Design
An aerial precedent for low-profile timber and glasshouse campus architecture integrated sensitively within a heavy woodland setting.
- What we like about this project
- Roof lights seamlessly integrate pitched timber sheds with a vast industrial glasshouse structure behind.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- brick
- metal-roofing
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- greenhouse-roof
- woodland-setting
- pitched-roof
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- contextual
- timber-architecture
Visual tags
- botanical
- educational
- rural-context
- timber
- sustainable
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear volumes with pitched and shed roofs, nested amid mature trees and connected greenhouse structures.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber batten cladding over lower brick base with punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with masonry ground floor foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story agricultural/educational scale, low-profile against tall mature trees.
- Lighting
- Soft dusk light under a pale pink and grey sky, with interior lights casting a gentle glow through windows and roof glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, secluded twilight atmosphere framed by silhouettes of evergreen trees and soft architectural lighting.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a dense, mature woodland and tree canopy edge, providing a secluded rural or botanical garden setting.
- Spatial experience
- The campus reads as an integrated cluster of working and research buildings nestled low within a lush arboreal clearing.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal timber boards alternate rhythmically with regular punched windows across the primary facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable educational architecture
- Program
- Botanical research or educational facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, brick, metal-roofing
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, greenhouse-roof, woodland-setting, pitched-roof
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, contextual, timber-architecture
- Visual tags
- botanical, educational, rural-context, timber, sustainable, low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear volumes with pitched and shed roofs, nested amid mature trees and connected greenhouse structures.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber batten cladding over lower brick base with punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with masonry ground floor foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story agricultural/educational scale, low-profile against tall mature trees.
- Lighting
- Soft dusk light under a pale pink and grey sky, with interior lights casting a gentle glow through windows and roof glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, secluded twilight atmosphere framed by silhouettes of evergreen trees and soft architectural lighting.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a dense, mature woodland and tree canopy edge, providing a secluded rural or botanical garden setting.
- Spatial experience
- The campus reads as an integrated cluster of working and research buildings nestled low within a lush arboreal clearing.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal timber boards alternate rhythmically with regular punched windows across the primary facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable educational architecture
- Program
- Botanical research or educational facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture