Page 1 of 8 Home Exhibitions Bookcase Architect's Studio Camera Image Library Travel KK Letters Design Links Features Public Sector Design Award Winning Interior Design Public Sector Architects www.360ds.co.uk Alsop Architects Chips New Islington Manchester, UK Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop s masterplan for New Islington, Manchester s Millennium Community. nb:architects+ RIBA chartered practice in sussex contact us for a free consultation www.nbarchitecture.com Local Architects Affordable Riba Home Design Experts Pay As You Go- Extension Renovation www.architect-yourhome. Architects In Your Area Get contact details for Architects and speak to them directly www.localsurveyorsdire The building is clad in a composite wall, faced with a cladding covered in newspaper print with text that echoes the industrial heritage of the local area.
Page 2 of 8 Alvar Aalto Raimund Abraham Allied Works Alsop Architects Amoretti & Calvi Architetti Tadao Ando Paul Andreu Jun Aoki Asymptote Arquitectonica Shigeru Ban Luis Barragán Benson & Forsyth Berger + Parkkinen BIG Ricardo Bofill Atelier Bow-Wow Cécile Brisac & Edgar Gonzalez will bruder + partners Santiago Calatrava Alberto Campo Baeza Scope Cleaver Coop Himmelb(l)au Le Corbusier Cruz & Ortiz Architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro Edge (HK) Ltd, Erick van Egeraat Eisenman Architects Arthur Erickson Ralph Erskine Sverre Fehn Frederick Fisher and Partners Mark Fisher Foreign Office Architects Foster Partners Massimiliano Fuksas Gehry Partners, LLP Gluckman Mayner GRAFT Michael Graves Grimshaw Architects Gwathmey Siegel & Ass. Zaha Hadid T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates Zvi Hecker Herzog & de Meuron Hodgetts + Fung Steven Holl Hans Hollein Arata Isozaki & Associates Toyo Ito Jacob + MacFarlane Arne Jacobsen Philip Johnson KHR AS Josef Paul Kleihues Leon Krier Kengo Kuma Kisho Kurokawa LAB architecture studio LAM Henning Larsen John Lautner Legorreta + Legorreta Daniel Libeskind Maya Lin Søren Robert Lund Lunde & Løvseth Lundgaard & Tranberg MAD Machado and Silvetti Michael Maltzan Dorte Mandrup Architects Mecanoo Architects Vlado Milunic Richard Meier EMBT Moore, Ruble & Yudell OMA Rem Koolhaas Jose Rafael Moneo Morphosis Eric Owen Moss Glenn Murcutt
Page 3 of 8 Inspired by three fat chips piled on top of one another the building is comprised of three equal-height, long, thin build masses approximately 100 meters long by 14 meters wide, stacked and staggered upon one another. The scheme was conceived to give variation and unique apartments within a high-density block. An important part of the design strategy was that all residents would be near water, able to see water and to be able to use the new canal arms as a recreational facility. The mix of apartments, studios, workshops and restaurants stitched into the overall building form creates a diversity of use. The apartment types, arranged on eight floors, range from studio spaces to three bedroom apartments, with a variety of external balconies. The building was raised off the ground so that all units and users are elevated above the ground plain.
Page 4 of 8 The apartments, planned internally around a central pod unit, housing the bathroom and kitchen areas, can be open plan or subdivided by the use of large folding screens. All apartments are accessed via a glazed lobby to the centre of the building.
Page 5 of 8 The project defines a quality of living by combining outstanding design with technological innovation while embracing key concepts of sustainability, integration into the urban landscape, and the provision of inspirational apartment units. The completion of Chips marks another significant milestone for New Islington, which will become even more of a community once the residents of Chips move into their apartments. Sketch courtesy Alsop Architects
Page 6 of 8 Site Plan South Elevation North Elevation Typical Middle Chip Floor Plan
Page 7 of 8 Longitudinal Section Cross Section Total gross area: 16,200 square meters Completed: 2009 Client: Urban Splash Ltd Architect: Alsop Architects Project Team: Will Alsop Duncan Macaulay Edward Norman Caroline Koo, Bonny Yu Main contractor: Urban Splash Build Ltd Structural engineer: Martin Stockley Associates M&E consultant: Quartzelec Quantity surveyor: Simon Fenton Partnership Landscape Designer: Grant Associates Lighting designer: Pinniger & Partners Acoustic consultants: Buro Happold Approved inspector: HCD Photographed by Christian Richters Launched in 2002, Alsop s Strategic Framework for New Islington, lays out an exceptional place, modeled around new canal arms and an inspiring landscape.
Page 8 of 8 Photo:Christian Richters Alsop developed the scheme in close collaboration with the local community. Using the Alsop strategy of engagement, the masterplan and Chips building design were developed from an extensive community consultation exercise over a six-month period. Local residents were taken on site visits to high-density residential developments that support the sustainable infrastructure that the community wanted. In addition, Alsop led workshops where the residents were directly asked what type of accommodation they wanted and the facilities that they felt the community would require. The final design is a direct result of the consultation process. Chips meets the Sustainability guidelines as set out by the UK Homes and Communities agency as apart of the Millennium Community Program. Alsop Architects arcspace features November 9, 2009 Home Exhibitions Bookcase Architect's Studio Camera Image Library Travel kk Letters Design Links about arcspace copyright 1999-2009 arcspace all rights reserved. comments or questions? - Editor-In-Chief Kirsten Kiser