Birkbeck Centre for Film and Visual Media
LOCATION : LONDON
CLIENT : BIRKBECK COLLEGE
COMPLETED: FEBRUARY 2007
The Centre is a prestigious research facility within the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media. Located within a Grade II listed terrace once occupied by Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, the project is a refurbishment of the basement, ground floor and the utilitarian 1970’s extension. It includes a unique ‘state of the art’ 80 seat cinema auditorium, media study suite, seminar/tutorial rooms and offices for academics. The Centre is our most intense formal and visual expression built to date. The vibrant interconnected spaces have a rich conceptual design, the logic of which has been carried through to the detail.
June 15th, 2011at 3:42 pm(#)
dear surface architects,
this work is amazing! i’m producing my degree thesis on Cross Laminated Timber and your projects speak about my argomentation: the technology of CLT is not only good for chalets and bungalows, it can be a great tool for innovative architecture!
i have only copule of question: how about the sizing of the projects? you have must developed a transportation plan to optimize the transportation from the factory to the building site or it was provided from the x-lam factory?
Thank you
best regards from Italy
June 15th, 2011at 3:55 pm(#)
Hello Fixx,
The X-Lam was produced by KLH Uk as part of a Contractor Design Portion; so we were responsible only for supplying required finished surface tolerances and co-ordinates. The panels were produced in Austria and shipped to London in suitably sized pieces and this was entirely controlled by KLH.
KLH and the fitout Contractors, Vivid Interiors, together arranged the lifting of each panel into position in the extension; they had to be craned completely over the top of the Listed Terrace building so this was quite a complex operation!
Hope that helps
Sam
August 21st, 2011at 11:41 pm(#)
Surface architects,
this is why I love architecture.
Great work.