The Earth Centre
The now sadly defunct Earth Centre near Doncaster was intended to be a major public resource for sustainability. Its aim was to celebrate the creative and often ingenious solutions, the `convoy of ideas' and the principles and values that underpin sustainability.
Solar Canopy (and Restaurant Building)
Fielden
Clegg Bradley Architects, Atelier
One Engineers
The site is dominated by the space frame springing from the ground into
a kind of abstracted tree canopy made from larch members connected by
galvanised steel nodeds. The whole is topped with a double-curved roof
pitched at just 5°. Fabricated from an aluminium photovoltaic framework
the roof comprises of some 250 PV panels generating around 80,000kW per
year.
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Welcome building
Bill Dunster Architects, Mark Lovell Design Engineers
The building was designed to welcome visitors to the centre. The simple lightweight structure is engineered almost entirely from recycled materials. The columns were manufactured from recycled telegraph poles and the glulam beams were made from small strips of low-grade timber.
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Conference Building
Bill Dunster Architects
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