Glassfields
Creating the best workplace for people to flourish
Sector: Commercial
Client: Royal London Asset Management
Location: Bristol
Architect: AWW
Main Contractor: BAM
M & E Contractor: Totus
Lighting Design: One Eighty Light
Lighting Partners: iGuzzini, Tecnilum, Tom Dixon
Words: AWW
Photograhy: Kenton Simons
During the 1970’s this central Bristol site was cleared to make way for Guardian Royal Exchange office, demolished in 2010. Plot 2 occupying 0.32 hectares within the overall s1.32 hectare development, hosts the first phase of the masterplan, a 90,000 sq ft commercial office development. Now named ‘The Distillery’ Plot 2 references the sites heritage as home to the Bristol Distillery Company from 1880 until 1040.
The focus for AWW Architects and the design team was to create the best workplace for people to flourish. This fully flexible design blurs the edges of the inside and outside, with people to move freely through the spaces. The buildings are not a regiular shape: they are set at angles to allow for visual and physical connectivity. Allowing people to see further entices them through the site.
Instead of a traditional essential core, AWW Architects have created a central vibrant heart space. the theme is connection and connectivity, encouraging interactions dn cross pollination of ideas and relationships across the floors, with the link bridges designed to connect people physically and metaphorically.
The distillery has been designed to be extremely flexible in use with floor plates intended for occupation by one or two tenants and the building to be single let or in multi tenant occupation.
