Grove Business Park - Phase One

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The first stage of Oxford University Endowment Management’s masterplan for Grove Business Park, ‘Phase One’, seeks to establish a vibrant, modern-day, sustainable campus environment for the future.

 The initial scheme delivers two ‘Tech Box’ style buildings and one ‘Hybrid’ building at the north end of the park, offering a total of 10 tenancies, in suites ranging from 7,220 sqft to 14,443 sqft.

 The design targets the mid-tech R&D market and provides adaptable workspaces for innovative science, office, and technology occupiers.

Design and Typologies

The building typologies provide variety within Use Class E and can be summarized as follows:

Tech Boxes: Two storey, with deep-plan and double-height warehouse space, equipped with vehicle access doors, Cat A mezzanines and high-quality entrance cores.

Hybrid Building: A more traditional office building typology, with smaller suite sizes and shared core facilities. The ground floor units benefit from enhanced storey height and vehicle access doors. An accessible flat roof is available for tenants to install their own specialist plant, if required.

Architecture & Materiality

A unified design language will integrate the development into its rural setting with a warm palette of materials of natural tones. Windows are oriented vertically, with crisp feature reveals; their arrangement breaks up the buildings' visual mass.  The building typologies have their own identities: the hybrid building is clad in textured brick, while the tech boxes adopt dark brown metal and timber cladding.