Renewal-Zone：再塑可持续性与长效潜能︱英国电影和电视艺术学院总部
位列二级保护建筑名录的BAFTA总部的综合扩建和重新设计，加强了英国电影和电视艺术学院（BAFTA）在电影、游戏和电视电影艺术领域卓越的国际地位；项目融合了前沿的创新技术和高效的使用成本，同时谨慎地平衡了成员的需求、公共开放性与机构的收益，以确保慈善机构在社会、环境和经济方面拥有长效的可持续性。
自1974年创立以来，BAFTA一直坐落于皮卡迪利大街195号。该地作为皇家水彩画家学院（JMW特纳的半身像位于立面）建于1883年，当时为临近的皇家学院所忽视。由于建筑在规模、布局和功能上的不足，BAFTA不断扩大的慈善项目的实施受到了极大的限制。新皇冠地产租约超过了100周年，推动了项目的更新改造，并由Benedetti建筑师事务所负责建筑和室内的设计。BAFTA的项目资金由捐赠或储备金组成，没有政府补贴。
这座陈旧的保护建筑面积达2050平方米，已无法满足使用的需求，且运行维护成本高昂。设计打造了2465平方米的前沿灵活空间，有助慈善机构平衡教育工作与成员的需求和收益。学习/新人才楼层作为建筑的空间中心，实现了慈善机构的核心使命，为电影、游戏、电视领域多元化的年轻创意人才提供灵感和培训支持。
经过重新设计，使用面积得到大幅增加，空间容量和卫生间增加了一倍，同时建筑拥有了全新的基础设施，消防安全、能源性能、声学、室内气温和功能都得到了优化。一致的室内设计彰显了BAFTA历史保护建筑的特色。创造性的重新设计涵盖了空间、体量、视角和空间序列的多种组合，赋予了建筑在慈善和商业运营方面的适应性，并提供了戏剧放映和特色活动的空间，确保了机构在社会效益和财务方面的可持续发展。
新的顶楼是设计的一大亮点，由建于1883年的两个维多利亚式屋顶采光空间和尘封40余年、一度被认为已失存的灰泥天花板经过修复、抬升，重新整合而成。历史悠久的灰泥结构被抬高了3米，并采用高性能的创新“Eyrise”智能玻璃（在英国首次使用）密封形成新的顶层空间。人们在此可以欣赏到圣詹姆斯教堂和花园的壮丽景色。项目在英国首次使用了先进的回收聚合物“wearpure.tech”材料以3D打印的形式打造能够吸收温室气体，减少碳减排的梁和幕墙，向学习/新人才楼层的年轻访客传播可持续性的重要性。
经过更新改造，建筑的EPC能源评级从“G”提高至“B”，能够减少约73%的碳排放，单位平方米的碳排放量从155kg左右减少到约42kg，每年能够减少约292吨的碳排放。
项目包括227坐席的安妮公主影剧院（拥有全英最佳的杜比环绕声效果）、41座的新影剧院、宴会厅、4间厨房、多功能活动展览空间、会员餐厅酒吧，以及利用施工过程中发现的历史材料打造的全新天窗会议室，还增加了特别定制的全新桌椅、评审会议室、员工福利区域和办公室，以及能够俯瞰皮卡迪利和圣詹姆斯教堂庭院的新露台。
材料搭配简洁克制，经典、耐用，来源可持续，且拥有不同的纹理，精心打造的定制细节，随着楼层的增加呈现出不断迭加的精致度，并在顶层达到极致。
通过提升建筑在灵活性、功能性和经济能效方面的表现，设计兼顾了未来的需求，大力推动了学习/新人才培育计划的发展，从而促成每年约1000万名线上学习者的参与，每年为约 8万人提供电影、游戏、电视等方面的专业技能，并为500名左右的定向人才提供支持。
BENEDETTI与客户和顾问方开展了密切合作；与杜比、科视、默克、努美纳等创新企业签署合作协议，并在贯穿新冠疫情的两年半施工过程中与承包商开展积极的合作。最终这一耗资2500万英镑的项目得以在预算范围内如期完工，在试运行之后于1月23日向公众开放。
BENEDETTI建筑师事务所关注所有的客户、使用者以及设计所影响的人群，致力于打造令人愉悦的优美空间。植根于对场地语境的深入理解和对材料、尺度、光线和触感品质的敏锐把控，设计方案具有为空间增值的长效潜能。
BENEDETTI专注于深入了解客户的价值观和愿景，对场地背景开展广泛研究 ，与客户合作寻求最佳的解决方案。BENEDETTI深知成功的建筑得益于多方的共同努力，在客户、设计团队、利益相关者和建筑商之间，营造出具有创造性的开放良好的合作氛围。
BENEDETTI为所有项目在复杂条件中寻求最佳价值，以创意设计将挑战化解为实际的机遇。
The comprehensive expansion and re-design of BAFTA's Grade II listed headquarters, enhances BAFTA's international identity as the centre of excellence for motion picture arts in Film, Games and Television; integrating innovative state-of-the-art technology and cost-in-use efficiency while sensitively balancing members' needs with public access and revenue generation, ensuring the charity's long-term social, environmental, financial sustainability.
The charity's home since 1974, 195 Piccadilly was built in 1883 as the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (JMW Turner's bust on façade) when snubbed by neighbouring Royal Academy. Its size, layout and failing services severely limited BAFTA's delivery of ever-widening charitable programmes. New Crown Estate lease beyond their 100th anniversary, prompted commissioning Benedetti Architects as architects & interior designers. Funded by donations/reserves, BAFTA has no government subsidy.
The 2,050m2 Listed building was tired, unfit-for-purpose, expensive to run/maintain. Our design creates 2465m2 state-of-the-art spaces with maximum flexibility, balancing the charity's educational work with members' needs and revenue. At its heart is the Learning and New Talent floor, core to the charity's mission, enabling the inspiration, support, and training of diverse young creatives in Film/Games/TV.
Design significantly increases usable area, doubling capacity & WC's, with entirely new infrastructure, fire safety, energy performance, acoustics, thermal comfort, and useability. Unifying interior design enhances BAFTA's unique character celebrating its historic assets. Our inventive re-working of various combinations of spaces, volumes, views, sequential movement, enables robust charitable/commercial adaptability with opportunities for theatrical reveals/special events, securing the charity's long-term social and financial sustainability.
Most strikingly revelatory aspect of our design creates a new top floor that restores/raises/re-integrates two huge 1883 Victorian rooflight spaces & decorative plasterwork blocked +40 years and considered lost. The historic plasterwork/structures lifted 3m and enclosed with innovative high-performance 'Eyrise' smart glazing (first UK use) creating the new top floor with spectacular views over St James's Church & garden. Another UK first-use is our 3D-printed 'wearpure.tech' airborne-carbon reducing bar/screen highlighting sustainability to young visitors on the Learning/New-Talent floor.
EPC benchmark rating improved "G" to "B" with ±73% carbon reduction from ±155 to ±42 kg/CO2/m2 saving ±292 tonnes of carbon/year.
Includes: 227-seat Princess Anne cinema/theatre (with Dolby Atmos ensuring it's the UK's finest), new 41-seat cinema/theatre, banqueting hall, 4 kitchens, multi-purpose event/exhibition spaces, members' bar/restaurant area, new skylit boardroom re-using historic materials found during construction complementing our bespoke new table/chairs, judging/meeting rooms, staff welfare/offices, and new terraces overlooking Piccadilly and St. James's Churchyard.
Pared-down palette of classic, durable, sustainably sourced materials in varying textures, highly crafted in a suite of bespoke detailing, increasing refinement on successive floors to top-floor 'crescendo'.
Futureproofing via robust flexibility, functionality & financial efficiency, driving massive growth of learning/new-talent development programmes, resulting in: ±10,000,000 learners/year engaged online, equipping ±80,000 people/year with tools for film/games/TV careers, and ±500/year talented individuals' tailored support.
Close collaboration with client/consultants; partnering agreements with innovative firms like Dolby, Christie, Merck, Noumena etc. and proactively engaged contractors during 2.5-years construction through COVID, the £25 million project successfully completed on time & budget Sept.’22 for commissioning/training and public opening Jan.’23.
• RIBA UK Awards 2023 - London Awards - Winner
• Green Good Design Awards 2023 - Winner
• World Architecture Festival Awards 2022 - Inside: Bars & Restaurants - Highly Commended
• World Architecture Festival Awards 2022 - New & Old - Winner
• New London Architecture Awards 2022 - Conservation - Winner
• Building Innovation Awards 2022 - Most Innovative Restoration/Refurbishment - Winner
• London Construction Awards 2022 - Fit out project of the year - Winner
• SECBE Awards 2022 - Conservation & Regeneration - Winner
• FIS Awards 2022 - Plasterwork/Fine Arts Moulding - Winner
• Green Apple Awards 2022 - Beautiful Buildings - Winner
• Surface Design Awards 2022 - Public Building Interior - Winner
• Surface Design Awards 2022 - Supreme Award - Winner
We focus on people – our clients and all who use, or are affected by what we design. We create elegant and uplifting places, finding enduring solutions that add value and are rooted in a contextual understanding of place and the tactile qualities of materials, volume and light.
We enjoy taking time to understand clients' ambitions and values, the wider context and the specific site. We work with our clients to find the best solutions. Good architecture depends on many people working together. We create a relaxed atmosphere of open, creative collaboration between client, design team, stakeholders and builders.
We seek the best value out of the complex realities that all projects face, turning constraints into practical opportunities.
Location: 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
Client: BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts)
Architect & Interior Design: Benedetti Architects
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Contractor: Knight Harwood
Services Engineer: Harley Haddow
Project Manager and QS: Jackson Coles
Client Project Manager: Equals Consulting
Planning Consultant: DP9
Lighting Designer: LAPD
AV Consultant: Charcoalblue
Acoustic Consultant: Sandy Brown
Heritage Consultant: Alan Baxter Heritage
Approved Inspector: Sweco
Fire Engineer: BWC Fire
Project sector: Cultural
Budget: £33,000,000
Project completion date: January 2022
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