Chilworth Science Park Client: Chilworth Science Park Value: Phase one – £1,200,000 | Phase two - £1,300,000 Location: Southampton, Hampshire The development provides small scale and start-up accommodation for fledgling businesses. In addition to working spaces it offers social and support facilities which small businesses would find difficult to provide independently. They include meeting rooms, management offices, stores, toilets and kitchenettes. Additional car parking facilities were also provided. Two three-storey ‘bookend’ buildings were added to an existing two-storey block in two phases. A central spine format was adopted, making available accommodation either side of a circulation zone. Individual “cells” were created in response to occupier demand. The main reception faces the site's main entrance. The accommodation is built on a slightly sloping, semi-rural site within the grounds of a former country house. Site constraints included trees with Preservation Orders in force, a balancing pond, a 42” gas main, and an adjoining occupied building. Localised demolition of part of the existing adjoining building was required on Phase One, whilst Phase Two necessitated the construction of the first floor accommodation above an active boiler/plant room. Structurally, the buildings have steel frames, reinforced concrete floors and elements of structure that feature externally. Cavity masonry with brick outer skin is utilised on the ground floor, a block inner leaf with profiled metal sheet outer skin on the first floor, and curved profiled metal decking to the roof. The two link block elevations incorporate glazed curtain walling.