Team Name: Group 6

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1. The Cathedral Green: Re-building

the ruins of the main entrance arc

potential construction risks and

the meaning of the historic fabric –
Our aim is to take advantage the Existing Grade I Listed Bishops Palace by re-imagining its function and bringing back adapting it to current needs without
parts of its initial form, to meet the needs of the Llandaff School, Cathedral and the rest of the community, retrieving life
and use to the site, preserving its historical heritage. The scheme will look to provide ease of access for students and
directly interfering with it.
staff of the Llandaff Cathedral School, local performance groups, and would keep its public sense by remaining accessible
to the rest of the community. 2. Car Park: opening the site from
the car park, creating new circulation
route.

Would the capacity of the parking lot

be enough if the site becomes too
public?
CIRCULATION ZONES

existing entrance site boundry 3. Entrance to the school:

new public entrance Historic ruins
Construction a new building that
could be connected to the East
public circulation public open areas
Tower, which can become a junction
new private entrance public performance between the site and the school
semi-open spaces
private circulation
treshold zone
potential construction risks and
the meaning of the historic fabric –
extension of the school adapting it to current needs
Llandaff School
Presence of trees – building around
private connection with them or removing them. Cost and
the school
Historical significance
car parking

Threshold of private VS public – How

can the safety be ensured? How to
integrate children within the public
area

4. Remains of the Hall: digging up the

wall which is 1.6m underground

Increase of cost

Creating a public theatre – how can

we ensure the preservation of the
historical heritage
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(Identify additional promotors/stakeholders/users and how they would integrate with those suggested by Outline Accommodation Schedule:
the Client’s brief)
(List a suggested programme summary)

Lunch Eaters Dog Walkers

Administration
From Cathedral Close Public

Cathedral WC
Choir
Audience Visitors
Reception Performance space
Public

Local
School
Historians
Performances Storage
School Choir
Stakeholders
Royal Welsh
Courtyard WC
School of Music & linking public to private space Cafe
Drama

School Llandaff Theatre

Rehersals Company Practice
Private room

Practice
Drama Practice room WC
School Community
Rehersals room
Theatre

Cardiff Met
Catherdral School
University
Drama & Creative To Cathedral School Private
Writing
School Choir School
Performances Drama & Media Basic area requirements: Performance space/ seating area: 0.7m2 per audi-
ence memeber (with individual seating)
Reception: 10m2
Performance spce/stage:
Administartion office: 20m2 - for drama: 10x8m
- for dance/opera: 10x10m
Café: 1.5m2 per seat
Practice rooms: 55m2 for 30 pupils
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Private Enclosed
Spaces

Private Enclosed
Spaces

Communal Foyer
space

Modular Open Spatial Configurations Wroughton Academy / DK-CM

• Total building area 36,027 sf
• Cost £0.5 Million
Programmatic Precedent
• Area 350m2
• 1,428.57 £/m2
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama / BFLS
Designed as space to bring to schools together, the extension is a
• Budget £22.5m
precedent that highlight the potential of flexible open spaces that
• Area: 4400m2
can have numerous interpretations. Flexible spaces with minimal
4 People 1 People • Price per square meter 5,114 £/m2
intervention yield a great transformative impact at the lowest possi-
Cathedral School bears ties to the Neighbouring Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,
ble cost, touching on cost the project uses CLT and Glulam offsite
with the schools current concert grand piano originally residing at the College. The 2011 exten-
fabricated pieces to provide speedy assembly ‘minimising disrup-
sion added 1 Concert Hall, 1Theatre and 4 Rehersal studios, perfectly display of a program
tion to the operation school’. All of this achieved whilst maintaining
that successfully delineates private and public spaces with a large gathering space at
a strong aesthetic synonymous sustainable, and environmental
the heart of the project, with a superb understanding of scale realtive to site. Interms of
design.
cost the project runs above the financial expectation of the program, we do not expect to deploy
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Estimated Operating revenue, costs, and net operating revenue project sta- material at the same high quality but seek to rely on more financialy sustainable exposed timber
ble-year operation as shown in the Wroughton Academy precedent.
Spon’s First Stage Estimating Handbook 3rd Sources of Funding + Potential revenue
EditioWn – Bryan Spain
• Community centres 1100–1300 £/m2 • The Big Lottery capital grant
• Concert halls 2300–3300 £/m2 • National trust
Average (Community Centre & Exhibition Build- • Welsh Government Community Facilities Programme
ing)
• Llandaff Theatre Company
Lowest Price – 1,700 £/m2
• For a 500m2 site, a price of £850,000 • Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Average – 2,000 £/m2 • Cardiff Metropolitan University
• For a 500m2 site, a price of £1,000,000 • Higher Education Funding Council for Wales HEFCW
Maximum 2,300 £/m2
• For a 500m2 site, a price of £1,150,000