The Core at the Eden Project
Education Facilities under a timber canopy
Project Location: Cornwall, UK
Client: The Eden Project Ltd
Size: 3,500m²
Contract value: £9,000,000
Architect: Jerry Tate as Project Architect for Grimshaw
Structural Engineer: SKM Anthony Hunt
Services Engineer: Buro Happold
Landscape Architect: Land Use Consultants
Consultant Artist: Peter Randall-Page
Project Manager: Davis Langdon
Main Contractor: Mc Alpine JV
Timescale: Completed September 2005
This project brings together all the educational activities of the Eden Project under one envelope. The accommodation in the building ranges from a triple height exhibition space, a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, children's classrooms, staff offices and a cafe. These functions are sheltered under a timber canopy roof conceived as a 'tree of knowledge'. The design for this roof is formed around a structural grid based on a Phyllotactic pattern, which is the geometry of nearly all plant growth. In addition to this biomimicry the building also includes many sustainable technologies such as earth-cooled ground tubes and photovoltaic panels.
Image Credit: The Core, Jerry Tate as Project Architect for Grimshaw. Photos by Adam Parker
Education Facilities under a timber canopy
Project Location: Cornwall, UK
Client: The Eden Project Ltd
Size: 3,500m²
Contract value: £9,000,000
Architect: Jerry Tate as Project Architect for Grimshaw
Structural Engineer: SKM Anthony Hunt
Services Engineer: Buro Happold
Landscape Architect: Land Use Consultants
Consultant Artist: Peter Randall-Page
Project Manager: Davis Langdon
Main Contractor: Mc Alpine JV
Timescale: Completed September 2005
This project brings together all the educational activities of the Eden Project under one envelope. The accommodation in the building ranges from a triple height exhibition space, a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, children's classrooms, staff offices and a cafe. These functions are sheltered under a timber canopy roof conceived as a 'tree of knowledge'. The design for this roof is formed around a structural grid based on a Phyllotactic pattern, which is the geometry of nearly all plant growth. In addition to this biomimicry the building also includes many sustainable technologies such as earth-cooled ground tubes and photovoltaic panels.
Image Credit: The Core, Jerry Tate as Project Architect for Grimshaw. Photos by Adam Parker
