Thorndun Park
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Stonewater
Location
Chard, Somerset
Description
Affordable housing development for 23 dwellings
The 23-home scheme is a mix of one and two-bedroom flats and two, three and four-bedroom houses, with 16 properties for affordable rent and seven for Rent to Buy.
The new development includes an attractive area of landscaped public open space, featuring benches and carved wooden stepping logs, for families to enjoy.
BoonBrown was appointed as project architect, town planning consultant and principal designer from concept design through to planning and technical delivery, RIBA stages 1-6.
Tintinhull Village Hall
Client
Tintinhull Village Hall Working Group
Location
Tintinhull, Somerset
Description
New replacement village hall
The design of this 5,200 sq ft hall has been a community effort with consistent input from the Parish Council, local Working Group members and the village residents.
The proposed building is specifically designed to help meet the needs of the local community whose requirements are not being accommodated by the existing facilities or capabilities of the old hall.
The new building offers the community a number of flexible multi-user spaces which can be used independently or as a whole also addressing the needs and access requirements of both elderly and disabled members of the local community to foster a truly inclusive environment to secure the needs of the village now and in the future.
This project was Heritage Lottery Funded and BoonBrown assisted the client team throughout the application process.
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Toller View
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Private client
Location
South Petherton, Somerset
Description
Contemporary eco-friendly 4 bed family house
The design of an expansive and contemporary eco-sensitive family house in a traditional Somerset village, benefits from a form and layout which embraces passive solar gain for winter warming and brise soleil for summer shading.
Stack ventilation and mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR) aids summer cooling and the house accommodates heat pump technology and grey water harvesting to lower energy consumption.
The building fabric has a glulam timber frame with infill panels of glazing and white brickwork. The curved timber roof ‘drapes’ over the internal accommodation expressing the single and 2-storey elements. The roof is finished with sedum planting to increase on-site biodiversity and provide interest for the homeowners when looking down at the roof from a higher level. This bespoke design is sensitive and organic, sitting harmoniously within the landscape.
Tonedale Mills
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Hymore Ltd
Location
Wellington, Somerset
Description
Regeneration of 13 acre, Grade II listed former textile mill site
At the heart of the vision for Tonedale Mill was the commitment to the sympathetic regeneration and sensitive transformation of this neglected historic textile factory into a stunning and vibrant residential and commercial community.
This exemplary design sees the conversion of a 13-acre Grade II* Listed former textile mill site in Wellington, Somerset into 225 dwellings with ancillary artisan and business quarters, a café and visitor centre, as well as a museum to display items recovered from the site.
BoonBrown’s plans protect the intrinsic charm of the buildings whilst providing modern facilities and creating a new sustainable community and thriving live/work environment.
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Top Road House
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Private client
Location
Shipham, Winscombe
Description
New build home, including landscape masterplan of the property grounds
The design of the house was inspired by both the historical agricultural buildings and mining activity that once occupied the site. BoonBrown acted as Architect and Landscape Architect for this project, which included designing the dwelling, preparing and submitting the planning application, preparing a Landscape Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) and garden masterplan that tied the various landscape elements together.
The LVIA was used to inform the masterplan and the building itself. Local materials were used to reflect the historical context, and existing retaining walls were rebuilt to tie into the facade of the house. Historic clay tiles, timber cladding, green roofs and strategic tree planting were used to screen and soften the development. The build made use of the natural topography, with a large portion of it built into the hillside, with large glass windows framing impressive views towards the Bristol Channel and Wales beyond.
Trinity Manor
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Barchester Healthcare
Location
Sherborne, Dorset
Description
64-bed care home
The 64-bedroom care home is split over three floors. It is a single block of two and three storeys which has been carefully designed to fit comfortably within the existing street scene. The elevation has been broken down into various elements which, whilst reducing the overall scale, also add depth and interest to the frontages, and creates varied and animated street scenes.
The design of the care home is not a standard model. It has been carefully designed to work well within the context of the site, which has a predominantly “Arts and Crafts” character. The use of traditional high-quality “Arts and Crafts” materials such as brick and plain tiles, will provide a strong and attractive finish to the building.
Externally a secure, landscaped sensory garden is provided in addition to dense planting and trees around the perimeter.
Wattisham Aviation Training Centre
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Aviation Training International Ltd
Location
Wattisham, Suffolk
Description
New Apache maintainer training facility
The project is located within a military airfield at Wattisham in Suffolk. The client is a private consortium who provide Apache Attack helicopter pilot training facilities from existing premises on the same airfield.
The new bespoke building was constructed to enable the centre to provide training services for the maintenance of Apache Aircraft Systems. The project was generated by the need to relocate similar services from their previous site in Arborfield to Wattisham as part of Ministry of Defence programming.
The new training centre encompasses 21,500 sq ft of floor space which includes a support workshop, storage and welfare facilities.
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WestSide
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Bellway Homes
Location
Brentford, London
Description
138 apartments
This completed Bellway development comprises the central part of this large urban redevelopment adjacent the M4 corridor in West London. The scheme comprises 138 mixed tenure apartments and duplexes in 3 blocks set on a landscaped podium deck above full basement car park.
Cladding is hand set brickwork, zinc and Rockclad rain screen off SFS and an RC frame. Buildings exceed 18m and require a fire engineered design solution to satisfy building regulations due to excessive corridor travel.
Considerable redesign of apartment layouts was required in the design phase to optimise the floor plans and to achieve LHDG, LTH, CfSH 4, wheelchair and HQI standards.
Yardgrove House
Client
Mr and Mrs Bourne
Location
Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Description
Renewal of dilapidated farmhouse
Boon Brown acted as architect and town planners for this elegant home, situated in 10 acres of agricultural land which originally included a derelict stone farmhouse that had previously been divided into two dwellings. Adjoining the farmhouse was a yard with a traditional barn and agricultural barns formerly associated with dairy farming, surrounded by a number of small paddocks. The farmhouse had Georgian origins and was sympathetically extended and refurbished to a very high standard to provide spacious family-oriented accommodation arranged over two floors. The new home extends to about 6,500 sq ft with free-flowing accommodation and light, expansive rooms on the ground floor. Upstairs are five principal bedrooms with four bath/shower rooms. Part of the rear wing has been arranged to provide a one-bedroom self-contained annex, which can be occupied independently to the main house with separate access via the rear courtyard.
To complement the main house, a detached garage block with two garages and double car port was constructed of stone under a slate roof.
Awards
2015 LABC Southwest Building Excellence Awards | Winner – Best Change of Use of an Existing Building
Yeovil Accident & Emergency
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
East Somerset NHS Trust
Location
Yeovil, Somerset
Description
2 storey extension to hospital
This project incorporated the complete renovation of the Accident & Emergency Department and Day Surgery facilities, together with a new two storey extension to the hospital.
This project required great attention to detail, not only in terms of the specialist equipment and finishes, but also in order to maintain full operational status of the hospital throughout the 18 month contract.
Facilities provided as part of the works included: day theatre, endoscopy facilities, accident and emergency reception, waiting areas, treatment cubicles, nurses stations, resuscitation facilities, scrub up areas, consultation rooms, staff facilities and also new ambulance bay.
As part of the design and installation of these facilities, Hospital Technical Memorandum was in place – overriding building regulations and stipulating requirements for specialist anti-bacterial paint finishes, sealed light switches and skirtings, air testing of rooms prior to opening, specialist lighting, piped gases etc. All of these requirements were incorporated into a successful design, which has substantially improved the whole environment for both patients and staff.