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An integrated design: the Jersey Archive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2002

David Prichard
Affiliation:
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, 9 Heneage Street, Spitalfields, London E1 5LJ, United Kingdom; david.prichard@mjparchitects.co.uk
Chris Twinn
Affiliation:
Arup, 13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ, United Kingdom; chris.twinn@arup.com

Abstract

The new Jersey Archive is superbly designed and beautifully crafted. It is also one of the largest repositories in the world to use a passive environmental control system. Here, one of the architects, David Prichard, describes the design and its development and the services engineer, Chris Twinn, concludes with an account of the physics behind the building design.

Type
design
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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