Interior Design Reference

Interior Architecture Building of The Forum by Hopkins Architects. After a fire destroyed the Norwich Library in 1994, a Millenium Project was initiated to re-house it, together local visitor and business centres, a ‘Heritage’ exhibition and shop, bar and restaurant and the local BBC station – ‘Look East’.

The Forum - Hopkins Architects

The old library site was combined with the adjacent car park to form a complete city block, surrounded by civic buildings. The Forum is conceived as a courtyard surrounded by a three storey, horseshoe-shaped enclosure of loadbearing brickwork, which accommodates the various activities on a series of balconies.

The Forum - Hopkins Architects

The courtyard roof is supported by bow-string steel trusses forming leaf shaped panels, infilled with acoustically absorbent material or glazing. Light enters into the heart of the building, creating a dynamic public atrium.

The Forum - Hopkins Architects

The key sustainable strategy is the use of the building mass as a ‘passive’ environmental modifier and the introduction of ‘active’ building engineering systems, only to assist the fabric to recycle ambient energy.

The Forum - Hopkins Architects

The Forum has already established itself as a focus for city activities.  It’s spectacular glazed end wall frames the Gothic church tower of St Peter Mancroft, welcoming the city in, and forming a major new public space in the forecourt.

The Forum - Hopkins Architects

For more information, please visit Hopkins Architects website.

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