British studios Hug broton architects A wooden enclosure made of interlocking is completed A type of tree Slats to screen a pump house for West London Keve garden,
The designated kev pumping station, the composition of oval shape sits above an underground tank, which has a storage of 280,000 liters of water, which is built as part of a new irrigation strategy at the Royal Botanical Garden in Richmond.
The pump house will ensure that the world famous horticulture institution in the irrigation network is a constant reliable “heartbeat” to keep gardens prosperous, home to over 40,000 living plants.
Pump house is visible from both a public pavement and architect Marx Barfield’s high tree-top walkwayAn attraction that was opened in 2008, designed by enclosure Hug broton architects To hide your machinery and add visual interest to the site.
Project architect Steve McCoy told Decayn, “The design was to be functionally efficient, economically designed and, as a piece of small architecture, to get the quality of sensitivity and design to get the quality of its famous beautiful surroundings Was.”
The studio solution was to wrap the pump box in a Philigry Timber screen, which was tilted to soften its mass in gardens and reflect sunlight. The wood will slowly be at the age of silver over time.
The size of the kev pumping station began with a fallen leaf idea before developing to take various vegetation forms.
“The side height of the enclosure, which is made of an array of interlocking self-similer timber module, recalls the pam fragments that are brilliantly displayed in the most reputable glasshouse of the Kev,” McCoy said.
Hug Borton Architects designed the off-site by the manufacturer as “kit-off-parts” steel and larch enclosure City axis And wood experts ZilotechIt allows it to install it quickly in a few weeks in the last summer.
The gardens first depended on the main water, inspiring the need for a new irrigation strategy, was developed by the design team in collaboration with horticulture and capital project teams at Kev Garden.
As part of this new strategy, the Kev pumping station was moved from its rear place to a back-off-house yard area a short distance from the tank, after repeated problems and breakdowns with the machinery. It is now located directly above the water tank.
Completing the project, Botanical Horticulture experts at Kev Garden have made a wildflower meadow to surround the structure. This is expected to add color to the site and in turn, promotes biodiversity.
The horticulture team is also developing ways to maintain plants in gardens in front of climate change. According to the director of Garden Richard Barley, the new pump house symbolizes “important steps ahead” in the development of its irrigation infrastructure.
He said, “Having a reliable and efficient pumping system to distribute the water stored in our underground tank is an essential element for our landscape flexibility,” he said.
Along with Kev Pumping Station, other recent projects in Kev Garden are included Queue nature exhibitionWhich was held at its Victorian Glasshouse.
Somewhere else, Temperturus Extrimus recently completed a tree -like water tower that provides shelter for nesting birds in Luxembourg And CF Moller created a flood-defense system that doubles as a nature park in Denmark,
Is by photography Dirk Lindner,
