Beorma Quarter

This Birmigham site in Digbeth is adjacent to the Bullring, St Martins Church and Future Systems’ Selfridges building, and contains the city’s last surviving medieval property lines – long thin plots known as Burgage Plots. Also on the site are traces of the water ditch – Hersum ditch – that separated the medieval village from the original deer park. The scheme pays tribute to this history by expressing these original Burgage plots and Hersum ditch in the forms of the buildings, with the tower form created by extruding the Burgage plots skywards creating a fragmented and layered volume. This £130m scheme was the largest the practice had ever undertaken and I worked with the project architect during the lengthy planning and consultation process, ultimately becoming responsible for the coordination and submission of the final planning application. In addition to developing the BIM models of the various components of the scheme, I liaised directly with professional model makers and generated a number of walkthroughs and flythroughs of the digital model, for both client and local stakeholders.