Oaklands Residential Scheme, AJ Buildings Library

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Oaklands College is a Grade II listed post-war former educational campus in the centre of St. Albans. After the college moved to new premises the site was bought by Fairview New Homes for redevelopment into housing. New apartment blocks were planned in a campus arrangement across the site that contained over two hundred mature trees, as if a parkland. A design language was derived from a central group of retained and listed buildings. Adopting the rectilinear building shape and by adding layers in an additive approach, we arrived with a building design that responded to its setting within the listed campus. The buildings use a restrained palette of natural materials – grey terracotta, zinc and cedar – to complement and echo the elegant and glassy listed building group.

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Oaklandsby John Pardey ArchitectsSt. Albans, Hertfordshire (2011)

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Residential retrofit of the former Oaklands College in St Albans with the addition of 15 new apartment blocks within the listed campus

DataBegun Apr 2008

Completed Jul 2011

Floor area 17,297m2

Sector Residential

Total cost £22.9M

Procurement Design & Build

Address St. Peters Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1

3RX, United Kingdom

Professional teamArchitect John Pardey Architects

Client Nicholas King Homes

Structural engineer  Barton Engineers

M&E consultant Hoare Lea

Approved building inspector  Assent Building Control

Main contractor NK Homes

Conservation consultant Mervyn Miller

Facade consultant Cladtech

Landscape consultant Mark Cooper Associates

Arboricultural consultant CBA Trees

Ecological consultant Nature Matters

Sustainability consultant Faber Maunsell

Accessibility consultant Penton, Smart + Grimwade

CDM coordinator Bridge Security

Quantity surveyor NK Homes

Project manager NK Homes

Photographs

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Photo credits: Andy Matthews

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Drawings

Location plan

Site plan

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Plans

Site section

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Working Details

Facade and floor detail

Facade and floor detail

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