Heatherwick Studio creates “kinetic glasshouse”
Heatherwick Studio has designed a pyramidal glasshouse with unfolding “sepals” for Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex.
Commissioned for a spot in the 26-acre gardens of the National Trust’s Woolbeding Estate, the Kinetic Glasshouse by Thomas Heatherwick’s studio contains sub-tropical flora and is one of twelve zones with a new garden that celebrate the influence of the Silk Road on British gardens – sharing the story of specieis that traveled along the Silk Route from China to the Mediterranean.
The pyramidal glasshouse has 10 steel-framed “sepals” that splay open in pinwheel formation for ventilation.
The £5.8 million project is funded by the late Simon Sainsbury and his partner Stewart Grimshaw, who leased Woolbeding Estate from the National Trust since 1972 and brought on designers Lanning Roper, and Julian and Isabel Bannerman to shape the gardens. It is the final project to be funded by The Monument Trust – set up by Sainsbury in 1965 and closed in 2018 – which donated over £20 million to the National Trust for restoration of its houses, collections and grounds. A legacy grant of £11 million is covering the cost of creation and maintenance of the new Silk Route garden at the estate.
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Credits
Designer
Heatherwick Studio
Civil and structural engineer
Eckersley O’Callaghan
Consultant environmental engineer
Atelier Ten
Landscape architects
MRG Studio
Builder
R W Armstrong
Technical design and construction
Bellapart
Project manager
Stuart A Johnson Consulting
Jessica Mairs2022-06-28T16:42:10+01:00
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Source: Architecture Today