CHIPS by ALSOP
13/06/2012.
[Manchester] U.K.
metalocus, CARMEN RUIZ, ALICIA FARO
metalocus, CARMEN RUIZ, ALICIA FARO
The team of British architects ALSOP, has increased the volume of their projects, in this case, also in height. A block of flats in the new development area of the city of Manchester, nucleus of the industrial revolution and now in his reconversion of industrial zones to residential areas, as the area north of the city.
View from canal. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
Detail. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
View from canal. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
View from canal. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
View from canal. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
View of the facade . CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
View from the street. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
Interior view. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
Interior view. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
Interior view. CHIPS by ALSOP. Photography © Christian Richters.
Ground floor plan. CHIPS by ALSOP.
Typical bottom chip floor plan. CHIPS by ALSOP.
Typical top chip floor plan.. CHIPS by ALSOP.
North elevation. CHIPS by ALSOP.
South elevation. CHIPS by ALSOP.
Long section. CHIPS by ALSOP.
Short section. CHIPS by ALSOP.
East elevation. CHIPS by ALSOP.
West elevation. CHIPS by ALSOP.
Quirky, bold and robust; ‘Chips’ forms the first major development for the Alsop-designed masterplan for New Islington in Manchester. New Islington is an extraordinary stretch of land situated between the Ashton and Rochdale canals in the industrial suburb of Ancoats. Launched in 2002, Alsop’s Strategic Framework for New Islington, lays out an exceptional place, modeled around new canal arms and an inspiring landscape.
Commissioned by Urban Splash, the first new apartments for sale in New Islington have been designed by Will Alsop. 142 one, two and three bedroom apartments distributed throughout a layered and faceted building known as ‘Chips’.
The ‘Chips’ building comprises three equal-height, long, thin new build masses (Chips) approximately 100m long by 14m wide stacked and staggered upon one another creating an elevated ground floor and eight levels of apartments.
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 Ancoats area. The design provides a mix of living and studio units and a 420 sq m destination restaurant within a single project. 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 and sensational apartment units.
The building’s apartment types range from studio spaces to three bed apartments. There is also a variety of differing external balconies. The apartments are planned internally around a central ‘pod’ unit, housing the bathroom and kitchen areas. The apartments can be open plan or sub-divided by the use of large folding screens.
Professional Credits,
Architects: ALSOP Architects.
Lead Architect: Alsop Architects.
Client / Developer: Nick Johnson, Urban Splash, United Kingdom.
Collaborators team: Landscape Architect: Keith French, Grant Associates. Structural Engineer: Julian Broster, Martin Stockley Associates.
Dates: Commission, 2002 and Completion, 2009.
Budget: £19 million.
Awards:
2010 RIBA Regional Award (North West).
2010 Institution of Structural Engineers International Awards, Community or Residential Structures, Commendation.
2010 Concrete Society Awards, Building Category, Commendation.
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Architects ALSOP
Duncan Macaulay joined Alsop in 1995 and has been involved in all aspects of design and realisation of, housing and rail projects. He has specific responsibility for development of all areas of commercial and residential projects. He is currently Project Director for Chips, Manchester. Located in New Islington masterplan regeneration area. He was also Project Director for Palestra, London, a mixed-use office. Located in Southwark. Duncan also has undertaken part time teaching at both the Architectural Association and Cambridge University.
Jonathan Leah is a Director of Architecture at Alsop and is responsible for the practice's growing educational sector work. He was the Director in charge of the Ben Pimlott Building. He was responsible for the practice's DfES Exemplar Secondary School design and is currently working on two new secondary schools in Maidstone, Kent. Jonathan was the Director in charge of the award winning Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is currently working with City College Norwich on a major new £30m development.
Max Titchmarsh is a Director of Architecture at Alsop and is responsible for much of the practice's work in the masterplanning and urban vision sector. Max joined the practice initially in 1993 while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture and has been involved in a wide variety of projects at all stages of design and construction.
Shaun Russell joined Alsop in 1999 having completed North Greenwich Station. His interest in large-scale Infrastructure projects and Masterplanning began prior to that whilst working for Terry Farrell & Company between 1987 and 1992. Shaun also spent two years working in Berlin at Heinle Wischer & Partner on Architectural and Masterplanning projects.
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