Manor Works

Innovative managed work space for local start-up businesses alongside shared resources for local residents.

Manor Works combines a new build community enterprise, workshops, studios, and office spaces, alongside shared communal facilities, and supporting the wider agenda by using the development to address local issues of safety and security within the urban design and new external public spaces.

Funded through the LEGI framework, the building navigates a complex topography and planning constraints to provide welcoming facilities along an active public facade together with secure & affordable managed enterprise spaces. The project brings together combined opportunities in enterprise, community use and managed green space to deliver much needed public value for the residents of the Manor.

Architecture 00
Momentum Engineering
SEED Landscape Design

Location: Sheffield, UK
Client: Manor Development Company

Programme: June 2012 - February 2014
Cost: £1350/sqm
Floor area: 2000sqm
EPC Rating: A
BREEAM: Very Good

Awards

RIBA Yorkshire Building of the Year Award 2014
RIBA National Award 2014

Press

Manor Works in Dezeen

Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability

Manor Works achieves very high standards in sustainability, including a BREEAM very good rating (with a score of 67 points), an EPC A-rating, and provides 20% on-site renewable energy generation via a biomass boiler.

Not just an exemplar of environmental sustainability, economic and social sustainability are at the core of Manor Works, which provides innovative managed workspaces for local start-up businesses alongside shared resources for local residents – a community workshop, digital media centre and multi-purpose hall that opens onto a new publicly inhabitable landscape, providing an affordable, sociable environment for new enterprise growth. The project innovates in the provision of flexible workshop space to cater for the beneficial growth in vocational work.

A multi-use ‘neighbourhood space’ enables local community involvement and extends the building’s use outside of business hours.