Slab Design Union were engaged to produce a detailed facade package and provide technical input for this 29 unit apartment scheme with ground floor commercial spaces.
The project is located at 48-52 Princip Street within the Gunsmiths/ St George & St Chad Quarter of the City Core, between the Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area to the West and Aston University to the East.
Working with the project team we developed a detailed set of technical information for the masonry and precast facades that responded to the technical and heritage challenges presented by the site. The new buildings are arranged to provide a new frontage to Princip Street extending the full depth of the site and set out to provide a series of private court spaces reminiscent of the historic pattern from the 19th Century.
The external spaces include hard and soft landscaping amenity space. The design of the development uses decorative facing brickwork and flat roofed building forms which offer variety and complexity rather than repetition. Window forms are varied and respond to orientation and the internal uses. The development provides 11 (38%) one bed and 18 (62%) two bed apartments.
Pedestrian access is from Princip Street into a shared lobby with the commercial space on the ground floor also being accessed and serviced from Princip Street. The site has an area of 0.115 hectares and a density of 252 dwellings per hectare based on the design.
Client | Design Architect – Bryant Priest Newman Architects
Type – Residential | Commercial | Heritage
Location – Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK
Status – Tender
CGI’s | Visuals – Akom Creative Ltd
Images | Drawings – Bryant Priest Newman Architects | Slab Design Union
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