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ABIR ArchitectsThe Gateway Project: Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

THE BRIEF : 850msq of built form incorporating:

• Entry, Ticketing & Retail • Three Orientation & Interpretation

Galleries. • Catering facilities with 86no. covers • Community space• Three historic buildings conserved &

interpreted• Improvement & expansion works to

existing car parking areas including accessible parking.

THE VISION : A New Gateway built around the Museum’s millpond encompassing facilities to meet the needs, expectations and experience of the visitors

THE CONCEPT : Farmstead Village Clusters opening views, vistas, & connections into the Museum through, between and within buildings.

3 Components :


The Team:

Nicholas Dexter Studio Landscape Design


Geographical : South Downs National Park

“............undulating chalk slopes and clay-lined valleys which support woodland as well as arable farmland - typical

built form of isolated farmsteads of 18th century origin or younger set within planted parkland...............”


Geographic : Local


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Constraints & Key Barriers

• Site entrance limited size & poorly situated.• Limited orientation, interpretation/wayfinding. • Lack of participation activities.• Inadequate access & circulation for all • Car parking limited - accessibilty and numbers.• No pedestrian separation from vehicles.• Very poor catering offer.

“The Museum is at a tipping point - for it to survive we need to engage the next generation of audiences, volunteers and users; and meet the expectations of today’s communities”... from the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum Forward Plan 2012-16

“..............at the site entrance you are presented with a view of the rear of the

kitchens - there is no physical or intellectual connection with the Museum or

its wonderful collection of buildings........”


Advanced timber engineeringContextual material palette

Traditional timber boardingTraditional timber framing

Site Context & Design Intent

Design Intent...........(neither)

A transitional Gateway connecting the 21st century to the collection.

Simple and beautiful buildings bringing together contemporary detailing and traditional materials -green oak, hand made clay tiles, chestnut shakes, natu-ral timber boarding and zinc.

Two clusters of buildings set around a central meeting place linking with a number of other ex-ternal spaces for visitors to ex-perience connections and views to the museum and its collection.

Improvement works to the exist-ing car parking areas including safe access and approach and dedicated fully accessible parking.

Pastiche or Stark White Box ?


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Site Plan

Gridshell

Millpond

Museum MainEntrance

The Gateway

Car Parking

Market Square

Existing MuseumEntry

Car Parking

Car Parking

New Road

safe path


Plan

Gallery 3

Gallery 2

Entrance

Retail

Tickets

CommunityCafe 2Cafe 1

Kitchens

South Cluster :

Entry/Ticketing/Retail/Galleries

North Cluster :

Cafe/Community/Kitchens/Toilets/Plant

Millpond

Open Court

Gallery 1

Servery


View of south clusterView of south clusterView of cafe elements

Elevational studies

Model Development 1:100 FRAME & PLANE

View Looking East from Millpond

View Looking West from Entry Gate


FRAME : Timber Frame Analysis

ABIR Gateway Anchor Building

Frame Bay Study Collection Building

Frame Bay Study


View of north frameView of south frame

Sectional view of south frame

Timber Frame Model Development 1:50 scale

Design Exploration of the Frame : Aesthetics & Structural Integrity


Ridge connectionEaves portal connectionEaves brace connection

Foot connectionFrame detail sections

Green Oak Timber Frame : Detail DevelopmentComponents, Connections & Junctions : Timber and Stainless Steel


Green Oak Timber Frame : Physical Development

Carpenters Marks

5-Way Junction at Eaves

Slotted Structural JunctionVertical Frame Elements

Table Scarfed Joints to Ridge & Eaves Members

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PLANE : The Galleries and Cafe : Cross Laminated Timber

Temporary propping and black UV protection

Site Erection Piece by Piece162mm Thick 5 Lamella Panels Produced from kiln-dried finger-jointed spruce

Visual connections between volumes


Sweet Chestnut boardingBlack zinc: standing seamFair-faced concrete

Wealden clay roofing tilesSweet Chestnut roofing shakes

External Materials


Split logs

Felled timber

Prickly Nut Wood Finished shakes in storage

Sweet Chestnut Roofing Shakes: Locally Sourced at Prickly Nut Wood, Hand Cleft


Entry, Ticketing & Retail South Anchor : Frame & Plane

Internal Perspective looking East towards Cash Desk

Elevation of ‘Kite’ Ceiling to Entry Anchor


Existing & Mid-Construction View looking East over Millpond

ABIR Architects & Pilbeam Construction Completion March 2017

The Gateway Project: Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Existing & mid-construction view south local to Market Square

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