Finalist 2010
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Set in the tranquil Court Hey Park, the National Wildflower Centre exists
to raise awareness of wildflowers and to promote the creation of new biodiverse habitats. The
result of a unique collaboration between architects,
sustainability engineers and structural engineers, the design was the
winner of an international RIBA competition in 2009.
By explaining complex maths and physics theory through architecture,
wildflower structures and natural phenomena, the Centre hopes to
stimulate curiosity, inspire confidence, challenge educational stereotypingand cultivate creativity and innovation.
The proposals are inspired by the natural environment and the organic
morphology is fully integrated with its landscape context. The Fibonacci
series, which predicts the geometry of growth in the natural world, has
been used as an underlying principle to inspire the architecture. The
dynamic form of the scheme is generated from the composition of two
primary elements that together embody physical and intellectual links
with the landscape.
A sweeping rammedearth wall is a boundary with the gardens that draws
visitors to a generous glazed entrance foyer. Taking its form from the
symmetry of a flower head, the main exhibition space is captured as a
single elegant volume.
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