Windermere Steamboat Museum, Lake District
Windermere Steamboat Museum Cumbria, Lake District Architecture Competition, Cafe, Architects
Windermere Steamboat Museum Building
Lake District Building Development, Cumbria, Northwest England design by Carmody Groarke, UK
post updated 16 September 2021
Windermere Steamboat Museum shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2021
Stirling Prize
photo © Hufton – Crow
Jury Report
Nestling into the eastern shore of Lake Windermere, the Jetty Museum creates a compelling composition of vernacular forms which achieves an unusual reconciliation of the reassuringly familiar with the strikingly contemporary. When seen from the lake its dark shed-like buildings are embedded in the wooded hillside behind, but on arrival the Museum exudes the confident identity of a major cultural institution.
photo © Johan Dehlin
The cluster of pitched-roof forms successfully breaks down the large scale of the museum, integrating it into its landscape setting. This seemingly picturesque arrangement derives its layout from functional requirements whilst carefully framing views of the lake. It is these views, and the experience of the water, which become the main protagonist in the considered and choreographed sequence of the visitors? route, with the building successfully blurring boundaries between climate-controlled galleries, workshops, the wet dock and the lake itself. Learning from older Lakeland buildings, the provision of deeply overhanging eaves creates external rooms, sheltering visitors ...
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