Workplace

Riverside Studios: A modular solution providing low-cost business units in Shoreham Port

Working with our long-term collaborators OSM construction, we developed an original planning design by ECE architects, to suit volumetric modular construction. The development created 11 office spaces of varying sizes on the water’s edge.

The site itself was highly constrained, with narrow access along the active quay side at Shoreham Harbour. Our challenge was to create a modular solution within the site constraints and to suit the existing planning approval.

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Stickland Wright altered the original design to suit off-site manufacture, lift accessibility and material vocabulary. Working with ECE Planning, a new approval was obtained as a minor amendment to the original scheme. 

Our SW+ service included specialist detailed design support to co-ordinate the development of modular components and integration into the setting and with ‘bolt-on’ features. We also co-ordinated compliance sign off for the works.

The modules comply with the latest thermal fabric standards, but more than this, the containerised blocks and bolt-on features can all be removed and re-used in other locations. This embraces ideas of circularity and renewal.