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Sustainable Design
Our approach is to work collaboratively with our clients to develop comprehensive sustainable solutions that are practical and appropriate to each project.
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"For good architects, green design is now fundamental to the way they think, as integral as drains and wiring. It is no longer an optional extra."
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Kingsway Primary School
Quattro’s vision for Kingsway was to design a building that created a sense of place; that reflected the spirit of the former RAF site on which it is built and that created an environment to enhance learning and teaching, delighting children, parents and staff through its form and colours.
Digital energy-use readouts, solar panels and windcatchers are sust...
The Withywood Centre
This inspirational community led project is at the heart of the regeneration of Withywood. The centre provides a church, a health centre, community café, function halls, internet café, youth café, play zone, meeting rooms, advice centre and project offices. The building is designed for ultimate flexibility and multiple use, where ease of management and security is key...
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National Wildlife Conservation Park
Quattro have been working with Bristol Zoo in the development of their ground breaking National Wildlife Conservation Park project; in partnership with other design teams, Quattro has helped to work up the design for this iconic world class visitor attraction and has assembled a detailed planning application for the scheme. Quattro’s particular design responsibility r...
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For All Healthy Living Centre
This healthy living centre project provides local people with community support. It brings together multiple facilities including: a GP surgery, a library, a community café, a community day centre, a multiple use hall, a church, a children’s centre, meeting rooms and offices; by bringing these facilities together, it enables links to be made between different organisa...
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Wellspring Healthy Living Centre
The Wellspring Healthy Living Centre is at the heart of Barton Hill’s New Deal for Communities regeneration plans. The building includes a doctor’s surgery, a café, a crèche and many other community facilities. Five artists were involved at the design development stage and this provided opportunities for local people to be...
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The Terrace Theatre, Bristol Zoo Gardens
Quattro have created a delightful pavilion at the heart of the historic Bristol Zoo Gardens. The Terrace Theatre was designed through a series of collaborative workshops with consultants, contractor and zoo staff all contributing inspiration; an overlapping two stage tender process allowed the entire design and construction to take place within an astonishingly short ...
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Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre
Quattro have undertaken extensive remodelling of an existing Nature Discovery Centre; the building has also been extended by the addition of a distinctive freestanding classroom. This project was undertaken for West Berkshire Council who required the design to be a showcase for environmental sustainability: high levels of insulation were specified with heating being p...
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PLUMP HILL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE
The extension to this environmental education centre used by Gloucestershire County Schools has recently been completed. Not only does the building display an exciting range of sustainable qualities, it is also an educational tool demonstrating to pupil visitors the impact made by these features on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. These include local materials; h...
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NEWENT SCHOOL ECO LABORATORY
The school required a new laboratory to meet curriculum requirements and inspired by exchange visits with a school in Kenya the pupils requested that it be developed as an eco lab. Quattro were commissioned to lead an extensive consultation process with pupils, parents, teachers, governors and community users and to develop the design with delivery of the building in...
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Conservation Education centre for Bristol Zoo
Quattro's delightful but inexpensive conservation education centre for Bristol Zoo Gardens is acknowledged as on of the greenest buildings in the city. The two storey conservation education centre was built to a low budget and provides classrooms, animal rooms, administration and research areas.
The highly insulated building is provided with high density th...