Clyde Williams Building, Loughborough University
- Status
- Completed 2009
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £12.25m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Architect and Lead Consultant
- Scale
- 1,950m²
The Clyde Williams Building is a world-class teaching facility to support the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science. It comprises teaching laboratories and classrooms, a first floor sprint corridor with associated analysis suites and further laboratories.
- Status
- Completed 2009
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £12.25m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Architect and Lead Consultant
- Scale
- 1,950m²
The challenge of this project was to create a flexible building that can be reconfigured for a wide variety of uses at a future date without disrupting the entire building, to accommodate the variety of spatial and functional requirement of the users now and in the future, in a building that satisfies all of the universities objectives and enhances the campus as a whole.
Exterior view
Exterior view
“DMA rise above the competitors when it comes to interpreting the brief. They take what is put on paper, critically analyse it and interpret it, which is a useful and constructive way of working. DMA question the intentions at the outset and this is good practice. They won’t push blindly ahead disregarding the alternatives that might actually give the client a better building.”
The concept was for 10-10.5m wide strips of accommodation to be access from circulation routes within atria on one or both sides depending on whether the strip was located on the perimeter or not. Where layouts required circulation zones could be moved inboard from the perimeter to create double loaded corridors. Each level of each strip of accommodation can be treated differently in response to the users’ specific requirements. The spaces have been designed to be air tight to ensure that there is efficiency in the heating and cooling of the building.
The buildings position on the site creates a new public space broadly triangular in shape between itself and the recently constructed Sir John Beckwith Building, and Martin Hall. The proposed setback and alignment of the new façade opens up the existing space and responds to desire lines of pedestrians walking between the University and College on the opposite side of Epinal Way.
Sprint corridors
Laboratory
