Juniper House
The architects aim was to rebuild a corner site adjoining the King’s Lynn conservation area and to create an imaginative mixed development responding to the council’s Agenda 21 commitments. Approximately 1500 square meters of office space utilises an innovative low energy strategy for providing environmental control of the spaces. The building structure is an integral part of the heating and cooling processes and high levels of insulation and air tightness minimise heat loss through the fabric.
The site also accommodates two houses designed as lifetime homes and three flats. To the rear is a public garden with its boundary on the burial ground of St Nicholas church. The massing of the buildings is very specific to the site with the rear office element reflection the shallow pitch of the north aisle of the church. The relatively high three storey office building steps down in scale using the reduced volume of the houses and flats before abutting the lower listed properties beyond.
The development was a finalist in the Prime Minister’s Better Public Buildings in 2001, winner of CPRE awards, featured in several Commission for the Built Environment publications and as a case study in EcoTech-Sustainable Architecture Today journal.
