MICA Living and Learning Brochure - Universities and Colleges 2023

Universities and Colleges Living and Learning

MICA is an award winning practice working in the UK and internationally across architecture, heritage and landscape projects. We work at all scales and levels, from urban design to individual buildings, interiors and furniture, designed for long term institutional sustainability.

We are pleased to enclose this brochure of our long, strong track record of work in schools, colleges and universities with a focus on recent student accommodation projects which create inspiring and uplifting environments for living and learning.

Our long history of designing sustainably was developed as Rick Mather Architects and is followed through in the ethos and award winning track record of MICA.

Our experience

Clive Booth Student Village, Oxford Brookes

1035 Undergraduate rooms

13 buildings townhouse and flats

Kitchens, social and common spaces, nursery

Currently on site, first completion December

2023

H B Allen Centre, Keble College Oxford

250 graduate study rooms 30 kitchens, common rooms, cafe, research centre and external works, academic hotel, 12,250m2

Completed September 2019

Stowe School, Buckinghamshire

212 communal bedrooms, flexible teaching facilities, 4 staff family living facilities, common rooms, art school, gardens and terraces

Completed 2008 to 2019

Keble College, Oxford

113 study bedrooms, 72 refurbishment rooms: 1 + 2 pairs, shared kitchen/dining rooms, 250-seat flexible multi-purpose theatre, dining hall, seminar rooms

Completed 1995 - 2002

Large scale student living

Cheng Yu Tung building, Jesus College Oxford

68 en-suite rooms (4 accessible), 4 studio flats (fellows) 6-10 students per kitchen, retail, teaching facilities, digital hub, landscape, café, exhibition space, gym

Completed September 2022

Hands Building, Mansfield College Oxford

73 en-suite rooms (3 accessible)

2 fellows accommodation Institute with library and office spaces and lecture theatre, landscape

Completed September 2017

University of East Anglia

Constable Terrace and Nelson Court, Townhouses and flats, 800 graduate rooms

Completed 1993

Pembroke College, Oxford

77 graduate study bedrooms, kitchens and common rooms, 8 studio flats

Completed August 2023

We are a team of 22 qualified architects within a wider group of around 30 people. We are industry leaders in designing exemplary low energy masterplans and developments in complex settings, including both the earliest and largest Passivhaus developments, carbon negative structures and recently the ‘greenest’ building of its kind in Oxford.

Affiliations

Practice Partners W Programme

Paradigm Network

Architects Declare signatory

Advocates of Low Energy transformation Initiative (LETI)

Advocates of RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge

New London Architecture, Partners

Accreditations

RIBA Chartered Practice

RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect

Registered Architect, State of New York

Certified Passivhaus Designer

LEED Building Design and Construction

Accredited Professional

UKAS ISO 9001, 14001, 45001

B Corp, Pending

We are signatories for RIBA

Cities Streets Buildings Paths Spaces Parts

Services offered:

Architecture

Masterplanning

Urban Design

Conservation Architecture

Landscape Design

Estate Decarbonisation Planning

Deep Energy Retrofit

Adaptive Reuse

Interior Design

Model Making

Passivhaus Design

Planning Support

Strategic Advice + Consultancy

Graphic Design

BIM + BIM Management

MICA’s team brings extensive experience building new homes for students in sensitive environments: we have completed more than 330 homes for students in England in the last two years with a further 1,230 in development: as a result we have a strong sense of 21st century young people and their values. For MICA, each project is a blank page: we realize that our clients’ needs vary and therefore we are good listeners and work collaboratively to envision high quality residences to create the foundation environment for learning.

We design to Passivhaus principles, carefully controlling solar gains and preventing overheating, while providing ideal ventilation, for student homes that provide optimal study spaces.

Student Homes

West House, Stowe School

Cheng Yu Tung building, Jesus College

Designing the interior of the room to nurture learning, provide a place of respite and relaxation, an intimate space to socialise, communicate but also relax and reflect. Getting this space right unlocks the project, and becomes the building block for the whole building. Establishing this module with the insight of stakeholders gives the reassurance that the resulting building will serve the students needs. Because the room is so important we begin the design of quite detailed elements (size and placement of the desk relative to the window, bed and storage relationship, etc) right at the start of the process, essentially designing from the inside out, while also working from the outside in.

Diagrammatic layout shows the potential to maximise efficiency through the largest number of rooms served by a single staircase. Short corridors create a sense of intimacy, and accessible bedrooms are located with immediate proximity to circulation and social space.

Applying our research and specifications to develop sustainable proposals

Living spaces developed from experience and research

MICA have been at the forefront of low energy design for over 40 years. We recognise our environmental responsibilities are part of a wider picture, and that our commitment to the environment runs through everything we do. From this, we have developed our own Holistic Environmental Strategy to help guide us and our clients to deliver excellence in sustainability. It is also how we deliver social impact, driving sustainable development and embodying environmental stewardship in all our projects.

It is intended as a tool to define the shared priorities for a project and the performance-based metrics required to measure success. At a practice level it identifies areas of strength, opportunities for knowledge sharing and priorities for future research and development.

The Strategy focuses on six main themes which are then detailed into a series of criteria to be monitored across the life of a project. These criteria are aligned with the UN Sustainable Goals and RIBA 2030 Sustainable Outcomes and refer to further detailed guidance from LETI, BREEAM, WELL being standard, LEED, NABERS and the UKGBC Net Zero Framework. It is a live document that is refined as we test it on our projects and updated to reflect in-house research and changing industry standards.

The Strategy also shapes how we operate as a business and our commitment to the highest standard of social and environmental performance. Key criteria include staff wellbeing, quality assurance and the annual review of our carbon footprint, which can be found here.

Through this we can offer our clients a fully comprehensive approach to how best to tackle key issues and deliver strategies towards net zero carbon.

Holistic sustainability

Thinking strategically about how we live Cities

Promoting vibrant, diverse and healthy public spaces Streets

Buildings

Delivering high performance, low energy regenerative design solutions

Creating opportunities for people and communities Paths

Creating healthy and uplifting environments Spaces

Putting it all together Parts

MICA views the situation of any project from a holistic sustainability starting point. We work with clients to help them define the pathway to net zero for their estates, from the financing and procurement, to the energy strategy across campuses, to the design of new buildings or adaptive reuse for minimal energy consumption and increased biodiversity. We are pioneers in low-energy design, in alternative energy sources, low embodied carbon construction and we create optimal environments in which people thrive.

Ground Source Heat Pumps at Keble College

Lyric Theatre light-filled atrium BREEAM Excellent

Illustrative section through new accommodation buildings and refurbished block in constrained urban historic setting

Regenerative Campus

Wellington College, Berkshire New Energy Centre feeds existing historic campus

Our architecture places the experience of the user at the heart of the project. This begins from the earliest stakeholder engagement at the commencement of a project, and we warmly welcome the opportunity to interact with our clients in creative and meaningful ways to draw out the brief for the project.

Human centered design, with excellent daylighting but controlled glare; thermal comfort with taking advantage of passive solar gains, biophilia through internal and external greenery that also mitigates heat islands, all lead to places that uplift the users. This is embodied as much in residential and education spaces, as it is in sport, dance and other creative physical activities.

Robin Geffen cafe at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College

Wellbeing Centre at Wellington College

Hicks Bolton landscaped playspace

Health and Wellbeing

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

We create inspirational learning environments by answering students social, learning, and working needs. These types of welcoming, pleasurable spaces encourage deep emotional attachments between students and the University, while offering unique ways of collaborating and interacting with fellow learners and information.

We have worked with pioneers in academic and industry fields to create spaces for virtual reality experiences, interactive digital hubs, and centers for mobile robotics, all of which feed into our ever-evolving bank of knowledge on education space design.

We are equipped with the tools to collaborate with educators and re-think the types of spaces that encourage creative learning and critical thinking.

Oxford Robotics Institute, Keble College Flexible workshop and experimentation space to allow for a diverse and developing programme of research.

Future Learning

Cheng Yu Tung digital hub, Jesus College

MICA is adept at understanding the potential in existing buildings and adapting the to new uses, capitalising on the existing embodied carbon, and giving it a new lease of life, breathing new life into existing fabric.

We are equally comfortable working with historic and modern building fabric: we replaced a dingy undercroft with generous social dining space at Centrepoint in London’s Soho. Our work for the East Ham civic centre created a new sixth form college within a former technical college, brining unexpected flexibility to the historic asset. Our deep energy retrofit approach to deep energy retrofit means the new buildings are efficient to operate long into the future.

North entrance restored to expose original finishes

Newham Sixthform new science classrooms and laboratories

Lincoln’s Inn library reworked stair

Adaptive re-use

Hayward and de Breyne, Keble College Oxford 72 rooms, 4 phases student accommodation refurbishment

Goodenough College, Refurbishment of Post graduate and academic fellows in central Bloomsbury

We know that the comfort of the pillow matters as much (or more) to the user as the loveliness of the setting and the impact of the facade. MICA guides clients in selection of everything from hard and soft furnishings suitably robust for vigorously used social spaces, through to the fabrics and colours of blinds, curtains and pinboards in the more inmate spaces of study bedrooms.

We create inspiring, relaxing and uplifting communal spaces. Large common rooms can offer basic cooking facilities for student use, which can be secured away for other events. The spaces will be designed to be open and inviting, connecting seamlessly to outdoor space to expand the space and encourage time outdoors all year round. In addition to this we suggest smaller, more intimate and reflective common spaces which allow for smaller groups to gather and socialise or study together in close proximity to their rooms.

Student dining and common room space with views out

West House social space for students in common space outside study rooms

Light-filled, generous interior circulation spaces Flexible study space with cafe facilities

Communal Spaces

H B Allen Centre cafe and common spaces

East range cafeteria, kitchen and study space for students, with access to new outdoor terrace at Mansfield College Oxford

Over the last twenty years our team has helped the University of Oxford to navigate the substantial pedagogical and typological transformations that have occurred in higher education, brought about by the increasing demand for 24 hour accessible, socially innovative, and digitally sophisticated spaces for research and learning. Our emphasis on critical thinking and creative problem-solving, along with extensive client engagement, has allowed the creation of dynamic and flexible buildings that blur the boundaries of learning and social spaces, all within the strict confines of a historic city and its heritage buildings.

ARCO, Keble College 1995

Keble College Parks Road Campus

Cheng Yu Tung Building, Jesus College 2022

University of Oxford

“We are interested in buildings as pieces of the city, in the weave of urban fabric, in making places, in efficiency, in environmental design, in new and old, and in sensitive and respectful design.

Building in Oxford demands these considerations whilst also inviting rewarding client collaborations and unique opportunities for architects and for architecture.”

- Stuart Cade, Director at MICA

We have worked with Keble College, one of the largest residential colleges of Oxford University, continuously since 1995, completing two new student accommodation buildings, various renovation projects and a new bike shelter. Our largest project with Keble to date, the H B Allen Centre completed in 2019. This ongoing collaboration has been fruitful for all parties, and we regularly engage their alumni and other donors with presentations of our work at social events.

Project Stats

Masterplan (1994)

Porters Lodge: new accessible College entrance and lodge combined with new accommodation and sets (1992)

Arco: 93 study bedrooms, shared kitchen/dining rooms, seminar rooms (1995)

Hayward and de Breyne: 4 phases Student accommodation refurbishment, 72 rooms in total (1998 to 2002)

Sloane Robinson: 250-seat flexible multi-purpose theatre, dining hall and recital room, 6 seminar rooms and 20 study bedrooms (2002)

Library Refurbishment: feasibility study for new library entrance and step-free access combined with additional reader space (2018)

Liddon Quad: landscape amendment to central Keble quad to provide step-free access to all door thresholds including Hall, Chapel and Library (2019)

Bike Shelter (2016)

H B Allen Centre: 250 study bedrooms, 30 kitchens, common rooms, cafe, research centre and external works (2019)

“The client was rightly delighted with the solution which resulted in such high standard accommodation, built at half the cost of a traditional Oxbridge residential building. Nevertheless it is a fitting neighbour to those by Butterfield.”

- Judges comment, British Construction Industry Awards

Sloane Robinson 2002

Conference spaces with views out to Newman Quad

25-year relationship with Keble College

Acland House supported on piles whilst basement slab is cast below

Subterranean collaborative learning and research centre

Home for innovation and entrepreneurship

The H B Allen Centre integrates a historic TG Jackson building within the heart of the campus. Among the challenges the construction team faced was that of excavating under the Jackson Building and constructing an entirely new basement and foundations without it collapsing.

Beneath the H B Allen Centre quad, a 2,000m2 open plan space has been designed for research and laboratories. Flexibly configured, the first two tenants are the Robotics Institute and venture capital from Oxford Sciences Innovation who provide incubator and accelerator space for post-graduate enterprises.

1-3 Student Accommodation

G Research Centre

LG Mobile Robotics Institute

Street view of the building and extruded windows

Interior view of student accommodation

Student Hub

The H B Allen Centre

Student Accommodation

Student Cafe + Common Rooms spill out to 21st Century Quad

Office and Research space with access to sunken gardens

Project Stats

250 student rooms

1-3 G LG

12,2502 standalone research building

2,000m2 flexible research space

Awards

Ox Fest Prop Awards 2020, Project of the Year – Winner

Planning Awards, Placemaking Award for Design Excellence – High Commendation

A new connection across the site offers access to other facilities and provides new outdoor spaces for students to gather in

Planning the development and expansion of the University of East Anglia campus for 25 years, MICA’s masterplan identified sites for new construction by subtly changing the campus datum from a raised deck to ground level and establishing a series of buildings which created a series of ‘outdoor rooms’.

Completed buildings include the multi-award winning student housing at Constable Terrace and Nelson Court, along with the UEA Drama Studio. Catering for no less than 800 students, the new low energy accommodation and communal facilities are so efficient that no central heating is required.

Project Stats

Constable Terrace and Nelson Court, residences for 800 students

Awards

RIBA Award

Architectural Design Award Civic Trust Award

Low energy living

University of East Anglia

Clive Booth Student Village for Oxford Brookes University delivers a healthy, connected community, a ‘village’ that engages with the natural surroundings providing a healthy and vibrant setting for over 1000 students to live and study. The arrangement of the buildings, how they interact with the landscape, how the students and staff can move around them and how the spaces created foster the best possible environments for study and living are prioritised in how this village community has been developed.

Aerial view of Clive Booth Student Village in construction

Engaging with nature

Project Stats

1,035 graduate rooms

13 buildings townhouse and flats kitchens, common rooms

Clive Booth Student Village

Aerial sketch of Clive Booth Student Village

The development provides 1,035 new student rooms in buildings containing flats of up to 10 residents. Designed inside-out and outside-in with a focus on provision of the best possible student bedroom, natural lighting, maximisation of available space and configuration. Building orientation, privacy and frontages have been particularly prominent considerations in this approach.

Axonometric view of a pair of Townhouses: Ground floor and typical upper floor plans

Typical kitchen/ living space arrangement

Study bedroom with a view

Outdoor social rooms for healthy living

Clive Booth Student Village

Situated on the outskirts of the historic Oxford city centre, and directly on the River Thames, is the Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building 2. In this setting, MICA is developing additional high-quality graduate student accommodation including 77 single occupancy bedrooms, a common room and 8 studio rooms on the one site, bound together by sympathetic landscaping. and studio accommodation with views to the waterfront setting.

Aerial of Pembroke College

Built in storage and window seats with a view in student room

Student accommodation completed

A floodable building

Pembroke College, Oxford

Project Stats

77 graduate study bedrooms, kitchens and common rooms, 8 studios

To support and inform Wellington College’s decision making process, a 25 year estate development strategy was prepared by MICA to identify and explore potential development site. A range of new flexible buildings and spaces have been identified in relation to sports, performing arts, accommodation, teaching, alongside new typologies in support of social interaction and informal learning. Strategic investment in the College site wide infrastructure include new low carbon solutions, improved visitor access, and the creation of a series of new character areas to improve daily life at the College.

Woodland Quad new boarding and accessible landscape (Currently on-site)

Sixth Form Hub (currently on-site)

Wellbeing Centre (currently in design development)

Landscape Estates Wellington

Long term strategic site masterplan with accompanying enabling buildings for Wellington College, which identifies key development sites for a 25 year development programme, in spacious wooded grounds of 400 acres in and around the original Grade 1 listed Victorian school campus.

Hidden from the historic south front the Old Laundry site offers a unique experience for the College in bringing forward new boarding and day facilities. Sensitively integrated into the woodland setting that enhance connections across the College.

The boarding house is for both boys and girls with 70 beds with shared facilities, entrance staff, common space in the centre and flanked by a wing of boys and a wing of girls. The buildings are arranged around the perimeter of the site - creating a central woodland quad which brings the landscape into the lived setting and offers biodiversity enhancements

Ground

Study bedroom

Social study space with views to landscape

A new woodland quad

Wellington College

A new pastoral and Wellbeing Centre situated on the edge of Wellington College’s historic estate, provides a rare opportunity to create modern, high quality purposed built centre to support pupils in a holistic setting.

Student Wellbeing

Wellington College

Working with Stowe: 20 years experience at Stowe School from estates masterplan to delivering four new boarding houses and an Art School.

Masterplan to delivery Stowe School

“MICA brought superb master-planning and coherence to the academic area and allowed the School to develop an educational vision which has made Stowe into one of the top independent schools in the UK.”

- Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster

Working Model of masterplan

Chapel Court 2016 - 60 Boarders

Stowe West Five Boarding House

Regenerate Estates

“Stowe now offers the best teaching facility of its kind anywhere in the UK.”

- Brian Johnson, the Head of Stowe Art School

When Stowe School decided to admit females for the first time, our team were engaged to design two new dedicated boarding houses, building out the tenets of the masterplan. Situated west of Stowe House, the Queen’s and Stanhope buildings respond to the shift in geometry of the historic gardens and the context of the surrounding buildings. Accommodation for 72 girls in each block.

Stowe under construction: Regular site visits, concrete frame, completed student room

Responding to context

Queen’s and Stanhope

Queen’s and Stanhope

Peking University HSBC Business School is the highest ranking university in China, based in Beijing and Shenzhen. PHBS UK’s vision is to create a world-class environment for education that will attract the highest calibre students and promote business learning and exchange between the UK and China. The new Foxcombe Hall campus benefits from a quiet, rural setting that specifically suits postgraduate study. The new buildings will be delivered to achieve Passivhaus Classic accreditation.

Prime Passivhaus accommodation

HSBC Business School, Peking University

“The Hands Building, designed by MICA Architects, is an exemplar for student and academic accommodation, and a model off sustainability, which significantly reduces the running costs for the College.”

- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal

Embedded in setting

Hands Building, Mansfield College

The Hands Building was constructed with an innovative carbon negative CLT frame. This offers the benefit of carbon sequestration within the timber, classing the building as the greenest of its kind in Oxford.

“The Hands Building, designed by MICA Architects, is an exemplar for student and academic accommodation, and a model off sustainability, which will significantly reduce the running costs for the College.”

- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal

The Hands Building provides en-suite accommodation for 73 students

Illustration of how the level change is used to maximise potential of the new building and how landscape integrates the building into it’s setting

Hands Building Awards

Structural Timber Awards 2018, Shortlisted Oxford Preservation Trust 2018, New Building Certificate

Low-Carbon Living Hands Building, Mansfield College

The Hands Building, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

We have been engaged by Cheltenham Ladies’ College to create a 25-year masterplan, and to complete the outline design of two new boarding houses, focusing on creating stronger links through the town to better integrate the existing scattered boarding houses. The proposals will house approximately 190 students.

“We have been impressed by MICA’s understanding of our requirements, the attention to details and their ability to communicate with our stakeholders with high quality presentations.”

- Edwin Wai, Estates Project Manager

New student accommodation within heritage setting of Christ Church - Red brick complements the existing lodge and sits harmoniously in the context

Consolidation of a common route across the campus

Legacy and Future Flexibility

Cheltenham Ladies’ College

An appraisal of the built fabric, accessibility and educational facilities of the main Grade I, II* Listed campus, to improve facilities and locate sites for development and refurbishment.

Cheng Yu Tung building is a new mixed-use development for Jesus College, Oxford with ground floor retail as well as academic facilities and accommodation on the second floor upward. The lower floors of the complex add a new open-data and digital institute for Oxford University designed to promote interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange.

New en-suite study bedrooms, with fantastic views, received positive buzz from students

Kitchen, dining and common spaces are light-filled and generous. Furniture pieces were chosen to ensure design quality, longevity, and sustainability.

The College arrangement centres around a new quad, study spaces and common rooms face the outdoor space to create a social live / study environment

City Living

Jesus College Oxford

Jesus College hub building viewed from the Cornmarket thoroughfare

“With this new development, we are not just embracing the future of learning: we’re shaping it.”

- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Jesus College Principal

The development accommodates increased student numbers including mixed tenure residential spaces: graduate students and visiting fellows, resulting from its introduction of Computer Science and an expansion of postgraduate places; delivers improved space for students and staff; and provides more access to the work of the College.

The building offers external landscaped spaces arranged across multiple levels for gathering and rest, as well as flexible adaptable social spaces.

1. Digital Hub meeting rooms

2. Cafe / study space

3. Cafe kitchen / servery

4. Student bedrooms

5. Student kitchens

6. Fourth Quad

Quad as a communal space, Cheng Yu Tung Building

Building with high street frontage

In 2022 MICA was appointed to develop a masterplan for Jesus College to complete the historic College as a city block and transform a large corner of the historic site.

New student residential accommodation for students and Fellows’ frames a new courtyard providing a significant population and vibrancy. High above the quad, are a series of roof gardens and an exquisite music room, enjoying unmatched views across the ‘dreaming spires of Oxford’.

– A fifth quad

– New ensuite boarding rooms overlook the new space

– Quad is activated by common college facilities

– Improved accessibility across the site

Optimising the site

Jesus College Masterplan

MICA Architects were appointed by Christ’s College to review and prepare a long-term strategy for the College’s Domus site, in an exercise known as “Mapping Christ’s Future”. The strategy ensures that carefully planned interventions in existing buildings and potential new development align to a cohesive vision that provides a pathway towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038, provides universal access for people of all abilities, and enhances spatial efficiencies across the College.

A range of study spaces: intimate and relaxed zones, open and closed, single and double height, views to foliage

Student hub

building which currently has multiple empty under utilised spaces

in refurbished Blythe

Engaging consultation events, meetings and consultation methods.

The new Graduate Centre for Linacre College in Oxford provides a backdrop for student life, creating a new vibrant community that is well-connected and integrated into the city. The illustrative design seeks to balance the restoration and re purposing of the site’s historic buildings with the provision of state-of-the-art new spaces to create a landmark graduate centre for Linacre College.

At the centre of the site is a new quad around which the daily activities of the campus evolve. This space is animated by a central dining hall, and cafe and study centre. An existing mature oak tree acts as a focal point.

New Graduate Centre for Oxford

Linacre College

We work at the cutting edge of learning and our design team promotes robust multi-purpose spaces where ‘form follows pedagogy’, creating environments where research and teaching drive real change. MICA’s experienced team will manage the processes required to successfully fulfil the client requirements. We will use proven and well-practiced procedures, instinct based on extensive project experience, all married with clear communication skills and openness. We will establish a clear consultation programme and matrix from the outset to ensure that the many and varied discussions are held with the right people and in the right order to inform the design.

Post Occupancy Evaluation Workshop - Student Feedback informs future designs

Stakeholder engagement event

Engaging Process

We have extensive experience of designing contemporary buildings in the most sensitive and special settings. We take cues from the context, and marry these carefully with innovative contemporary interpretations to establish a special sense of identity. Using enduring materials which age well and naturally with the minimum of maintenance will be key to the long term success of the new building. Alongside contextual sensitivity, materials will be carefully chosen to reduce embodied carbon and achieve sustainability targets.

Cross Laminated Timber

Concrete with low-carbon cement replacement

Clipsham Stone

West House Facade elevation

Eco waste bricks

Careful choice of materials

Cheng Yu Tung Building Jesus College

From our London offices we have infrastructure in place to work across the world and have previously established local project teams for international cultural and education projects. We have established working relationships with reliable architect practices across the United States, and look forward to making new connections in the future. Our office employs a diverse group of individuals from around the world, with registered architects across five different countries including the USA.

A project goes through thousands of hands, but we recognise a responsibility to deliver it with a small number of individuals, team members and project sponsors, always accountable and present, whether virtually or physically.

International Collaborators:

Bruner Cott - Architect of Record

SO-IL - Architects

Charcoal Blue - theatre design (UK and USA)

Atelier 10 - sustainability consultant and services engineer (UK and USA)

Silman - structural engineers

Eckersley O’Callaghan - facade consultants and structural engineers (UK and USA)

Nitche Engineering - civil engineers

Kohler Ronan - services engineers

Cerami Associates - acoustic consultant

Cline Betteridge Bernstein - lighting design

OLIN Studio - landscape architects

Omnivore - graphic designers

Ricca Design Studios - kitchen design

Stuart Lynn - cost consultant

Jensen Hughes - fire engineers (UK and USA)

Working in the USA

Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts

Baton Rouge visioning project

Metropolitan Museum of Art Plaza with Olin

3d printed protoype of digital hub

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

In addition to MICA’s ongoing strategic masterplanning for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, our team is working in Pune, Mubai to deliver a major new college complex for Wellington College International, and also have early stage education college projects in the Middle East, Japan, Nigeria and India.

International work

Services. As a practice we have developed forward looking models across multiple sectors: cultural, transport, civic, and in education. MICA continuously evaluates and researches best practice and future trends across all areas of work, education and learning practices. Industries served include: Masterplanning, Creative Industries, Modern Methods of Construction, Green and circular economies, Low carbon – environmental, Healthy Streets, and Regeneration and Planning. Services provided include:

– Architecture

– Masterplanning + Urban Design

– Conservation Architecture + Heritage

– Landscape + Public Realm Design

– Net Zero Strategy + Sustainability

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Estate Decarbonisation Planning, Deep Energy Retrofit +

Adaptive Reuse

– Interior Design + Furniture Fixtures and Equipment

– Space Planning

– Planning Support

– Graphics + Brand Enhancement

– Signage and Wayfinding

– Passivhaus Design + Environmental Design

– Principal Designer + Construction Design Management

– Engagement + Consultation

– Project Management + Contract Administration

– BIM Co-ordination + Management

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Research, Development + Innovation

Public Relations + Marketing

– Visualisations + 3D modelling + Virtual Reality

– Physical Model Making

Consultation. We are a friendly and collaborative team and enjoy working closely with clients, consultants and communities to both deliver buildings and champion masterplans. We are medium-sized and nimble enough to adapt and change to suit and often balance the need to challenge a status-quo whilst listening and heeding. To build consensus and buy-in, we understand a need for an approach which maintains openness, allowing people to contribute. Fundraising. We have significant experience in working with donors and fund raisers and fully understand the process involved for securing funding and support for major capital projects from a wide variety of public and private sources. We know how to present and develop proposals that appeal to donors and have been instrumental in bringing key funders into projects.

“Amazing”

- Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II Visiting the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn