The Welcome Building RHS Garden Bridgewater. Worsley Building, Manchester, Northwest English Architecture
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater Manchester
24 May 2022
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater is 2022 RIBA Northwest Building of the Year
photo © Peter Cook
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater – 2022 RIBA Northwest Awards Winner
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater by Hodder + Partners has been announced as the 2022 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Northwest Building of the Year.
The Welcome Building at RHS Garden Bridgewater is a sustainable, engaging, and considered ‘public pavilion’ which has been designed and delivered to house all amenities for visitors to RHS Garden Bridgewater. From an invited competition, the local community has been consulted in creating a much-loved local asset where visitor numbers have far surpassed expectations through a combination of tourism and community visits.
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Address: Occupation Rd, Worsley, Manchester M28 2LJ
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater, Salford, Northwest England, UK
6 projects have been awarded RIBA Northwest Awards.
Design: Hodder and Partners
photo © Peter Cook
The Welcome Building at RHS Garden Bridgewater
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A sustainable, engaging and considered ‘public pavilion’ has been designed and delivered in order to house all amenities for visitors to RHS Garden Bridgewater. From an invited competition, the local community have been consulted in creating a much-loved local asset where visitor numbers have far surpassed expectations through a combination of tourism and community visits.
The Welcome Building embraces environmental considerations with ground source heat pumps providing 80% of requirements. Rainwater harvesting, natural cross ventilation and green roofs are also major contributors to the life cycle strategy. The design is highly sustainable and appropriate to context.
photo © Peter Cook
The main building is conceived as a rhythm of tree structures supporting an overarching timber diagrid and accommodates visitor reception, seasonal sales floor, café and garden centre with ‘pods’ providing office, wc’s and kitchen areas. The flexibility of the design allows pods to be dismantled without disturbing the main shell. The main body of the building can also be extended in the future as groundworks have been constructed in order to extend the frame.
Clad in treated larch but with large areas of glazing/a central roof light, the resultant building creates an uplifting space as visitors arrive and leave the gardens. The extension of the canopy beyond the thermal line at each end blurs interior and exterior and either frames views to the gardens or extends the nursery sales area. The treatment of elevations along the length of the structure establishes outdoor areas for dining or private areas for educational rooms.
Although a large uplifting volume, the horizontal nature of the building is read as a dramatic yet sensitive installation in the landscape from various ‘moments’ within the gardens. This project re-purposes the 156 acre Worsley New Hall Estate through collaboration of RHS, Salford City Council and Peel Land & Property. With landscape renewal and sustainability at its heart, the project embodies post-pandemic offerings for social engagement and wellbeing through an intelligently delivered solution to amenity.
photo © Peter Cook
RIBA region: Northwest
Architect practice: Hodder and Partners
Date of completion: Jul 2020
Date of occupation: Jul 2020
Client company name: The Royal Horticultural Society
Project city/town: Salford
Contract value: Confidential
Gross internal area: 2,374.00 m²
Net internal area: 2,158.00 m²
Cost per m²: Confidential
Contractor company name: BAM Construct UK
photo © Peter Cook
Consultants
Structural Engineers: RoC Consulting
Environmental / M&E Engineers: Hoare Lea
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant: Arcadis
Project Management: Arcadis
Landscape Architects: Tom Stuart-Smith
Awards
• RIBA Regional Award
• Regional/RSAW Sustainability award
• Regional Award Short List
2022 RIBA Northwest Awards Winners
2022 RIBA Northwest Awards Winners
The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater – RIBA Northwest Awards Shortlist 2022 images / information received 270422
Phone: 0161 503 6100
Location: Occupation Rd, Worsley, Manchester, M28 2LJ, Northwest England, UK
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