Started: 1 June 1996
Client: FCO

Jordan+Bateman Architects were originally commissioned to develop options for extending the existing High Commission to process additional Visa’s. Jordan+Bateman Architects were then appointed to provide a new building within the existing grounds. This enabled the Mission to continue working within the existing facilities and then decant to the new building with minimal disruption to services or staff. The proposed new build provided 22 additional interview booths to meet the client’s needs, along with associated offices, processing and public waiting area.

The building used a limited pallet of materials to create an elegant building that made the best use of available local materials and resources. Externally canopies were provided to shade waiting applicants, and shade the exterior of the building, reducing solar gain and glare.

Jordan+Bateman Architects have recently been re-commissioned to reconfigure the High Commission’s layout and refurbish the interior to meet the clients changing needs. This is to maximise space and efficiency in a cost effective design.
DownloadBritish High Commission Accra – Data SheetSee AlsoBritish Deputy High Commission Chennai

Started: 2008
Completed: 2009
Client: Ministry of Sport, Iraq

The Stadium’s form is a simple drum finished in deep coloured stone, with horizontal slots rhythmically forming a constant pattern around the ‘drum’ and across the roof. A number of the slots will be filled with translucent fabric to shelter the participants and spectators from the sun. Other slots will be left open to encourage natural wind currents and convection to draw air through the structure to cool the central arena space.

The planning meets or exceeds FIFA’s criteria for international soccer events and is easily convertible to meet the Olympic requirements of other IAAF sports. Due to the location we have also used our knowledge to facilitate a safe environment for the whole park and reduce the carbon produced by the building.

The raised drum will form the centre of the larger site for Basra Sports City, with its lines defining the surrounding landscape. These orientation lines, formed from palm trees, and additional structures, focus on the Stadium, other individual sports facilities and facilities such as the Media Centre.
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Started: 1999
Completed: 2002
Client: Premiership Football

The patented Stadio system is a unique seating system for Stadiums developed by Jordan+Bateman Architects. Its advantages include low cost and fast construction to be built in the end of season break in playing. This gives teams the opportunity to expand within a defined period and begin the payback quickly.

The grandstands were fully covered all seater and modular enabling the stands to grow as the fortunes of the individual club grow. The stands could provide for as little as 150 seats up to a stadium of 100,000 including all facilities.

One of the benefits is that if the Stadio System is used to provide grandstand facilities, at the end of the event it can be dismantled and re-assembled as a series of small Stadia. These initial costs can be recouped and sustainability goals achieved.
See AlsoBasra Sports Stadium

Started: 2006
Completed: 2009
Client: Stackers Ltd.

This scheme was for a state of the art, residential care facility. The layout of the buildings on site sought to create an informal group that mimics other small farm settlements in this area. Many of the surrounding settlements have irregular formations of buildings, often timber framed and clad with plain tile roofs and vertical tile hanging.

This traditional form influenced our scheme where the roofs and walls having fluid edges, which run into each other as one continuous, tiled skin. This fluid edge is used to create a building form that echoes an old barn but uses the latest off site construction techniques. Using a limited pallet of materials and similar built forms creates a development that is drawn as a family unit, where each building is different but they are unmistakably from the same parent.

The proposal provided an exemplary standard of accommodation allied to a professional and caring management philosophy in a combined development offering nursing care and care for those suffering from dementia.
See AlsoOrchard PlaceGulhak Flats

Started: 2009
Completed: 2009
Client: Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

Designing sustainable homes for the 21st century requires a new approach to both the planning, design and construction.

Although the Garden city movement prided itself on providing more space in which people could live, we now find that with increasing demand for residential space this is no longer feasible. Land prices have risen dramatically due to shortage of supply and increased demand so that it is important now to build to higher densities. The increase in demand for new homes is also putting pressure on the green belt and will have reduced the opportunities for the continuation of the garden city concept. It is therefore essential to come forward with a new concept to planning communities that provide much needed accommodation whilst providing the individual with the garden city experience.

This submission presents a completely new strategy to site planning, sustainability, design and procurement. It is a development from a series of studies carried out by us into Care Homes that we are developing throughout the UK at the current time. It is therefore not theory but a practical workable solution.
See AlsoKazakh VillageBrentwood

Started: 2006
Completed: 2007
Client: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Jordan+Bateman Architects was commissioned to design an earthquake resistant residential block in Tehran. The design was inspired by the local use of highly patterned tiles and the environmental design to allow natural airflow to cool the building. By using sliding screens, the new building created changing shadows on the lines of the façade. The design involved a detailed understanding of the various local methods used in the construction.

A mixture of three and four bedroom flats was provided over three storeys, that met both British and Iranian building standards and Indian Earthquake codes.
DownloadGulhak Flats, Tehran – Project Data SheetSee AlsoStockbridgeLetchworth

Started: 2012
Completed: 2012
Client: Peabody

Competition entry for a residential affordable development in East London. The site is currently occupied by a redundant hospital complex. Only two buildings from the hospital are to be retained and refurbished into flats. Along the perimeter of the site there are three storey townhouses and flats; higher buildings are proposed inside.

We have kept the strong linear frontage to the north, east and south aspects of the site, which reflects and responds to the existing terraced houses. The western frontage and original main entrance of the site has open views in and out. The new dwellings are opened towards internal spaces with provision for allotments. This will ensure a lively, usable, secure green environment which reflects the essence of ‘community’ as well as being highly inclusive and sustainable. The built form and massing offer a good integration with the adjacent areas and provide a mixture of topologies providing a highly dense development.

Started: 2011
Completed: 2012
Client: Fujian Electric Power Company

Fujian Electric Power Company commissioned a study to provide exhibition space, gym and to accommodate 105 workers on a site within a wind turbine powerplant area and adjacent to a gas power plant. This difficult location deeply influenced the project’s concept. All the different pollutions and noise sources, wind direction and sun path were considered. This let to a very unique approach.

The residential units are therefore as distant as possible from the wind turbines and are further screened by a concrete continuous wall containing vertical and horizontal circulation. The curved roof is treated as an extensive green roof to provide a consistent mass in order to reduce like the concrete wall the transmission of sound. A vertical sun shading system modulates the solar gain on the Eastern facade as well as contribute to reduce the noise and provide screen from the stroboscopic effect from the rotors.

The residential building is linked with the other two buildings, the gym and the exhibition hall, with an organic landscape which includes green areas, shared surfaces for pedestrian and vehicular movement and pools. The landscape extends itself to include the wind turbines which becomes part of the design.

Started: 2012
Completed: 2012 – Feasibility Study
Client: Hadley Property Group

This Design and Access Statement has been prepared by Jordan+Bateman Architects in support of a planning application on behalf of Hadley Property Group for the development of the site located just outside of Stroud Town Centre and the railway station, which is a listed building.

Currently the site is vacant with a grade II listed building which sits directly against the canal frontage. There are buildings of architectural significance around the site, which offer a good basis for which materials and finishes should respect.

The new development should provide high quality residential accommodation which is affordable and designed for both family living and for that of the commuter. There will be provision for some nonresidential spaces along Cheapside in order to create an active frontage and to provide a mixture of uses.

The proposed residential development will make a positive contribution to the townscape by adding a development with high design quality and ensuring a pleasant access for the public to the canal front. The new development will improve the current status and appearance of the site, which is a gateway to, Stroud from both the South and the train station.

The proposal will deliver 23 townhouses, new amenity space providing the missing link to the Regent’s Canal Footpath, garages and carpark spaces integrated in the landscape design.

For more information please click on the link to downolad the D&A Statement.
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Cheapside Wharf – D&A Statement – June 2012

Started: 2012
Completed: 2014
Client: Tutis Development

The site is a corner plot sitting on a pedestrianized street in central Cambridge. The street offers a variety of small and medium-small retail units at ground floor with residential accommodation above. The quality of build form, retail and consistency of the urban volumes on the street changes when going from the end close to the centre town outward. This is particularly true for this corner plot that features an old oven / bakery shop that has been closed for years, a garage on the back and present heterogeneous roofscape and fragmented overall volumes that easily identify the several build phases that brought to the current status.

By working closely with the Client, Jordan+Bateman Architects initially developed some schematic sketches to verify how the floorplan could maximise the area of accommodation and the retail at ground floor at the same time. The chosen solution optimizes the access for the retail shop while providing all the facilities for the residential units above such as the entrance lobby, separate bin storage, meters and intake room and bicycle storage for both the retail units’ staff and the residents. The use of the residential units are for a sui generis House of Multiple occupation, featuring for each of the 14 bedsit an en-suite bathroom plus generous allowance of communal kitchen and living area. Overall the Gross External Area of the development will be about 825sqm.

We studied solutions to ensure that rights of light, overlooking and overshadowing to adjacent and neighbouring properties were avoided or minimized so to minimize the risk of no claims against the proposed development could be made. Blank elevations were also articulated so to create an interesting pattern. Natural light was introduced in internal corridors so that no overlooking issues occurred by introducing rooflight on the top floor and glass block windows.

The palette of material was kept at the basic so that it would result in a crisp and simple design and be well integrated in the surrounding contest. The contemporaneity will be set in the crisp lines, generous glazing and in some details like rainwater downpipe hopper and encasement in the brick wall, a box corner glass element and high dormer windows.

The building is currently on site and completion is expected by Autumn 2014.