Interior Design Reference

Building Interior Design of Inland Revenue Centre by Hopkins Architects. The transformation of a brownfield site extends the character and urban grain of the city, to create accommodation space for 1,800 staff.

Inland Revenue Centre - Hopkins Architects

Seven separate buildings, in the form of courtyards and L-shaped blocks, range along a curving spine road, lined with trees and car parking. It is crossed by radiating streets, which focus on Nottingham Castle, on a steep bluff above. The amenity building, with a dramatic fabric roof, suspended from four raking steel masts, is placed centrally along the spine.  It is both the visual and social centre of the complex, containing a multi-purpose sports hall, flanked by changing rooms on the ground floor and by a bar and restaurants on the balcony above.

Inland Revenue Centre - Hopkins Architects

The office buildings were extensively pre-fabricated to meet a tight construction programme. The local bricks of the load-bearing piers were laid in a factory, around steel lifting rods, in storey height units. They support shallow barrel-vaulted concrete floor spanning the width of the building. The office buildings are capped with projecting lead-clad attics. The Centre was a pioneering ‘Green’ project in the UK.

At night the inherent thermal mass of the concrete is exploited and purged with fresh air to pre cool the structure. At the corners of the buildings, the air within the glass block stair towers warms and rises on sunny days, giving extra drive to the ventilation system. Fabric umbrellas on the tops of the towers act as large dampers, lifting to exhaust hot air and closing, on cool days, to conserve heat.

For more information, please visit Hopkins Architects website.

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