Illustrated examples of background experience

Relevant Experience

James Burland (BSc BArch (Bath), Mst IDBE Cantab) is providing past and current  design experience for a diverse range of building projects  (some illustrated above).

Arena Design
Low budget  Arenas
Multi-purpose Arenas
Arenas for small scale sports attracting large audiences
Hybrid arenas designed for 2 way interactive broadcasts

Film Studio site-planning and building concepts
Enhancement of existing studios
Studio community planning
Studio Buildings

Houses
Homes in coastal settings
Holiday homes
​Traditional houses
One room living
Live work housing
Renovation planning for houses
Subdivision planning applications

Housing
System built housing
Inner city housing
Apartment buildings

Hospital planning
Planning for enhanced public interaction 

​Schools
Planning for enhanced internal and external environments for all participants for all types of schools

Student Accommodation
Countryside development locations
Inner city high density schemes

​Stadium Design
Olympic Stadia
Post-Olympic Stadia
Football Stadia

Archictectural input within engineering and environmentally led interdisciplinary design teams
​Terrell Ltd - various projects
Virtual Audience Acoustic Reality Ltd - online 2 way live music
Ove Arup and Partners
(Mostly stadium design work between 1990 and 2000 when empoyed by Arup Associates then as freelance up to 2010 - locations include London, Manchester, Sheffield, Milan, Johannesburg, Capetown, Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York)
Studio Egret West - Cambridge United relocation

​​Burland is is an architectural consultant with a background in interdisciplinary design. In 2018 Burland qualified with a masters degree in interdisciplinary design for the built environment,  The University of Cambridge. He is putting the results of his studies into practice in a new conceptual approach to architecture through atmosphere design - Burland Aura Planning.

This website is a holding page while BurlandAuraPlanning.com is under construction. The site is awaiting evidence from trial projects that are currently in progress. Meanwhile, a short description of Aura Planning:
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Burland Aura Planning finds descriptors to assist an interdisciplinary design team in creating a built environment able to support the atmospheres that its activators, designers and users want.

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Chronology of Design Experience

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​​2018 - Present: Burland Aura Planning

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Aura Planning + design studies for large scale projects

• Debenhams, Guildford
• Aura planning inputs for VAAR Ltd, Virtual Audience Acoustics Reality, an Innovate UK Grant funded collaboration with Vanguardia, Sustainable Acoustics and Clarke Saunders

Photo by Anna Kunst

‘Debaura’ - Aura-planning case study of Debenhams, Guildford. This is currently in progress and will be revealed when the new website is launched.

Soundscape visually represented of an online Stadium capacity of 1 million for a football derby.

​ ​Aura planning  design studies for houses

• House, Cranleigh
• Kit house, Pineglade, Godalming
• Courtyard houses, Station Wharf, Bramley
• Pool House, Eashing​

Aura Planning Study for a family in Surrey. Descriptors were found that reflected the feelings shared about the house and how it could be extended.

Aura-planning in progress with this illustrative sketch of how the descriptors could be interpreted.

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• House, Primrose Ridge, Godalming
• House, Rowly
• House, Seaford​
• House, Bishopstone​

Conversion of a seaside bungalow for home working. The long garden looks out to sea and Newhaven dock.

​2016 - 2018: Masters Degree: Mst IDBE (Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment), University of Cambridge

Written studies:

• Atmosphere design and Post-Olympic Stadiums
• Saracens Interview, Case Study
• Sightline Design and Match Day Atmosphere in Super-Stadia,

Illustration from essay: “Sightlines and Atmosphere”

Studio Group Projects (set over a few days in each residential week of the part-time degree course). Group skill-sets varied each time -  combinations of professionals including engineers, design managers, building regulations officers, project managers and  architects . Teams were encouraged to take risks, the main purpose was to put interdisciplinary working methods into practice.

• Cycling and Pedestrian Bridge over the River Cam
• Smithfield Market redevelopment
• North Cambridge Campus Engineering Faculty, building study
• Zero Carbon house
• Grenfell Tower Redevelopment​

Group project: study for a new department of engineering on the North Cambridge Campus. The towers house an energy storage system using weights that are winched up by solar and wind power.

Atmosphere, ethos and geometry in post-olympic stadia

Group Project: Low Carbon House

Sketch model of a Grenfell Tower redevelopment. Services and circulation shafts support permanent sprinkler and water conservation tanks - pedestrian and electric tram ramps wrap around the towers to which prefabricated living pods are plugged in - the pods are combined to form different sizes of accommodation and tenure.

​​2010 - 2020: Architectural Consultancy Work

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Architectural Consultant to The Terrell Group

• Multi-Use Building,  Hendon
• Houses at Maybanks, Rudgewick
• Lifetime homes, sun and wind powered housing
• Housing system, Newcastle ​

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• Tintagel Bridge Competition
• Offices, Bristol
• Leisure Buildings, Slough
• Leisure Complex,  United Arab Emirates
• House at Sea Lane, Middleton on Sea (for new owner)

​​Planning Application Design Work

• Design for site subdivision for a second house at Sea Lane, Middleton on Sea
• Agricultural barns, Eashing

​Stadium Consultancy Work

• Cambridge United Stadium redevelopment (Stadium design consultant to Egret West Architects)
• Debreceni V.S.C. Football Stadium (stadium consultant in early stages of the project)
• S.S.C. Napoli relocation, stadium consultant to Arup (Milan office)

​Design Initiatives

• Study for the proposed expansion of Manchester City Stadium from the perspective of its design author
• Mezzegra live-work housing design pattern, Lake Como
• Football Club summer school, Griante, Lake Como
• Design School and Conference Centre, Griante, Lake Como

Sketch of the approach to The Ethihad. The stadium was designed to look complete from key viewpoints whilst it functioned with a temporary seating stand at one end to make room for the athletics track. It’s final form looked complete but there is a fault line left from the change to its premier division after the 2002 commonwealth games. This could be exploited to make a clear contrast in the roof line allowing the original form to look complete and the new stand to stand alone in a complementary way, leaving the implied complete form of the original stadium. This articulation of old and new can be seen in construction photos before the two rooflines were connected in one smoothed out wave.

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Old Warehouse conversion: A proposal for reusing a small dis-used warehouse and workshop embedded in the heart of the historic centre of Griante, Lake Como. Planning Law allows for sleeping accommodation as part of a “Hobby House” in this design for one room per floor connected by ladder stairs. Workshop in the cantina, kitchen area above a rest area above that under the roof.

​2000 - 2010: Burland TM Architects

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• 33-35 Commercial Road Student Housing and Brewery Building redevelopment (Design for the granted planning permission only - as constructed: HKR Architects)
• 14 Fieldgate Street Student Housing, Flats and Supermarket (Design for the granted planning permission only - as constructed: Axis Architects )​

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• Bristol Arena, Bristol Temple Meads, masterplanning and low cost arena design options
• Ideas for a demountable and relocatable athletics stadium superstructure for the London 2012 Olympic bid
• Cardiff Sports Village Masterplan Studies
• Cardiff Indoor Ski Centre Design Studies​

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• Pinewood Film Studio (masterplanning for granted planning permissions)
• Shepperton Film Studios (masterplanning for granted planning permissions)
• Shepperton Studios Buildings (design studies)
• Gainsbough Building, Shepperton Studios

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• Pinewood "007" Stage design for replacement after fire damage (for the granted planning permission only - Constructed design: Foster Willis Architects)
• 'Project Pinewood' Masterplan for housing in a permenant backlot of various film locations (redesigned and submitted for planning by Arup Associates)
• Pinewood Entrance Security Building
• ​Ealing Film Studios, Masterplanning and phase one buildings

• Pinewood Entrance Security Building

• Portable Olympic Stadium​
• Bristol Arena
• Tamale Stadium
• The Billiardrome 

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• Falcon Wharf Apartments and Hotel, Wandsworth (design for the first and second planning consent. Final design as constructed: Broadway Malyan Architects)
• Petworth Street School redevelopment, Wandsworth, design for developr's bid


• 1 Gun Street Offices (design for the first planning permission granted. Final design as student housing: T.P. Bennett Architects)
• Porthmeor Beach Huts Housing (early design studies)
• House on Zakynthos (Figari)
• International Athletics Stadium, Picketts Lock, East London
  

​​2000 – 2002: Architectural Consultant, Arup

• Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Stadium, pre-construction phase

​​​1993 - 1999: Head Architect, Arup Associates, and Conceptual Design Architect for

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• Arup Campus Building, Solihul
• BP Solar Showcase, for the 1998 Birmingham G8 Summit
• Plantation Place, City of London (first scheme)
• Appartment Building, Queens town Road , Wandsworth
• British Telecom Offices, Brentwood
• Stockley park, Heathrow Phase Two Buildings

• Johannessburg Athletics Stadium
• Capetown 2004 Olympic Bid stadium and arena masterplanning and design concepts
• Glasgow Arena (the 1996 design for Glasgow City Council Parks Department)
• Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Stadium and legacy concept for the conversion for a football legacy
• City of Manchester Stadium design for the 'Wembley of the North' competition

​1990 - 1993: Project Architect , Arup Associates, conceptual design architect

• Durham new college (now known as Ustinov College)
• Manchester 2000 Olympic Bid main Stadium and all later versions of the design and the built scheme prior to its recent extension
• Berlin 2000 Olympic Arena
• Genshagen Business Park, East Berlin
• HMRC Offices Competition, Nottingham

​1986 - 1990:  Project Architect, Philip Cox Richardson Taylor (now Cox Architects)

• 2000 Sydney Olympic Bid  Stadium and Masterplan, Homebush, Sydney, New South Wales
• Clare Street Hotel, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales
• Coopers Park Apartments, Sydney, New South Wales
• Cypress Lakes Golfing Resort, Pokolbin, New South Wales
• Remuera Sheltered Housing, Aukland, New Zealand
• Birchgrove Road Housing, Balmain, New South Wales
• Sydney International Athletics Stadium, Lidcombe Oval, Sydney, New South Wales

​1980 - 1986: Project Architect, Arup Associates

• Stockley Park Heathrow Phase One Buildings: conceptual, detail design, site Architect and assistant masterplanner
• Bedford High School, Junior School and Sixthform college, assistant conceptual design Architect, detail design and site Architect
• Eton College Science Laboratories, assistant Architect and detail design of external screens

​1978 - 1979: Student Placement, Arup Associates

• IBM Havant Office Building Courtyard assistant design Architect and assistant site architect

​1973 - 1980: University of Bath School of Architecture and Engineering

• BArch Group Urban degree project: Unvisersity of Bath Masterplan and Buildings on Stothert and Pitt/Green Park Station Land 
• BSc Architectural Studies degree project: Turner Gallery in Covent Garden

 
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