Stability in Every Detail
Every year, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) honors the best projects implemented in the UK, both at the regional and national levels. Amongst them also were projects that were awarded for sustainability, and we will consider them in this article. These are objects of various functional purposes and scale, but they all meet the most stringent criteria in terms of energy efficiency, light and comfortable environment. Four of them were awarded the RIBA National Award, and the Community Center and the Story Field Kindergarten were also nominated for the Stirling Award for outstanding achievements in architecture.
FILL LIFE WITH JOY
Storey’s Field Community Centre and Nursery – it is the very highest quality architecture. It shows how an architect can add joy, an enhanced experience of materials and human dimension to every part of a building. A breath-taking building, commissioned by the University, for the new community of North-West Cambridge. Inspired by the college cloisters and courts of the City, this project has a sustainability agenda at its core. It is no coincidence that the authoritative jury included it in the shortlist of RIBA Stirling Prize 2018, the highest architectural accolade in the UK.
The spaces in the nursery are worthy of a much more sophisticated audience but are always based around the scale and activities in each space. Where small windows are needed, they are arranged in the pattern of constellations of stars (even with the correct orientation), where a decorative circular window from the enclosed garden is made out of a ventilation inlet grille, it is evidence of the skill, imagination and continuous attention to detail of the architect. This is a truly well-crafted building, where material or technology is only used where it is needed.
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