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A Cup From
Heaven
WWW.ECO-CAFE.CO.UK
128 High Street
Dale End
Birmingham
B4 7LN
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WE ARE FUTURE DESIGN
TECH LIMITED AND WE
AIM FOR SUSTAINABLE
DESIGNS.
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INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY
Project proposal:
BSBE Developments have decided to invest in re designing the Dale End site by bringing a new design
that will involve sustainable attributes.
A café proposal has been requested by BSBE developments in order to transform the site and the environment
around the site. The three main agendas that were proposed for the café were building
longevity, energy conservation and renewable resourcies.
The clients recommendations are to build a visual anchor within the urban setting, which is ideally
popular and addresses the social and cultural impacts around the Dale End Site.
Stakeholders:
The stake holders for this particular construction are BSBE Developments and Birmingham City University.
The clients has decided along side the café a proposed mixed used retail accommodation will
be constructed for all types of student houses that follows through the educational sector of priory
queens way.
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DALE END SITE:
The Dale End is located in Birmingham high street, this site
has an allocated NCP car park and it is currently used as a
place for the general public to use the car park for a place of
parking. The site has two main entrances Albert street and
Dale End. The advantages of these entrances and exits are
that they help reduce congestion from morning to peak
times.
Currently on the site there is a big slope on one site of the
site this means that the topography of the site shows one
side of the site is higher than the other. The advantage of the
slope is that it can be used to a SUDs pond. This pond will allow
for the slope to produce water surface run off which will
be linked to the pond to reduce overflows and flooding within
the site of the area it is allocated.
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EXISTING SITE ANALYSIS:
The site is currently owned By the Birmingham city council, which is currently a cark park. On
the site you can see construction materials and the slope. This currently has two entrances.
One entrance is from Albert street and the other entrance is from the Dale End bridge. The
site currently is used for car parking, with cars coming in and out of it everyday.
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Moor street Station:
Moor Street Station is located on Moor Street Queensway , this is a benefit to the site because it allows
for commuters to come in and out of Birmingham so that they can use the café . The Benefit of this station
is that it is in constant use everyday so this will allow the café to make some potential customers.
Hotel Latour:
The Hotel is used often to accommodate for business class members the café can be an attraction which
may allow for the external commuters that come from the hotel to use the café as place of having their
everyday coffee or tea.
Bullring:
The Bullring is the main business attraction which will provide the café with a lot of customers as a lot of
the general public use the moor street route in to the bullring placing the café near the Queensway is a
benefit for the café and the members of public.
McLaren Building:
The McLaren building has become another landmark in Birmingham its purpose is to provide educational
facilities this could benefit the site in terms of having the workers in the building to the café for breaks..
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PLANNING GUIDANCE
Design Data:
The café has been designed in a sustainable manner in order to make the design suitable for the environment.
The café will have many sustainable attributes in order to achieve an efficient design that will fit its
surroundings. The materials have been listed below, that have been considered in the guidance of the
planning stage.
Materials Planning stage:
Green roof : This will be beneficial to the environment and natural habitation for wildlife. The green
roof will provide sufficient insulation to the roof, which will prevent the heat within the building to
escape through the roof.
Air tech Rain screen Cladding: This enhances the buildings exterior high quality finish and also prevent
water or damp on the buildings walls. This material will fit the environment from surrounding
buildings.
Pilkington Glazing: This is a robust triple glazing system that provides security to the building, its
sole purpose is to trap natural light and prevent and minimise the heat loss ratio.
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RAINSCREEN:
Green Roof:
Pilkington Glazing:
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Access and connectivity:
The site is connected to many
of its surroundings such as at
the front entrance (Albert
street), there is hotel Latour,
the moor street station and
the front entrance to the bullring.
The back entrance is Dale
End and from this rear entrance
you will be connected
to the high street shops,
McLaren building, colleges and
the rear entrance to bullring.
CONNECTIVITY
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TRANSPORTATION
The bus transport is located on
moor street queens way , it can
be used to locate to the nearest
bus stop. The bus shelters
allow you to locate the number
of the bus and the time of arrival
within the city centre,
The taxi drop off points and
pick ups are located at the entrance
of bullring. This services
allows users to commute
within Birmingham either using
a call out service or an UB-
ER service.
The is Fazeley Street car
park, this allows commuters
to use a pay and
display services on a
hourly basis. This car
park is used for external
commuters.
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CAFÉ ODE: CONCEPT DESIGN: A Devon cafe designed by Exeterbased
LHC Architecture has been named the most sustainable restaurant
in the UK. The single-storey cafe seats 120 , wooden furnishing
all recycles wood. Large windows for solar renewable energy
and also low energy lighting to save energy. Café ODE was
given an overall sustainability score of 94%. It was also Redesigned
from the outside to give it the original stone masonry
look, so that it fits within its surrounding area. Features large
windows to maximise natural light and heat absorption. A grass
roof was designed to attract wildlife.
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SUMMARY:
The concept design was initially based on the Café
ODE sustainable attributes, this café was one of the
best sustainable and top rated by bream standards
in incorporating materials that will push the sustainable
boundaries.
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The concept of the café came from café ODE, the building shape was sharp and
its feature of the design was in a form of a square box extension, this really
made a broader feature to its customers. In my concept design the evolution
stage had progressed when I decided that I would like to try to absorb enough
natural light into the model in terms of using the internal lights. My design concept
was made out of card board, plastic cups and foam. What really pushed
my design to another level of sustainability was that I added the paper cups as
a feature of light tubes that could allow natural sunlight to go straight through,
so that internal lights were not needed. As Café ODE was square shaped I decided
that I would like to add curves in order to add glazing such as a curtain
wall that would go around the curve, again the objective by doing this method
was that I would be able to gain enough natural sustainable light energy.
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FINAL BUILDING FORMS
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DESIGN BREAKDOWN
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Social benefit:
The social benefit of the site is that on the landscape plan, there is many green spaces with seating areas
in the middle of the site. This is an opportunity to use this area as a place to relax, liaise with others
and even use it to commute to a single place of work.
SUDS:
In the middle of the site suds pond has been incorporated to the site in order to allow it to be used to
store water surface run offs and natural rain water, this will be cleaned out by the tank systems of the
mixed used building in order to achieve its sustainable use. The SUD’s pond will allow for re use and
recycled grey water to be used repeatedly to reduce the chances of waste.
Habitat provision:
These provisions have been taken into considerations in order to allow for natural wildlife on to the site
in order to enhance the sustainable objective. On site the green spaces have been included wildlife
habitation as well as the green trees. For example the trees can be used as a source of habitation. The
green roof space will provide its natural growing process, which will make the site and its environment
very sustainable.
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SUSTAINABLE AGENDA RESPONCE
THREE MAIN AGENDA RESPONCES:
Longevity: The materials will be situated to a life time guarantee, this is because
most of the materials have been carefully picked out and chosen for the sustainable
design process of this design. I believe that the building will be able to hold
the design materials, however maintenance will need to be undertaken every
three years to ensure its durability for its life span.
Energy conservation: The buildings window glazed cladding will allow for the
building to gather in the light in order to achieve high bream rated sustained energy.
This will allow for the natural sunlight to flow through the building in order
to conserve that energy.
Renewable Resources: The renewable resources are the glazing curtain wall and
the green roofing on the top of the building of which will allow for the natural energy
they produce to be resourced back into the building.
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ADDITIONAL STRUCTURAL DRAWING
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