Architects impression

Stroud Town Council has agreed to release some of the promised capital to fund the next architectural phase for the Brunel Goods Shed project. An extended feasibility study will prepare the building for necessary planning and Listed Building consents and determine the design of the exterior shell.

The Stroud Preservation Trust has agreed to continue working with architect Nigel Bedford, who has now established an independent practice Attelier 17 based in Bradford on Avon. Nigel studied architecture at the University of Bath, where he now holds a post as a Teaching Fellow. He is currently the Wessex RIBA Regional Councillor. Nigel has worked on a cross section of projects from a £130,000 arts centre to a £45 million regeneration scheme.

His mission is captured in the feasibility study produced for the Brunel Goods Shed project:

It is our belief buildings should properly belong to their surroundings and therefore we use natural materials wherever possible. In particular, architecture should respond to the special nature of individual sites, by maximising natural light and respecting the existing landscape together with the interests of adjacent people and their own buildings. This contexturalism should however be bold, in order that what we produce is architecturally confident… Collectively our task is to find a new architecture which is appropriately contemporary in appearance and derives from innovative solutions to traditional problems.

Brunel Goods Shed Feasibility Study 2007

For further information about the architect please visit the website www.atelier17.co.uk.

Architect's drawings

Architect's drawings

Top of the  Page, left & right – Some of the concept designs created by architect Nigel Bedford for the regeneration of the Brunel Goods Shed. The designs are in progress and have not yet reached the Planning or Listed Building consent stages.