Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street
| Client Architect Image Credits |
University of Cambridge Jamie Fobert Architects Hufton+Crow |
Awards | AJ Retrofit Awards Finalist Civic Trust Award RIBA East Award RIBA National Award |
Kettle’s Yard is a new building and a series of additions to the original 1970’s extension. Carefully conceived to complement and enhance the qualities of the existing house, the development includes new exhibition galleries, education spaces, a café and new welcome areas, greatly enhancing Kettle’s Yard’s offering as a centre for contemporary and modern art outside London. The new, fully accessible education wing expands the education facilities, incorporating a generous, double-height Clore Learning Studio at basement level.
We provided initial mechanical and electrical design proposals up to RIBA Stage D. We created the initial ventilation strategy, a renewable energy study and undertook thermal model simulations to predict internal conditions of the new extension. Our proposals included a centralised heat recovery air handling unit mounted onto the roof of the existing gallery to ventilate the building with localised comfort cooling in the lecture room and café using a variable refrigerant volume system. Ventilation in the loan collection room would be provided by a dedicated extract system to remove any dust and pollutants. All ductwork distribution and grilles locations were to be concealed where possible and minimise the visual implication in each space.
