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BIG PICTURE Blending in with the natural world Image: David Jensen PROJECT: Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre LOCATION: London, UK ARCHITECTS: Haworth Tompkins Architects MASS TIMBER CONSTRUCTION: Eurban PHOTOGRAPHY: Haworth Tompkins TEXT: PEFC Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London, UK has used cross-laminated timber (CLT) certified by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) to provide a stunning series of sustainable buildings. Opened in the 1930s, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre undertook a redevelopment project in 2012, using CLT for a series of buildings designed by Haworth Tompkins Architects and erected by Eurban. A new backstage area was built, comprising an office block, dressing rooms, wardrobe area and workshops. At the front of the building, there was a new box office and sheltered seating canopy. In 2018, Reed Watts Architects brought Eurban back onboard to deliver a new two-storey building located in a very sensitive site within the royal park and conservation area. The new building provides 480m 2 of rehearsal, catering and administration space. The specification of solid timber as the superstructure is a key part of the success of the design. CLT was specified not only for its wider environmental credentials, its aesthetic potential and its light weight, but also for its speed of 18 WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE • ISSUE 2 – <strong>2023</strong>
BIG PICTURE 1 2 1 A language of planted trellises and woven hazel facades was used to merge architecture and natural landscape into a single, seamless environment 2 CLT was specified for its wider environmental credentials, aesthetic potential, light weight, and its speed of assembly 3 The new box office Images: Philip Vile 3 assembly. Using CLT allowed for construction within the six-month window between theatre seasons. Aesthetically, a language of planted trellises and woven hazel facades was used to merge architecture and natural landscape into a single, seamless environment, according to the architects. “Using a combination of unfinished and dark-stained larch for the external skins, the structures are already growing back into the landscape that envelops them,” said Haworth Tompkins Architects. “Throughout this long working relationship with successive artistic directors, the aim has been to support the growing theatrical capacity of the organisation while preserving the magical sense of entering a secret world at the centre of the London’s most elegant park.” A SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD The CLT was manufactured in Austria by wood products manufacturer Stora Enso using spruce grown in sustainably managed forests. The glue-laminated timber (glulam) was manufactured by wood products supplier Pabst in a factory located close to Stora Enso. All the material used was certified by the PEFC, and a total of 130m 3 of solid timber was used in the walls, floors and roof of the building. According to PEFC, it takes seven minutes for this volume of timber to be replenished by the sustainably managed Austrian forests. Ninety-five tonnes of CO2 were removed from the atmosphere when the trees were growing and will be stored in the structure over its lifetime. For the duration of the assembly of the solid timber structure, a crane was used to offload and distribute the materials around the site. CLT and glulam were offloaded directly from lorries into position. With fewer deliveries coming to site there is improved safety at the site access as well as reduced pollution in the surrounding roads, further proof of the benefits of this offsite method of construction. WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE • ISSUE 2– <strong>2023</strong> 19
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