大学将表演艺术、新闻和语言与新成立的曼彻斯特诗歌图书馆、咖啡馆、公共门厅、展览空间和一个180个座位的演播室剧院动态地结合在一起。坐落在曼彻斯特的牛津路走廊上，格罗夫纳东区为大学提供了教学和学习的空间，以及一个与城市相连的高度可见的新文化中心。 The 12,100 sqm new building for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University brings together a dynamic mix of the performing arts, journalism, and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a cafe, and public foyers, exhibition space, and a 180-seat studio theatre. Situated on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor, Grosvenor East provides the university with spaces for teaching and learning, and a highly visible new cultural hub connected to the city.
The 12,100 sqm new building for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University brings together a dynamic mix of the performing arts, journalism, and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a cafe, and public foyers, exhibition space, and a 180-seat studio theatre. Situated on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor, Grosvenor East provides the university with spaces for teaching and learning, and a highly visible new cultural hub connected to the city.
占地2,600平方米的狭小角落里，一个复杂的分段设计将建筑的复杂程序交错在中央中庭的两侧，作为内部的 "街道"，将校园的南北两边连接起来。Grosvenor East的底层完全向公众开放，包括剧院、诗歌图书馆和咖啡馆。中层为媒体学生提供了最先进的电视和广播工作室，戏剧学生拥有灵活的排练室，可以沐浴在日光下或完全遮蔽。大楼的上层为学术办公室、教室和语言实验室保留。
Occupying a tight 2,600 sqm corner site, a sophisticated sectional design interlocks the building’s complex program on either side of a central atrium that acts as an internal ‘street’, linking the north and south sides of the campus. The ground floor of Grosvenor East is entirely open to the public and includes the theatre, poetry library, and café. Mid-levels provide media students with state-of-the-art television and radio studios, and drama students have flexible rehearsal studios that can be bathed in daylight or completely blacked out. The building’s upper levels are reserved for academic offices, classrooms, and language laboratories.
我们进行了深入的接触和介绍，以确定这些不同的建筑用户群体的许多往往是不同的要求，并了解他们对空间、声学或安全隔离的需求。正是这种丰富的建筑用户组合和他们各自的需求，确定了建筑的形式。
An in-depth engagement and briefing process was undertaken to identify the many and often diverging requirements of this diverse group of building users and understand the needs for spatial, acoustic, or secure separation. It is this rich mix of building users and their respective needs that have defined the architectural approach.
在设计开发中同样重要的是保留一个列出的立面，这是 1830 年代在 Medlock 市政厅的 Chorlton 曾经在这个网站上留下的所有东西。门廊的正式强度被用作新建筑的主要入口，门洞加长以实现无障碍通道。这是曼彻斯特城市大学的一个重要地点，无论是就其高知名度而言，还是作为 All Saint's Park 周围校园的基石的位置。
Also essential in the design development was the retention of a listed facade, all that remains of the 1830s Chorlton on Medlock Town Hall once on this site. The formal strength of the portico is exploited as the new building’s primary entrance with door openings lengthened for step-free access. This is a key site for Manchester Metropolitan University, both in terms of its high visibility and its location as a cornerstone to the campus around All Saint’s Park.
预制玻璃钢混凝土板的厚重砌体，以及窗户和上层外墙的轻质铜色金属框架，使建筑具有长期的稳固性和持久性，并带有温暖的装饰性。建筑的体量被分解成一系列独立的块状物，在立面和屋顶规划中可以看到，这些规模逐渐增大，最终在牛津路的拐角处达到建筑的最高点，背对着城市。
A heavy masonry body of prefabricated glass-reinforced concrete panels, with a lightweight copper-colored metal framework to the windows and upper facade levels, gives the building long-term solidity and permanence with a warm, decorative flourish. The building’s massing is broken into a series of individual blocks, visible in the elevations and roof plan, that gradually increase in scale, culminating in the building’s highest point on the corner of Oxford Road, facing back towards the city.
该方案的能源使用目标设定得很高，强调了一个非常高性能的围护结构，其等级远远超过了建筑法规。Grosvenor East是本事务所在曼彻斯特完成的几个项目中的第一个。我们现在在曼彻斯特有一个小型但永久性的机构，我们将在那里发展这个项目，我们最近被任命为iD曼彻斯特的总体规划，为开发商Bruntwood和曼彻斯特大学开发新的研究和创新园区。
Energy use targets are set high for the scheme with an emphasis on a very high-performing envelope achieving ratings well in excess of building regulations. Grosvenor East is the first of several projects to be completed in Manchester by the practice. We now have a small but permanent presence in the city from where we will grow this portfolio, and we have recently been appointed to develop a master plan for iD Manchester, new research and innovation campus for developer Bruntwood and the University of Manchester.
