The Enterprise Innovation Centre (EIC) is Nottingham Trent University’s new home for enterprise activity within the heart of the City of Nottingham. The EIC forms a major building block of the University’s Enterprise Action Plan.
The new building extends from the north end of the Dryden Centre, built in 1976. The EIC provides a focus for all the University’s enterprise activities and offers a dynamic learning environment where student and graduate entrepreneurs can interact and collaborate with academics, researchers, small growing businesses and larger companies. The development has been designed to accommodate University start-ups and spin-outs, as well as in-movers from elsewhere attracted by the high-quality space and business support offer.
Brackenhurst is an £8.4m new build Reception and Environment Centre for Nottingham Trent University that sits within the listed historic context of Brackenhurst Main Hall . The scheme comprises reception area, teaching and lecture spaces, laboratories and a new café space and was designed in conjunction with a Wolfgang Buttress, who has designed a sculptural installation for the campus. The building is designed with low-carbon materials including CLT panels and has achieved BREEAM Excellent at design stage. Natural light plays a large role in the design, through the large roof lights and shuttered windows.
The client wanted us to design a satellite office for their company on a historically industrial site. The brief required a shopfront presence, chapel of rest and dignified private entrance for hearses. The building is split into two blocks - an entrance block wraps around the corner of the street in mesh bond brickwork with glazed entrance and a private rear block is entered along a glazed walkway. The public and private areas of the building connect at the chapel of rest in the centre, defined with a Private reflection courtyard. The internal courtyard is enclosed by timber cladding, whilst a solid brick exterior provides privacy from the adjacent activity, with glimpses through panels of mesh bond brickwork.
The client, a manufacturer of high quality playgrounds, wanted a design that reflected the progressive ethos of their company, on a tight budget - a 'chic shed'.
'We have enjoyed working with Evans Vettori and have been particularly impressed by the way in which they have been prepared to draw our management team and the workforce into the process of developing the brief for our new factory. The result has been a design that really does reflect the ethos of the company and has helped us to sell the whole concept of relocation to our management team and the workforce.'
Robin Sutcliffe. Managing Director Sutcliffe Play Ltd
An expanding funeral directors business needed a new hearse garage, cold store, additional workshop space and two more offices. The site overlooks a brook and has views to the nearby church. The new building replaces a decrepit shack, and occupies the same tight footprint. It is in the middle of the Matlock Green Conservation Area so needed to be designed carefully to blend with the traditional stone and slate vernacular. This small new addition to a historic locality makes a positive contemporary contribution and further enhances a charming mixed-use environment.
The client required a two-storey building for an expanding funeral directors organisation, with a garage to store part of their vehicle fleet. The programme has been arranged to cater for bereaved families with a reception, chapel, office, preparation and storage room at ground floor and two small offices and kitchenette at first floor. The site sits just outside the Southern edge of the ‘Higher Buxton’ character area in close proximity are also a number of church buildings including Buxton Community Church, Buxton Methodist Church and St Mary’s Church.
A new entrance for the headquarters of a popular toy wholesale organisation will provide a public front to this existing warehouse and new office space. The design is conceived as a toy display box, and looks to provide an accessible reception and display area, as well as modifications to the existing warehouse to provide well-lit office space. The works also enclose a service yard with a simple louvred partition wall, which serves to provide some degree of physical separation from the proposed entrance building.
Located alongside Carsington Wate, the proposed scheme utilises the natural slope of the site and follows the lines of the existing hedgerows. Two walls frame a ‘canyon’ that encloses the central entrance and heart of the building. The building is to house CW Sellors jewellery manufacturing workshop and head offices, along with public retail areas and cafe as well as flexible exhibition space and educational facilities.
