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.

Started: 2013
Completed: 2013 – Competition Entry
Client: Peabody

Design

We approach each brief with a view to challenge and discuss the requirements and aspects to achieve a better design strategy. For this scheme we have addressed the courtyard as a whole, going beyond the original site boundaries. Our solution responds to the surrounding figure ground, delivering better urban spaces by breaking up the central square into a series of more intimate amenity areas and playgrounds, allowing for better dwellings’ layouts and preserving the privacy and right to light of the existing and new residents. The elevated wings across the courtyards respond to the massing and scale of the surrounding buildings, enclose the space and leave the landscape to float underneath. The inclusive design incorporates level access, on-site reserved carpark, ground floor dwellings and a lift to all levels plus well-dimensioned dwellings’ layouts.

Innovation

The concept is to design a scheme that brings both urban and energetic regeneration to the whole neighbouring area. Innovative solutions have emerged throughout this schemes development, from the buildings footprint to its integrated sustainable energy systems. All the technological elements concur to form the architectural language, such as solar panels as a floating termination of the roofline.

Sustainability

Orientation is key for the sustainability strategy. By providing generous windows on the south-facing elevation solar gain is maximised in living areas in winter months when sun is lower, reducing the need for artificial lighting and heating, whilst smaller openings on the north elevation minimise heat loss. Most dwellings are dual aspects to allow for efficient cross ventilation during summertime. The southern aspect is once again utilised by solar panels mounted along the building’s roof profile and is proposed on part of the existing buildings’ roof area. Preliminary estimates anticipate that just the new building’s panels will produce hot water in excess of the demand for the new residents; the excess will be diverted for the use of existing adjacent dwellings. Under the relocated sport court and under the new amenity areas we propose to use geothermal wells in connection with a heat pump system for the heating and cooling of the new dwellings. Naturally occurring materials such as timber and stone, and other locally resourced like brick, reduce the scheme’s embodied energy.

Started: 2013
Completed: 2013 – Competition Entry
Client: Peabody

We believe in the creation of sustainable spaces. For this reason the proposal is a scheme which utilises density to provide open space. Each residence is accompanied by a green terrace, giving each a space that is both private and public to plant, play and enjoy the space.

The proposed design features an L-shaped building sitting against the north and west extents of the site. This allows for the creation of a south-facing public space between the new development and the existing block of Peabody owned flats.

A series of setbacks open up the building to the south, preventing it from imposing upon the existing urban fabric, and providing a number of flats with outside terraces. Along Brookside Road to the north, the existing building line is maintained.

The choice to build right up to the boundary of the pub is permissible as no windows look out onto the beer garden. This back wall provides the space for a service core of staircase, lift and risers, as well as bathrooms and kitchens of individual flats, freeing up the other side of the development for living spaces.

The terraces are screened by a punched metal fretwork, allowing light through, but still granting privacy.

At ground level, there is provision for cycle storage, extra storage space for the residents, bin storage, a laundry room and a plant room; providing more efficient heating than if every flat was heated individually and also managing the distribution of grey water for the toilets.

Solar thermal panels on the rooftop help to provide hot water and heating for the new flats.
The Eastern wing of the L-shaped plan would benefit from cross ventilation while the rest of the proposal could benefit from stack-effect ventilation running through the service core.

The mature trees on the south edge of the site are retained. Structured planting within the public courtyard screens a play area from the road and softens the buildings elevations at ground level.

The proposed development is intended to house 21 people across 10 flats.