Icons from Britain's historic Ordnance Survey maps are reinterpreted as colourful architectural elements in this pavilion designed by Studio Mutt for England's Lake District National Park.

The studio founded by Graham Burn, James Crawford and Alex Turner, developed the proposal in response to an open call organised by Lakes Culture, the body responsible for promoting tourism and cultural activities in the area.
As part of the Lakes Ignite 2018 initiative, the organisation called for projects that celebrate the Lake District as a "cultural landscape". Studio Mutt's response references how people have historically interacted with the landscape, both culturally and physically.

The main point of departure for the project was the Ordnance Survey maps, which have provided detailed information about the topography, buildings and roads of Great Britain since 1745. The iconic and prosaically functional maps feature symbols, colours and design details that are a familiar part of Britain's cultural heritage.

Mutt Studio wanted to translate some of these elements into a structure that celebrates the role the maps have played in enhancing the British population's interaction with the landscape.
"The idea was to not only create an assemblage of OS references but to also create an intriguing and characterful structure which sat boldly in the landscape," said the architects, "with a presence similar to a small isolated chapel ? stranded within the vast rugged la...