from new and existing surveys, post-occupancy evaluations both at King’s and beyond, consulting archives and compiling the data.
Initial spatial interventions
Generating ideas in response to the needs identified at the testing stage and developing those into spatial solutions. Iteratively testing those again with the work-stream focus groups and wider stakeholders through workshops.
Demonstrating the metrics associated with each option or intervention to enable informed direction from the King’s client team.
Community evaluation
Establishing through consultation with steering group and key stakeholders how success is measured by the King’s community to allow evaluation of the success of each proposed intervention.
Ensuring that key criteria are agreed collectively and used as the driver to determine which elements to progress and RECOMMEND.
Demonstrating options through physical models
Example success matrix
Documenting outcomes
Consolidating the successful outputs into a single document for King’s review and approval, presenting the solutions to the stakeholders and focus groups and taking on board final feedback.
GATHER
Communicating complex 3d arrangements through cutaway isometric views
Documenting outcomes
Consolidating agreed recommendations into a single report first in draft format for comment by the college community, followed by a final report. A pithy executive summary, available as a standalone document, ensures that even the busiest contributor can access the outcomes of the masterplan.
Executive summary and images generated form the basis of material for fundraising.
Mapping Christ’s Future
We would like to ask:
What does Domus look like in 100 years?
What will Mill Lane bring to King’s?
What could Old Schools offer King’s?
Where can King’s access improve?
How best to consolidate sustainability strands?
The iconic heart of Cambridge
A wealth of sites require robust strategy to meet diverse aims and objectives. The operational sites—from the Sports Ground to the historic core College to the Mill Lane site—have a prominence in Cambridge and offer opportunities for this pivotal moment. We can help you bring these different sites together under one strategic vision.
Three central sites
What does Domus look like in 100 years?
Potential
How will the site handle the increase in undergraduate numbers?
When is the right time to electrify the kitchens?
Could the library and archive be better housed elsewhere?
How can the gardens be best used for renewable energy, well-being and biodiversity?
How best to handle the tourist flows?
What is the long term potential for Garden Hostel grounds?
Oxford,
Site Considerations
An iconic site with layered risks of flooding, archaeology and historical constraints of precious listed buildings that contribute significantly to Cambridge city centre
40-60 year flood extents
Key pedestrian route
College frontage
Historic shop-front
Existing important trees
Grade I listed buildings
Grade II listed buildings
Positive building/structure
Building of local interest
Listed park/garden boundary
Key positive view
Focal feature
Site Routes and Spaces
King’s College is defined by a primary axis that connects from King’s Parade to the Backs and other accommodation, while a secondary axis emerges with the integration of Mill Lane and Old Schools
Site Opportunities
Consolidating student-focused activities for well-being at the heart of Cambridge surrounded by biodiverse landscape
Renovation and energy upgrade opportunities to existing buildings, prioritising The Gibbs Building combined with upgrading the basement to become use-able space.
Replace existing kitchen, replanning it for optimisation and upgrading to electric.
Review progress on ground source heat pump studies and its potential across gardens and backs sites.
Bodley’s Court tree has been removed and now the intimate, student-facing court feels exposed. Consider extending the north range further west (in line with Bodley’s original plan.
Consolidate parking south of Garden Hostel and consider adding a new wing of accommodation to the hostel or independent construction flanking West Road.
Consider reconfiguration or new construction of garden buildings for wellness, performance and events, and to encourage their greater all-weather flexibility year-round
What will Mill Lane bring to King’s?
Potential
Could the site house 250 student rooms or more?
What ancillary spaces are required to meet diverse needs?
How much of the site should be accessible to the public?
Can social and quiet study spaces complement the existing library space?
Mix of facade qualities on Silver Street, constrained public realm
Rooftop rooms in Chen Yu Tung Building, Jesus College, Oxford,
View into “poor quality feature” yard from Mill Lane Social study spaces integrated with
MILL LANE SITE RISKS
Site Considerations
The acquisition of the Mill Lane site offers great potential for College growth with a large urban site, with handsome existing buildings and potential to house up to 250 students comfortably. However, the site is highly constrained, fronted by narrow streets, and packed with locally significant buildings.
• Working in the setting of the Grade II listed Pitt Building
• Narrow street access on all four sides
• Working across the thoroughfare of Laundress Lane
• Positive Buildings recognised in the Historic Core Appraisal of 2017 include Stuart House, the Lecture Halls, and the oast house in Miller’s Yard
• Existing building heights range from two to four storeys
• Mill Lane provides vehicular access to the University Centre and Hilton Hotel
• Silver Street is a heavily trafficked pedestrian route leading to the Mill Pond
• Anchor is a well-loved pub and Cambridge landmark
• Options for retention vs. deconstruction.
Example retaining listed buildings with new construction on four sides
40-60 year flood extents
Key pedestrian route
Historic shop-front
Potential habitat corridor
Existing important trees
Grade I listed buildings
Grade II listed buildings
Positive building/structure
Building of local interest
Proposal for deconstruction
Key positive view
Focal feature
Routes and Spaces
Mill Lane benefits from a convenient link from the King’s Domus site along Queen’s Lane to the existing portal, or new gateway on Silver Street. The site is generous and can house one large or interlinked smaller courtyards, protected from the public realm to create a pleasant and calm College environment.
The Mill Lane Routes and Spaces
• The approach to retention offers different space alignments, however both have in comment an axis East - West for students within Mill lane and a South - North axis connecting it to the main campus and offering a route through for all.
OPENING UP ROUTES TO THE MILL POND
• This opportunity allows the city to breath and Kings to offer an open door for entrances and retention of shops.
• Improvement of boundary and solid walls to green walls
CENTRAL STUDENT FOCUSED SPACE
Example of urban stitching tested in physical models
MILL LANE SCOPE Opportunities
An exciting opportunity for judicious retrofit and reuse of characterful existing buildings as appropriate, carefully planned to account for future flexibility, dynamic and unique College accommodation. Balance to the rich architectural legacy of the King’s estate to support contemporary insertions woven into locally significant historic fabric.
The Mill Lane Considerations and Risks
• Consider retaining some of the press building and retrofitting as accommodation
• Carefully de-construct interior elements and salvage materials where possible to open up various sized courts
• Linkages towards Domus site and internally along the length of the site to connect to the vibrant local community
• Rooftop extensions where possible.
• Silver Street to provide a new gateway.
• Complete courtyards through new interventions and create a King’s Presence on Silver Street
Elevated Student Court
New Gatehouse to Mill Lane Court New open court Potential of study and conference centre Mill Lane Court
New biodiverse university oasis Opening up space to punting station
MILL LANE SCOPE
Site Opportunities
An exciting opportunity for judicious retrofit and reuse of characterful existing buildings as appropriate, carefully planned to account for future flexibility, dynamic and unique College accommodation. Balance to the rich architectural legacy of the King’s estate to support contemporary insertions woven into locally significant historic fabric.
The Mill Lane Considerations and Risks
• Consider retaining some of the press building and retrofitting as accommodation
250-350
• Carefully de-construct interior elements and salvage materials where possible to open up various sized courts
• Linkages towards Domus site and internally along the length of the site to connect to the vibrant local community
• Rooftop extensions where possible.
• Silver Street to provide a new gateway.
• Complete courtyards through new interventions and create a King’s Presence on Silver Street
What could Old Schools offer King’s?
Potential
How could the historic courts of King’s be reintegrated into the College? Does a newly emphasised axis offer opportunities to relieve bottle necks?
Can previously dispersed activities be better accommodated here?
Does re-activating the Old Schools shift King’s centre of gravity?
Internal courtyard is dominated by bins, bikes and cars
New step-free entry and access at the Royal Horticultural Society HQ
Old Courts is immediately adjacent to the Clare Gate of King’s
OLD SCHOOLS SITE RISKS
Considerations
COCKERELL BUILDING (GONVILLE & CAIUS)
Analysing The Old Schools site potential, weighing impact on historically significant spaces and fabric A series of grand, awe-inspiring spaces, some with epic views paired with smaller areas that have been subdivided as offices and ancillary uses
Constraints:
– Grade I Listed buildings with large original rooms remain: high floor-to-ceiling heights; decorated ceiling or exposed roof structures, and large infrequent existing windows; such as former
– Spaces of note: Regent House, East-, Syndicate-and Council Rooms of Cobble Court.
– Ground level former Lecture Rooms are less suited to conversion to cellular accommodation
– Irregular and non-repetitive arrangements of characterful spaces limit ease of adaptive reuse for new functions.
– Limited existing step-free access to ground and upper levels, particularly West Court
– Extremely limited vehicular access along Trinity Lane
CHAPEL WEST COURT COBBLE COURT
Barren surfaced courts and parking
Large floor-to-ceilings and historic windows of Cobble Court
OLD SCHOOLS SITE SCOPE
Routes and spaces
Offers great potential for the College to bookend its already dramatic theatre set of architectural landmarks, giving new reading of King’s sense of campus, and would bring the Chapel into a more centralised position.
– Offers great potential for the College to bookend its already dramatic theatre set of architectural landmarks, giving new reading of King’s sense of campus, and would bring the Chapel into a more centralised position.
– A new college destination, returning the Old Courts of King’s College, with well-placed gatehouse in Trinity Lane and potential College link through the Chapel North Gate.
– Opportunity for reinterpretation of the current and original uses of the Old Schools buildings, whilst sympathetic to well-maintained highly significant fabric and fittings.
– Transform the underutilised internal courts, particularly West Court, as a new northern hub of King’s central site, with richly biodiverse green new landscaping giving pleasant outlook from inward-facing rooms.
– Potential for reinterpretation of the Grade II* Historic lawn between Chapel and the south ranges of The Old Schools.
Key pedestrian route
College frontage
Listed park/ garden
Key positive view
COCKERELL BUILDING (GONVILLE & CAIUS)
Potential to improve as desirable green spaces
Potential lodge and Chapel public access
Potential for biodiversity improvement
CHAPEL
FRONT COURT
WEST COURT COBBLE COURT
Prominent historic C15 gatehouse
West Court to regain heritage setting
Cobble Court could contrast West Court
OLD SCHOOLS SITE SCOPE Opportunities
Working judiciously with historically significant College fabric for new Domus site uses. Potential for outward-facing activities including conferences, alumni hub, exhibition space, King’s visitor centre and consolidating operational activities.
– Explore low-, medium-, and high-levels of impact to fabric,
– Structurally independent, reversible insertions that provide new accommodation
– Building fabric and energy use improvements
– Upgrade basement to become usable spaces
– Opportunity to prioritise office or student accommodation in locations with smaller floor-to-ceiling heights and with more frequent fenestration,
– Improving level access opportunities, particularly to West Court ranges.
– Possible relocation of Domus site offices, Fellows’ sets, common rooms and seminar rooms where they may be constrained to more generously sized settings in The Old Schools.
– Consider opportunity for conference accommodation in characterful and historically significant setting.
– Celebrate the grand spaces of Cobble Court which are in a good state of repair, as complimentary or replacement collegiate space to Domus site Renovation and energy upgrade opportunities, combined with upgrade to basement to become usable spaces.
Potential single-storey pavilion
Potential collegiate use
Re-landscaped courts
SENATE HOUSE
WEST COURT COBBLE COURT
COCKERELL BUILDING (GONVILLE & CAIUS)
Existing meeting room spaces
Characterful board room spaces
Decorative ceiling
Where can King’s access improve?
Access Improvements
Recognising the need for equality in the built environment is critical to ensuring the long-term success of a building to allow for more academic voices to be heard and encourage a diverse mix of people to share ideas.
Current access issues: many of the buildings a King’s have stepped access into and around them. Due to the age of the buildings the staircases do vary in materials and layout, and consideration must be given to the viability of interventions in precious historic assets.
Intuitive access
MICA specialises in creative solutions to existing conditions, particularly in historic contexts. We combine our expertise in graphic design, signage and way-finding, with judicious interventions to heritage settings to ensure that the experience of a person with physical disabilities is intuitive and smooth, with access to all shared amenities provide.
Lincoln’s Inn new and historic library link creates step free access to upper levels of historic building
Below: western end of King’s library has barriers to access
Left: New step free access to Collegiate spaces below east terrace unlocking access to all Collegiate spaces at Lincoln’s Inn
Above and right: Careful rotation of the spiral stair stone steps at Lincoln’s Inn by one tread allowed a step free route to be created at ground floor between new and old
East Ham Civic Centre extension link to Town Hall
Right:
Above: Bodley’s access
The East Range at Mansfield College allows stepfree access from the front court to Hall, Chapel, buttery and teaching spaces
Below: Bodley’s staircase
Consolidating Sustainability
Strategy Strands
A Greener King’s
Consolidating strands
King’s has a long-standing history of developing strategy and policies from organic grassroots movements. We would build on the excellent work already undertaken to de-carbonise the estate in tandem with interventions and upgrades to building fabric
Regenerative design overlay
Maximising the opportunities of Kings assets, buildings, land, water to develop a combined strategy which enriches the sustainable and regenerative position of Kings.
Being a good guardian and ancestor, creating a just space for its students and working with nature to improve buildings and landscapes.
Improving opportunities for active travel
QUEENS’ COLLEGE
Maximising renewable energy provision through solar/ GSHP/ ASHP systems Passive design: orientation and massing
Green roofs, rainwater harvesting and water management
PRINCIPALCOLLEGEAXIS POTENTIAL
CLARE COLLEGE
Resilience in water and flood management
PIECE
FELLOWS’ GARDEN
Protecting, enhancing, increasing biodiversity across the site
Enhancing links with landscape and local context Water-source Heat pump
Regenerative design overlay
The net zero trajectory
Delivering long-term site-wide benefits and a trajectory to net zero by 2030.
Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year) 145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year)
sequestration] other material TBC subject to further target < 750 kgCO₂e/m2[2030+B4 Target]
Carbon Ecology Wellbeing
Working with you to build on the pathway to net zero mapped by Ramboll, consolidating the strategy with proposed spatial interventions that emerge from the masterplan consultation.
kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
Connectivity and Transport (kgCO2e/km/person/year) Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections) measures
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts) Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
Ensuring that energy savings and cost benefits analysed alongside capital outlay and operational impacts.
and kgCO2/m2/year)
145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
Water Cycle (litres/person/day)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target and kgCO2/m2/year)
subject to further
Target]
(20.81 TBC) RIBA 2030 Target for new office <10 l/p/day 225m2 rainwater harvesting at roof level
458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with Services engineer and BREEAM consultant, to bring down to target
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
Land Use and Biodiversity (increase in species) Significant improvement in planting, biodiversity and species Cycle Value (£/m2) Not yet calculated (POE anticipated)
(kgCO2e/km/person/year) Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections)
Communicating in a simple terms through graphic means that all members of the community can readily digest. Building in flexibility to adapt to changing conditions over coming decades
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
Design Performance Assessment 2024
Extracts from MICA’s interactive de-carbonisation model which offers simple scenario testing for various project priorities, effectiveness, the capital costs, operational costs and carbon reductions. Kings De-carbonisation plan (Ramboll)
Working with King’s to develop net zero strategy for new build and refurbishment projects in line with Ramboll de-carbonisation sequence
Combining masterplan, energy strategy and biodiversity measures
Wellbeing
day)
Regenerative buildings
Carbon Ecology
Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year) 145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
Developing new and existing buildings to standards and with sustainable principles the heart
Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year) sequestration] other material TBC subject to further target < 750 kgCO₂e/m2[2030+B4 Target]
Carbon Ecology Wellbeing
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target
458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
measures
Achieving the King’s net zero strategy within circular economy principles to develop low carbon buildings and existing structures optimised by fabric improvement fuelled by renewable energy
Wellbeing
Connectivity and Transport (kgCO2e/km/person/year) Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections)
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
Operational Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year) 145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
Water Cycle (litres/person/day)
Connectivity
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target
Embodied Energy and CO2 (kWh/m2/year and kgCO2/m2/year) carbon sequestration] other material TBC subject to further appointment - target < 750 kgCO₂e/m2[2030+B4 Target] 458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target and kgCO2/m2/year) subject to further
Target]
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
(20.81 TBC) RIBA 2030 Target for new office <10 l/p/day 225m2 rainwater harvesting at roof level
458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with Services engineer and BREEAM consultant, to bring down to target
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
Cycle Value (£/m2) Not yet calculated (POE anticipated)
(kgCO2e/km/person/year) Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections)
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
Land Use and Biodiversity (increase in species) Significant improvement in planting, biodiversity and species
Nature and well-being
Protecting and improving biodiversity, water and well-being for
kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy to bring down to target
(870 kg including B4)
Wellbeing SUSTAINABILITY
King’s
and within Cambridge
review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy to bring down B4 to target
(Existing site with excellent connections)
Wellbeing
schedule (Existing building, new light wells pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
calculated (Re-use of building)
MICA will work with the gardens team to help finalise the biodiversity strategy and bring on a suitable landscape architect to complete the Gardens Masterplan, enshrining biodiversity achievements and building on them to improve water use in the arid Cambridge setting. Enhance well-being through healthy buildings, access to nature and active travel.
How is it measured?
145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
with excellent quality and routes improved
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target
community improved value
458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
kgCO2/m2/year)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
145.6 kWh/m2GIA/yr (41 kWh base build)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, TM54 energy model assessor, to bring down to target
2030 Target for new office <10 l/p/day harvesting at roof level
Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections)
Standard trees planted in pits with soil volumes less than two-thirds of the projected canopy area of the mature tree.
Groundcover planting.
Attenuation (mandatory)
Cambridge City Council guidance on storm-water management requires attenuation on site. All proposed new built sites to incorporate.
Rainwater
Harvesting rainwater for reuse in irrigation is low-cost and good futureproofing against irrigation restrictions. Can be installed as an intercept within attenuation systems. Recommended for all new and existing buildings, with priority given to those with planned works to roofs/gutters.
kgCO2/m2/year) further 458.5 kgCO2/m2 (870 kg including B4)
Amenity grassland (species-poor, regularly mown lawn).
review in Stage 3 with Services engineer consultant, to bring down to target
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
Design team to review in Stage 3 with NDY, WLCA energy model assessor, to bring down B4 to target
improvement in planting, biodiversity and species
Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
(kgCO2e/km/person/year) Not calculated (Existing site with excellent connections)
calculated (POE anticipated)
Spaced designed with excellent quality and routes improved
Refer summary schedule (Existing building, new light wells optimised to sun pattern, strategic flexible office layouts)
Sustainability Design Performance Assessment 2024
Sustainable community improved value
Not yet calculated (Re-use of building)
Water features (chlorinated) or unplanted detention basins.
Permeable paving.
Sealed surfaces (e.g. concrete, asphalt, waterproofing, stone).
Christ’s College example of water strategy
Grey-water
Harvesting grey-water (water used for washing or in kitchens) requires a series of filtration tanks and significant plant space. This is recommended for all new build aspects.
Black-water (challenging)
Harvesting black-water (water that has been used to flush toilets) is challenging and requires extensive plant space or landscape filtration beds.
Wild-flower meadow - a biodiversity journey
How will we accomplish this?
Programme
GATHER TEST RECOMMEND
Gathering and analysing information
Kick off meeting, establish key questions to solve, agree engagement strategy
Strategy and need review
16 weeks
Opportunities analysis
Development of design proposals
Launch consultation to Students and Fellows
Logistics and cost analysis
Summarise research, present early trajectory of design thoughts
Engagement with College
Analysis of options
19 weeks
Report on proposed solutions
Summary of College input at the end of term
Project meeting /workshop
Masterplan Issue
Masterplan draft report circulated to Fellowship
Solicit feedback
Cost plan refinement
20 weeks
Masterplan report finalised
Programme
GATHER TEST RECOMMEND
Analysis of options EASTER LONG VACATION
Gathering and analysing information
Kick off meeting, establish key questions to solve, agree engagement strategy
Strategy and need review
16 weeks
Opportunities analysis
Development of design proposals
Launch consultation to students and Fellows
Logistics and cost analysis
Summarise research, present early trajectory of design thoughts
Engagement with College
19 weeks
Report on proposed solutions
Summary of College input at the end of term
Project meeting /workshop
Masterplan Issue
Masterplan draft report circulated to Fellowship
Solicit feedback
Cost plan refinement
20 weeks
Masterplan report finalised
Programme
LONG VACATION
GATHER TEST RECOMMEND
Gathering and analysing information
Kick off meeting, establish key questions to solve, agree engagement strategy
Strategy and need review
16 weeks
Opportunities analysis
Development of design proposals
Launch consultation to students and Fellows
Logistics and cost analysis
Summarise research, present early trajectory of design thoughts
Engagement with College
Analysis of options
19 weeks
Report on proposed solutions
Summary of College input at the end of term
Project meeting /workshop
Masterplan Issue
Masterplan draft report circulated to Fellowship
Solicit feedback
Cost plan refinement
20 weeks
Masterplan report finalised
Why Us
30 years experience of collegiate masterplanning
Stakeholder focus
Working in sensitive and listed settings
Award winning sustainable design
Retrofit and Passivhaus expertise
Net zero leadership
Extensive range from strategy to detail
Inspiring spaces and places
Proven experience in delivering masterplans
Incremental and visionary approach
Thank You
Relevant Experience
Masterplanning Experience
Mapping Christ’s Future Masterplan, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Wellington College Masterplan, Berkshire, UK
Stowe School, Buckinghamshire ARCO Building, Keble College, Oxford
Greenwich Maritime Masterplan, London
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London
Jesus College Masterplan, Oxford
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Working in dense, historic, iconic urban environments
Fora co-working space department store retrofit, Oxford
H B Allen Centre, Keble College, Oxford
Gray’s Inn, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Market Street public realm masterplan, Oxford
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Mapping Christ’s Future: improve access, utilisation and carbon
Client: Christ’s College Cambridge
Dates: 2023 Masterplan
2024-2026 Lodge
2024-2025 Bodley Library
Scope: Masterplanning, Lead Consultant, Architecture, Environmental Strategy, MEP, Feasibility Study, Heritage, Consultation
Relevance
– Large and varied historic campus
– A clear pathway to 30% carbon reductions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2048
– Multiple choices to achieve goals and comprehensive phasing strategy
– Deep retrofit strategy for all buildings to achieve 30% energy savings to accord with maintenance plan
– Now an adopted strategy and underway
– Complex stakeholder engagement - using tailored consultation methods for a range of students, staff and alumni
– Strategy for development and regeneration of historic, Listed buildings in a constrained urban setting
Sketches of proposed improved education and accommodation facilities within refurbished existing building
Communication strategy and varied techniques to engage with client and stakeholders
Jesus College, Oxford
Living and Learning in the commercial heart of the city
Client: Jesus College Oxford
Dates: Appointment following design competition:
Phase 1 – 2017 - 2020
Phase 2 – 2022 (Accommodation)
Phase 3 – 2022 (Education Spaces and Landscape)
Phase 4 – Ongoing works to Retail spaces.
Scope: Masterplanning, MICA Lead Consultant, Architect
RIBA 0-7, Conservation, Landscape, Interior Design, Way-finding and Signage
Relevance
– A new gatehouse for the College facilitates outreach and access, and makes Jesus more accessible both physically and virtually
– Cross-over between academic life of College and the City
– Mixed-use project, incorporating student residential accommodation, academic teaching spaces, communal social spaces, retail and NHS health centre
– Working with multi-headed client, funders and council
– New build and refurbishment of historic college spaces
– Ground source heat pump and solar panels providing 40% on-site energy generation
The fourth quad open to social gathering and events
Flexible student bedroom
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Iterative testing for student living across dispersed sites
Client: Princeton University
Dates: August 2024 to May 2026
Scope: Site selection, site planning, concept design
Relevance
– Site selection for a new-build student accommodation development
– Testing capacity of a range of sites
– Multi-headed stakeholder organisations convened by design team
– Aligning values at the outset of the project through a collaborative visioning session
– Engaging with layered governance from Trustees to day-to-day operatives
– Highly constrained sites with environmental considerations ranging from floodplains to contaminated land
– Testing all sites for renewable energy potential through geoexchange wells and photovoltaics
– Integration of operations and accommodation
Interactive design workshop at MICA’s Camden office
Regenerative design for successful communities
Wellington College, Berkshire
Sensitive integration of education in a woodland setting
Client: Wellington College
Dates: 2014 - ongoing
Masterplan
Sixth Form Centre
Well-being Centre
Woodland Quad
Infrastructure + site wide improvements
Scope: Masterplanner, Lead Consultant + Designer, De-carbonisation Strategy, Interior Design, Landscape, RIBA 0-7
Relevance
– A new gatehouse for the College facilitates outreach and access, and makes Jesus more accessible both physically and virtually
– Cross-over between academic life of College and the City
– Mixed-use project, incorporating student residential accommodation, academic teaching spaces, communal social spaces, retail and NHS health centre
– Working with multi-headed client, funders and council
– New build and refurbishment of historic college spaces
– Ground source heat pump and solar panels providing 40% on-site energy generation
Wellington Masterplan
Student bedroom with views to the woodland Elizabeth Boarding House
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Holistic review of estates allocation of space an environmental improvements
Client: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Dates: Old Hall 2016, Great Hall 2018, Extension completion 2019, Access Review ongoing
Scope: Masterplanner, Architectural Services RIBA 0-7, Lead Designer, Contract Administrator, Heritage and Conservation, Management, Detail planning and Listed building consents, conservation plan, revenue generation, De-carbonisation Strategy
Relevance
– Complex logistics on a constrained site
– Additional reader space, storage and office while preserving existing archives and historic interiors
– Transformative masterplan
– Low energy and low carbon strategies
– 60% expansion of library space for London’s oldest working Library
– New archive for historic documents, artefacts and artwork to BS 4971:2017 & BS EN 16893:2018
– Significant improvements to quality of spaces and accessibility
Section illustration of Collegiate estate renewable energy strategy
Development at Lincoln’s Inn intensifies use of existing building stock, East Terrace reinstated after construction and planting used to embed within sensitive setting
Project Agora, Gonville & Caius Cambridge
Retaining commercial income while doubling the accommodation capacity of a city centre asset
Client: Gonville and Caius College Cambridge
Dates: 2024 - 2025
Scope: Masterplanning, stakeholder engagement, energy masterplan, cost modelling, phasing scenarios, commercial viability
Relevance
– Integration with existing College facilities in a non-contiguous site
– A fully net zero development with internal ambient loop for district heating and cooling
– Existing building frame re-use for reduced embodied carbon and improved site logistics in highly constrained city-centre site
– Engagement with whole college community and fundraising efforts through alumni engagement and early communications
– Alignment of approach with wider College vision
Proposed visual across raised internal court with views towards King’s Chapel
Holborn Links Masterplan, London
Mixed-use area regeneration
Client: Triangle Property 2015
Edmond de Rothschild and Tristan Capital Partners 2017–2019
Dates: 2018 - 2021
Norfolk House 2020 - 2023
Scope: Masterplanner, Lead Architect RIBA 0-2
Masterplanning, Architecture Space Planning
Relevance
– Strategic review of historic estate with a varied mix of building types
– High quality co-working environments
– Improved entrances
– Mixed-use project, incorporating retail and commercial uses
– Stair core and new lifts in existing buildings
– Open, flexible office plates
– Meetings with Camden Planning and wider stakeholder consultation.
