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Great Fen Visitor Centre (Proposal)
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A competition entry for the design of a visitor centre located in the heart of the Fenlands.
Our proposal for the Great Fen Visitor Centre was centred around the idea of a space to gather yourself before a trip into the fens, a space to relax in after a walk, a space to enjoy the views. The visitor centre would have become an integral part of the “journey” into and out of the fens and wider landscape.
The visitor centre was organised and designed around the environment in which it would sit. The proposed building connects with the landscape both visually and physically, creating a series of spaces that both delight and entice visitors to the fens.
The buildings position in the landscape aims to create sheltered spaces, like the newly formed courtyard area (between the existing barn and new centre), with trees to the west and east offering protection from the wind, whilst also projecting views out onto the newly created fenland to the south of the building.
The proposed building sits in the landscape as a “cluster” of buildings reminiscent of typical agricultural buildings, creating the appearance of a series of smaller buildings rather than one large building. The varied timber cladding is playful, warm and tactile and helps to break down the buildings overall massing whilst sitting comfortably in the landscape. The timber cladding is in keeping with the tones, textures and colours of the fenlands. The timber boards reflect the “lines” found in the landscape with the cladding being fixed vertically on the elevations which face the wooded areas to the east and west to reflect the verticality of the trees and fixed horizontally on the facades facing onto the wide flat fenland, this in turn reflects the flat terrain whilst also visually reducing the perceived mass of the building.
A key concept for the visitor centres plan and internal arrangement of rooms was to create views through the building at key points to create a sense of journey both through the building and the wider landscape. We wanted the building to be an instrument on the landscape that frames and focuses the landscape beyond.
Our proposal for the Great Fen Visitor Centre was centred around the idea of a space to gather yourself before a trip into the fens, a space to relax in after a walk, a space to enjoy the views. The visitor centre would have become an integral part of the “journey” into and out of the fens and wider landscape.
The visitor centre was organised and designed around the environment in which it would sit. The proposed building connects with the landscape both visually and physically, creating a series of spaces that both delight and entice visitors to the fens.
The buildings position in the landscape aims to create sheltered spaces, like the newly formed courtyard area (between the existing barn and new centre), with trees to the west and east offering protection from the wind, whilst also projecting views out onto the newly created fenland to the south of the building.
The proposed building sits in the landscape as a “cluster” of buildings reminiscent of typical agricultural buildings, creating the appearance of a series of smaller buildings rather than one large building. The varied timber cladding is playful, warm and tactile and helps to break down the buildings overall massing whilst sitting comfortably in the landscape. The timber cladding is in keeping with the tones, textures and colours of the fenlands. The timber boards reflect the “lines” found in the landscape with the cladding being fixed vertically on the elevations which face the wooded areas to the east and west to reflect the verticality of the trees and fixed horizontally on the facades facing onto the wide flat fenland, this in turn reflects the flat terrain whilst also visually reducing the perceived mass of the building.
A key concept for the visitor centres plan and internal arrangement of rooms was to create views through the building at key points to create a sense of journey both through the building and the wider landscape. We wanted the building to be an instrument on the landscape that frames and focuses the landscape beyond.
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