Weald & Downland Living Museum Gateway Buildings, Architect, Photo, Design, Wood Award
Gateway Buildings, Weald & Downland Living Museum
Architecture in South Downs National Park, Sussex, UK – design by ABIR architects
26 Aug 2017
Weald & Downland Living Museum Gateway Buildings
Location: Singleton, nr Chichester, West Sussex, southeast England
Design: ABIR architects
Gateway Buildings, Weald & Downland Living Museum

Photos : Jim Stephenson
Weald & Downland Living Museum boasts a collection of over 50 vernacular buildings spanning 950 years, all rescued from destruction and re-erected in the Grade II* registered South Downs National Park.

ABIR architects were commissioned to design a new 850sqm visitor centre consisting of retail, gallery, café and community spaces.
The design connects the Museum to two new clusters of buildings set either side of a central entrance court forming a transitional gateway.

The buildings are designed to be entirely timber, consisting of two primary elements; Green Oak frame and cross laminated timber (CLT).
Other timber features include hand-cleft English chestnut roofing shakes, sweet chestnut cladding and natural wood-fibre insulation.
Internally, sweet chestnut battens have been used to create the undulating kite roof.

Gateway Buildings, Weald & Downland Living Museum – Building Information
Location: Chichester

Architect: ABIR Architects

Client/Owner: Weald & Downland Living Museu...