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Sands End Arts & Community Centre in Fulham
25 Feb 2021
Sands End Arts & Community Centre
Architect: Mae
Location: Fulham, London, England, UK

Enhancing the social and leisure offer in the local area, Mæ?s completion of the Sands End Arts & Community Centre in Fulham will be a welcome addition for the local community. Sited beside the Clancarty Lodge in the north western corner of South Park, the centre caters to a wide range of users; providing a café alongside spaces for social and educational functions, clubs and events. With a view to ensuring long term viability, dedicated nursery facilities have also been included in the scheme.
Hammersmith and Fulham?s ambitious brief sought to deliver community facilities that promoted social integration within the community. Mæ have delivered on the council?s aspirations, with a building that blends together several programmatic elements within a highly sustainable shell. Over 35% of the building material is composed of recycled materials, with a responsibly sourced CLT timber structure which has inherently low embodied energy values. Recyclable construction materials have also been considered by Mæ: for instance the use of bolts over glue as a structural fixing to allow for ease of disassembly.

The building?s brick skin has been supplied by specialist supplier ?StoneCycling?, which has allowed Mæ?s des...