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Shed modernism

Cut + Run edi­tors had clocked up yet another award just as we were putting the fin­ish­ing touches on their new facil­i­ties in Soho.

Dayn Williams edited, and Dan Swi­et­lik co-edited Carl Erik Rinsch’s futur­is­tic action thriller short film, The Gift, which has won the inau­gral Gold Film Craft Lion at the 2010 Cannes Lions Inter­na­tional Adver­tis­ing Festival.

You can read the full story here and watch it here.

51% shortlisted as AA Masterplan Architect

51% stu­dios has this week been short­listed with four other firms for the role of mas­ter­plan archi­tect for the Archi­tec­tural Asso­ci­a­tion, which has recently aquired the leases of a num­ber Grade 1 listed build­ings in Bed­ford Square in addi­tion to those already held for the his­toric build­ings at 34–36.

Oth­ers on the short­list are Don­ald Insall Asso­ciates, Richard Grif­fiths Archi­tects, With­er­ford Wat­son Mann and Wright & Wright.

 

Cut + Run New York

Cut + Run has opened a new sus­tain­able edit facil­ity at 599 Broad­way in NYC in a build­ing we first admired back in 1985  .  .  .  51% stu­dios’ radi­ant inte­rior for the award win­ning edi­tors of An Incon­ve­nient Truth mixes nat­ural light with reclaimed mate­ri­als to cre­ate an invit­ing and earth friendly edit­ing experience.

Recy­cle and reduce: The facil­ity embraces green build­ing strate­gies, pay­ing spe­cial atten­tion to pro­mot­ing the use of nat­ural light. A fam­ily of seven suites is crafted from recy­cled, light­weight and translu­cent mate­ri­als with a mono­lithic resin floor to reflect and amplify the nat­ural light.  No dry wall and lit­tle glass is used, and suites made from formaldehyde-free, post-industrial recy­cled wood fibre­board are sound­proofed with recy­cled jeans.

Suite inte­ri­ors are indi­vid­u­ally dec­o­rated and fur­nished, with one wall left pre­dom­i­nantly raw and fin­ished in a nat­ural soy based clear sealant. Split bat­tens enable the con­stant tech­ni­cal upgrade and main­te­nance whilst keep­ing cables dis­creet. Com­puter aided con­struc­tion by Show­man Fab­ri­ca­tors allowed a rapid fit out on site, and pro­duced beau­ti­fully clean interiors.

The com­bi­na­tion of translu­cent poly­car­bon­ate walls, top lit with dim­ma­ble low energy diodes and a mocha coloured resin floor give the over­all effect of a calm radi­ance. Five offline suites, a graph­ics suite and a new HD fin­ish­ing suite are the cre­ative heart of the space. All rooms have been the lat­est ver­sions of Avid and Final Cut and are SD/HD compatible.

Mumsnet Towers

51% stu­dios would like to wish Mum­snet a very happy 1oth birth­day.  It’s been won­der­ful work­ing with you, and amaz­ing to con­sider the action your new shed meet­ing room has seen over the last year alone ! Con­grat­u­la­tions and all the best for the next 10 years!

Shed Mod­ernism: Bis­cuit­gate hap­pened here …

When Jus­tine Roberts approached us to design a meet­ing room for Mum­snet Tow­ers, the para­me­ters were sim­ple: it had to pro­vide pri­vacy and yet allow nat­ural light through it and it had to be good value for money. Oh, and it also needed to be light­weight, demount­able and sustainable.

51% stu­dios chose poly­car­bon­ate pan­els over glass to pro­vide acoustic insu­la­tion, fil­ter the light and give pri­vacy whilst still being light and easy to trans­port and han­dle. Pan­els were cut to size on site and can be recy­cled after use.

The fram­ing is from sus­tain­able British grown cedar, adapted from a rain­screen pro­file we have been using in Dun­ge­ness, set back-to-back to pro­vide stiff­ness whilst sup­port­ing the pan­els with­out any fix­ings. Cedar is also light­weight, and weath­ers to a soft sil­ver over time. We achieved the clean floor to ceil­ing fin­ish with the help of Tripledot’s fine car­pen­ters who scribed the cedar to the undu­lat­ing planes of the exist­ing ware­house shell.

We love the clever com­po­nents Item Prod­ucts makes for pack­ag­ing and have used on the their heav­ier duty han­dles for the slid­ing door. We exposed the self fin­ished poly­car­bon­ate edge so no frame was needed on the lead­ing edge of the slid­ing door, allow­ing it to slot effort­lessly into the same cedar detail as the other panels.

For pho­tos and videos of Mum­snet 10^th Anniver­sary Party at Google HQ, do have a look at these links on Flickr or Mum­snet

Whitechapel Art Gallery

We were briefed to mod­ern­ize the Whitechapel’s back of house, car­ry­ing new iden­tity into these spaces in fresh and play­ful ways. The desire for soft, organic mate­ri­als and low embod­ied energy led to the sourc­ing of a reclaimed gym­na­sium floor, re-laid through­out with the orig­i­nal sports mark­ings left intact.

The kitchen allows infor­mal lunches as well as more for­mal staff meet­ings and pre­sen­ta­tions, with ‘ideas shelves’ for impro­vi­sory mini exhi­bi­tions, with pin boards and new lock­ers for vis­it­ing exhi­bi­tion staff.

The director’s office is recon­fig­ured to allow extra space for meet­ings. Large trans­par­ent slid­ing screens replace exist­ing painted tim­ber doors to opti­mise nat­ural day light­ing in all offices, simul­ta­ne­ously enhanc­ing the sense of com­mu­nity between team members.

Orig­i­nal desk­ing is kept, and resur­faced, over­head cab­i­nets are re-used for stor­age and work­sta­tions per­son­alised with indi­vid­ual roll out libraries.

Roof spaces will be insu­lated with locally sourced mate­ri­als and relined to pro­vide addi­tional stor­age which will improve both energy effi­ciency and com­fort levels.

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