New Starter – Maees Hadi 

Maees Hadi has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having previously worked with social housing specialist Henly Halebrown and studied at the Royal College of Art.

Maees’  interest in architecture is influenced by research and spatial design that can guide us to develop better spaces for people. Maees wants to develop her skills in socially-led projects and be more involved in work that serves the community. Maees Hadi is an architectural designer, researcher and a filmmaker. She has a multidisciplinary practice and engages in research topics such as political identity, representation and the migrant subject which has developed from her own studies and experiences. Maees was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1993, however grew up in Sweden and later moved to London where she started her academic studies and later work. Maees holds an MA architectural degree from the Royal College of Art, London and a History of Art certificate from Birkbeck University, London.

Maees work has recently been shown in Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021 and screened in Christies and at the Design Film Festival by curating contemporary design in collaboration with the Design Museum in London.

Re-imagining Short Breaks and Respite Care for Young People

Working closely with the Northants Healthcare NHS Trust, the Fleet team have reviewed the practical and emotive opportunities to improve the environment to house a vulnerable cohort for  short respite breaks.  The service users include disabled children and young people with disabilities including either a diagnosis of autism, complex health needs and/or complex behaviour.

The proposals sought to introduce more safety measures to the bedrooms while de-institutionalising and bringing in opportunities to personalise the spaces for each of the circa 72 children and young people using the facility annually.

At the core of the proposals was the need to open up the living and dining spaces to more natural light and the extensive gardens while, critically, still maintaining the physical flexibility staff require to support the residents.

New Starter – Amy Matthews-Page

Amy Matthews Page has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 1 Architectural Designer form the exciting RIBA Studio course run through Oxford Brookes University (https://www.architecture.com/education-cpd-and-careers/studying-architecture/riba-studio).

The RIBA Studio programme is for students in practice, who would like to work towards qualifying as an architect whilst remaining in employment. Unlike any studio and lecture based programme in architecture, you will work towards either your, Part 1 or Part 2 qualification whilst working full-time, under the direct supervision of an architect in your office, the office mentor and with a personal tutor who has current experience of design in a School of Architecture.

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Community Diagnostics for Norfolk and Waveney

Employing the GIS mapping techniques developed for the Well Placed Hospital essay, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson Economics Prize, the Fleet and Place and Purpose Teams first analysed the most effective locations by access to locate the new Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC).

These locations were then assessed against the available property, circa 30 were identified, including existing NHS void spaces and a wide range of commercial spaces including former shops and department stores.

The Norfolk and Waveney CDCs are following a hub and spoke model with the high tech equipment, MRI and CT for instance, concentrated on existing acute sites.  The spoke CDCs will incorporate a range of pathways including Respiratory, Cardiac, Cancer, Upper/Lower GI, Urological, Head and Neck, Ophthalmology, MSK and Diabetes.  The designs seek to maximise flexibility of room use, with emphasis on adequate size, generous storage and non-specialism to ensure the buildings have a use stretching long into the future.

Current sites being evaluated include a former Wilkinsons, combing the works with the redesign of a community well-being facility and the re-use of 2 currently empty former inpatient wards within community hospital settings.

Read our essay ‘A Well Placed Hospital’ here:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6884476700617388032/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(ugcPost%3A6884476699900170240%2C6884514039808978946)

More comment on the benefits of relocating health services to high foot fall town centre locations here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaimerbishop_mungo-smith-recently-sent-me-a-link-to-an-activity-6939549453523562496-12J3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Sam Mendes Stops Filming and Work Finally Starts at the Shakespeare

Work at Shakespeare Hotel and Workspace on the beach front in Margate, a joint venture between Fleet Architects with private investment partners and a business development loan from the Kent and Medway Business Development Fund.

Works on site works were delayed initially by a moratorium on seafront scaffolding due to the ongoing filming of Sam Mendes’ latest project, Empire of Light staring Olivia Coleman – https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/filming-well-under-way-for-hollywood-blockbuster-263504/

Double National Lottery Heritage Funding Success

Two Fleet Architects projects have received positive news in the latest round of National Lottery Heritage Funding.

Phase 2 of HatWorks, the conversion of a Grade II listed former hat factory in Luton, has received £885,000 (58% of the total project) to proceed with the next phase of the works.  Hatworks is Fleet Architects second project with the Culture Trust following the completed HatHouse scheme, and the third project in the HatDistrict overall.  As with Hathouse and Peterson’s (below) this is is a another collaboration with our friends at YOU&ME.

Fleet Architects with our friends at Bernadette Bone Heritage Studio and YOU&ME along with the Client team, The Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust (GGIFT), in partnership with North East Lincolnshire council and Associated British Ports, has secured £947,400 in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Architectural Heritage Fund to deliver the Peterson’s Fish Smokehouse project. The Grade II listed smokehouse, with adjacent building “Fred’s Fish” on Wharncliffe Road, will be brought back into use and the rental income will support future projects in the Kasbah to be undertaken by the Trust.

The total monies add up to £1,074,000 – £647,400 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, a £300,000 Transformational Project grant from the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Transforming Places Through Heritage programme and a previously awarded £60,000 from both bodies.

Recruitment

Recruitment

Fleet are currently seeking to appoint a newly qualified RIBA Part 3/ARB or experienced Part 2 Architectural Assistant.

The role requires excellent all round communication skills and previous experience of job running and project management.

Please send a hard copy CV and work samples at A4 size to:

Recruitment

Fleet Architects

The Five Points Warehouse, 61 Mare Street

Hackney

E8 4RG

Fleet is a London Living Wage and Equal Opportunities Employer.

Zachary Marshall

Architect (ARB)

Zachary Marshall studied architecture at London Metropolitan University, the Royal College of Art and London Southbank University. At the RCA he received the Thames + Hudson / RCA Society architecture prize for his thesis design project for a new school in Hackney.

He has worked on a number of award winning projects at various notable practices of architecture and as a sole practitioner. He has vast experience in the delivery of new buildings, particularly in the hospitality and domestic sectors.

Zachary opened ZJM Architecture in 2011 and is a registered architect.

Dr Patrick Hutt

MBBS DFSRH MRCGP

Patrick Hutt is a newly qualified GP who has written extensively on General Practice and acts as an external consultant to Fleet. He is author of Confronting an ill Society, a biography of David Widgery, a radical East End GP. At University College London he is currently researching the evidence for differing health centre configurations, motivated by the recent proposals for polyclinics. Other areas of interest include the Japanese Healthcare system, looking at the role primary care plays in this. He is Junior Editor of InnovAIT – the journal for GP trainees. He lives in and is from Hackney.

Daniel Sanderson

MARCA

Daniel founded TWOC after graduating from the MA Architecture course at the Royal College of Art in 2002. His thesis project, a Nokia Community, earned him a place in Building Design’s prestigious top 100 Students – Class of 2002. Now known as Sanderson Studio they produce some of the finest visualisation media available. Previously Daniel has worked on a number of high profile projects including the Baby Dome ‘Skyscape’ for the Millennium Experience, the Orange House of the future and Vodafone’s European headquarters.

Daniel leads a group of talented artists and designers that collaborate on a range of technology, graphic and architectural projects. Dan worked with Jaime Bishop on the complex visualisation products for a number of PFI schemes including the successful Walsall, Runwell and Stanley projects.