This project seeks to revitalise a neglected and disused area, formally known as contractor’s yard, to create a sustainable hub that encourages the sharing of knowledge through events, conferences, workshops and talks for Highgate and the wider context. The proposal consists of a series of lightweight timber pavilions that will host a range of activities that include a food preparation space, seminar space, contemplation space, workshop, seed depository and a washroom. Inspired by the everyday relationships to landscape evident in the interlocking of land use practices, spatial strategies and built structures in agricultural vernacular settlements, each pavilion responds to the topography and setting of the site, and each one is positioned to create an ensemble that allows for views through and across the surrounding landscape placing particular emphasis on the space between them which becomes as important as the building themselves.

Stage: Construction
Type: Cultural 
Location: Highgate, London, UK

Selected publications: Architects Journal