Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre

Jaguar Land Rover’s BREEAM Excellent Engine Manufacturing Centre houses 1400 staff and is comprised of buildings including machine and assembly halls which are flanked by offices, social support spaces and a community educational centre. Large span steel roof framing, supported on columns spaced at 30m intervals, is arranged with an open truss form to give high-level services distribution, a clear hierarchy, modulated to suit the north light architecture. This, incorporated with the sawtooth roof forms, breaks down the massive scale to humanise the production space.