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The project imagines a meeting space and visitor centre in the ecologically protected wetland meadows of Oxford. Why are crucial deliberations on climate typically held in the austere world of corporate architecture? The Comm[Union] is designed to merge harmoniously with its natural environment in both considerations of materials and spatial design. A series of transitional thresholds are curated between architecture and nature. The inhabitant is to enter a sense of immersion in the natural richness of the site. As such the architecture hopes to offer a new environment for vital deliberations on the climate where nature is both psychologically and physically brought to the fore, a pervasive reminder of Earth’s ecological rights.
Gathering in the grass under the dappled light of the forest of trusses
The architecture hopes to offer a new environment for vital deliberations on the climate where nature is both psychologically and physically brought to the fore, a pervasive reminder of Earth’s ecological rights.
The architecture hopes to offer a new environment for vital deliberations on the climate where nature is both psychologically and physically brought to the fore.
The sculptural thatch roof drapes over the heavy cob walls; hanging close to the ground they become a continuation of the hedge. From the hard architecture emerges a soft architecture formed of paths blended into the grassland landscape.