Stanton Williams | Bourne Hill Offices

in Architecture by editor — 4:11 pm | January 7, 20120 comments

Stanton Williams were commissioned to design new offices for Wiltshire Council on a sensitive historic site at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.

The new Council building is a marriage of a new building and the restored Grade II* listed Bourne Hill House. The new building has 2600m2 of flexible, open plan offices that enjoy generous views of the surrounding gardens. Externally, it is given presence and scale by a full-height colonnade set in front of its glazed elevations and there is thus a strong relationship between the architecture and the external landscape. The design incorporates an integral low-energy strategy in order to achieve an ‘excellent’ BREEAM rating.

Bourne Hill House has been fully restored. It had been subjected to a series of detrimental external additions and these accretions have been swept away, reinforcing the architectural integrity of the house.

On a sensitive site and within a historic city, the final design was arrived at following an extensive process of consultation with the local community and with expert bodies including English Heritage.

Ian Latham in Architecture Today magazine remarked that: “Wiltshire’s council offices set a high benchmark for civic building in the twenty-first century.” The project completed in 2010 at a cost of £15.8 million.

Location: Bourne Hill, Salisbury, UK

Architect: Stanton Williams
Design team: Andre Baugh, Besnik Bijo, Doriano Chiarparin
Bertil Donker, Jason Geen, Stephen Hadley, Kalpesh Intwala
Henrik Lonberg, Aidan McMahon, Peter Murray, Tom Shell
Alan Stanton, Fernando Tapia, Paul Williams
Project manager: Pete Smith, Wiltshire Council
Structure engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
M&E engineer: Max Fordham
Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald, Davis Langdon
Landscape architect: J&L Gibbons
Conservation architect: Rodney Melville & Partners
Artists: Toni Davey, Karen Hansen, Anna Sandberg
Gordon Young
Other key consultants

Arboricultural consultant: CBA Trees
Planning supervisor/CDM: Confluence PCM Safety Management
Contractors
Main contractor: Morgan Sindall
Enabling works: H Smith Engineers
(demolition) contractor
Selected subcontractors
M&E engineer: EIC
Architectural metalwork and structural glazing: Alloy Fabweld
Concrete frame: Woodmace
Curtain walling: Glamalco
Stonework: Szerelmey
Masonry work: CWO
Landscape: Horseshoe Landscaping
Selected suppliers
Flooring: Dalsouple (rubber)
Desso (carpet)
Paint: Dulux
Lighting: ALC
Cubicle Systems: Total Laminate Systems
Precast staircases: Edenhall Concrete
Waterproofing: LSE
Doors: David Smith
Smoke shutters: HAG
Insulation: Kingspan Insulation
Raised Access floorings: Mayflower Interiors
Ironmongery: Stellar Ironmongery
Blinds: Labetts