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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2004
Ibstock bricks help win Sustainability
Award
The award-winning Denville Hall Phase 2 extension has been developed as part of The Actors' Charitable Trust's (TACT) programme to upgrade the accommodation at Denville Hall, Middlesex.
The project, designed by Acanthus Lawrence and Wrightson Architects, won the 2003 Sustainability Award at the BDA Brick Awards in November 2003, using Ibstock's Parkhouse Weston Red Multi Stock bricks Denville Hall has been run for 70 years by TACT as a retirement home for the acting profession and, in 1998, the Trustees launched a development programme to upgrade the facilities
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Following a design competition, the architects designed an extension to the original Victorian home, to provide a thoroughly modern facility yet with features and materials, which were totally sympathetic to the original.
Project architect Mike Porretta explains: "It was important that the brick was very similar to the original Victorian local brick, although we were not attempting an exact match.
We found that Ibstock's Parkhouse Weston Red Multi was ideal, and the fact that it was a stock brick ensured consistency, as the project is large".
Other period details included reproducing the original lime mortar by using a premixed mortar with a larger aggregate particle content, and using natural slate and copper on the roof, as well as cedar boarding.
Victorian design themes were echoed by the end gables and the brick and copper clad tall ventilation shafts, dimensioned to simulate chimneys, but housing fully sustainable passive ventilation.
Use of sustainable materials and services impressed the BDA judges and won the award.
The Denville Hall Phase 2 extension is designed to provide 30 en suite bedrooms, 15 of which are contained in a special curved unit to accommodate patients with dementia problems.
(The refurbished Victorian home will provide a further 10 en suite bedrooms).
The extension comprises two wings, of two and three storeys, which enclose a courtyard with the third side completed by the single storey curved building.
The main wings hold resident bedrooms and staff accommodation with communal rooms on the ground floor of the three storey wing.
Project architect: Acanthus Lawrence and Wrightson.
Main and brickwork contractor: Lacey Simmons.
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