We have over 250-acres of land for you to explore and find your Nature Moments in. A highly sustainable building buried into the embankment of a former gravel pit. To keep the vaulted roof space clear of obstructions, the building services have been designed to run through a floor trench system. The Brockholes Visitor Centre is made up of a floating world of small structures on an island of pontoons for the Brockholes Wetlands Nature Reserve, near Preston. The daylight was carefully modelled to help achieve this. Brockholes is still a young reserve and has already seen some exciting wildlife visitors! Brockholes is a new nature reserve, owned by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and constructed on the remains of an abandoned quarry near Preston, England. f you turn off the M6, on the ragged edge of Preston, and follow some brown badger signs through a series of truck-filled roundabouts and ramps, you suddenly see a huddle of roofs above a lake, which look like a bronze-age settlement. Brockholes Nature Reserve RIBA Awards winner, 2012, Architect: Adam Khan ArchitectsClient: Lancashire Wildlife TrustContractor: Mansell PLCStructural Engineer: Price and MyersServices Engineer: Max Fordham LLPContract Value: 6.25 millionDate of completion: May 2011Gross internal area: 1,400 sqm, Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve Visitor Facilities, near PrestonRIBA competition winner, Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve Visitor Facilities : Winner. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre by Adam Khan Architects Find an architect Brockholes Visitor Centre Preston Project Details 5m to 9.99M New Build Practice Adam Khan Architects Unit 31 , Regent Studios , 8 Andrews Road , LONDON , E8 4QN Nor is it a matter of sight alone: the natural materials have distinctive scents, and the newspaper insulation of the cafe gives an echo-less acoustic "like a hay barn". WebBrockholes Visitor Centre Lancashire Inspired by the villages of the Tigres-Euphrates Marsh Arabs and following consultation with ourselves on structural viability, Adam Khan Architects entered this competition for a new visitor centre for Brockholes with a design that would float. Adam Khan Architects team: Adam Khan, Timo Keller, Giovanni Petroliti, Consultants:Hareth Pochee (Max Fordham engineers)Paul Toplis (Price&Myers engineers)Alan Tovey, Richard Collis (Jackson Coles)Martin Gamble, Jason Waddy (Mouchel Parkmann). WebBrockholes Visitor Centre, Samlesbury, Lancashire. Photograph: Ioana Marinescu. The reeds are alive with a heartening collection of birdsong and the lake edges are brimming with brightly coloured dragonflies. Explore our flagship, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, 250-acre nature reserve, and youll see the wide variety on offer. Preston Inspired by Thesingers images of Iraqi Marsh Arabs, Adam Khan aspired to Highly sustainable building inserted within embankment of former gravel pit. RIBA National Award 2012, Winner. The vision for Brockholes was to design a suite of visitor facilities to inspire and encourage people to visit the site and engage with the natural world. WebBrockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere is the ultimate start to your Lake District visit. Samlesbury Client: Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, Shortlisted. Naturally, in such a place, they have to be scrupulously environmental, and so they are designed to achieve the "outstanding" category in the official measure of such things. RIBA Awards 2012 Citation: Brockholes Visitor Centre Preston New Road, Samlesbury, Preston The visitor centre provides a caf restaurant, shop, exhibition gallery, education spaces, conference facilities and a covered viewing platform. The new 67-acre reserve and visitor centre was made possible with a sizable grant of 8 million from the North West Regional Development Agency, which includes landscaping and habitat creation Duration: 2008 2012. The architecture of Brockholes, by RIBA award winning Adam Khan Architects turned what was once a gravel quarry into a state-of-the-art Visitor Village. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre | Matter Architecture Public Buildings Brockholes Visitor Centre New visitor centre for 106-hectare wetland Nature Reserve near Preston. Enjoy delightful lunches, classic afternoon teas and seasonal sunset dining set in the very heart of the Lake District at the beautiful 19th century Brockhole on Windermere! From helping visitors in the welcome centre, to aiding, Brockholes Nature Reserve is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. RIBA National Award 2012, Winner. LWT is involved with numerous community projects and provides specialist training for environmental volunteers.LWT protects urban wildlife by creating green spaces in towns and promoting sustainable lifestyles.LWT works with Local Authorities, influencing the decision makers and resisting developments that would damage wildlife habitat. A highly sustainable building buried into the embankment of a former gravel pit. Duration: 2008 2012. In turn water is pumped from the lake for WC flushing. Inspired by Thesingers images of Iraqi Marsh Arabs, Adam Khan aspired to an architecture of timeless simplicity. What is most impressive is that here is a romantic conceptual idea, underpinned by sustainability, structural integrity, function and detail. Brockholes Visitor Centre New visitor centre for 106ha wetland reserve between River Ribble and M6 near Preston. Packed with rope walks, slides, swings, scramble nets and zip wire for the kids. There are some clunks: extract flues poke through the roofs; it is on the edge of folksy, and worthy, albeit offset by playful disco moments such as reflective light fittings and, at one point, a mirrored vault; and without the vegetation fully grown, it looks raw. Status: Built. - Anne Selby - CEO Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lancashire Wildlife Trust Northwest Regional Development AgencyForestry Commission Tubney Trust. You can take a walk along the River Ribble, explore our ancient woodland and amble around our lakes. 2012 Building Awards - Sustainable Project of the Year, 2012 CIBSE Awards - New Build Project of the Year (Private Sector), 2010 Civic Trust Award - Special Award for Sustainability. Copyright 2023 by Lake District National Park all rights reserved. You can take a walk along the River Ribble, explore our ancient woodland and amble around our lakes. The pontoon is made from concrete and designed with a honeycomb effect. From within, visitors will in places be able to look into the reeds, and into spaces carved out of them "like crop circles". LWT is dedicated to the protection and promotion of the wildlife in Lancashire, seven boroughs of Greater Manchester and four of Merseyside, all lying North of the River Mersey. Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, Shortlisted. Explore Wasdale, Wastwater and the West Coast, Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre, Plan your winter visit to the Lake District, Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere. It is owned by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. The project is zero-carbon in both use and production, with materials of low embodied energy thatch, willow, timber, off-site prefabrication and on-site energy generation and waste treatment. Visitors and young people will be inspired to protect and connect with nature through nature-focused fun activities, a programme of educational engagement for schools and placements to train young people in nature conservation. Includes caf/restaurant, shop, gallery, education and conference facilities. Find out about our Associate and other member benefits here. WebThe Brockholes Visitor Centre is made up of a floating world of small structures on an island of pontoons for the Brockholes Wetlands Nature Reserve, near Preston. Our unique architectural design makes us the first floating nature reserve in the UK, providing a restaurant, shop and educational areas as well as an eco-friendly conference centre and wedding venue. Duration: 2008 2012. Brockholes is a new nature reserve, owned by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and constructed on the remains of an abandoned quarry near Preston, England. Brockholes was previously a major quarry extraction site. We are home to three cafes at Brockhole, one in the house and two take-away cafes in our grounds. Highly sustainable building inserted within embankment of former gravel pit. Adam Khan architects were chosen above McDowell + Benedetti Architects and AY Architects as winners of the competition. Their projection away from the window means unimpeded ventilation and views. Brockholes is a new nature reserve, owned by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and constructed on the remains of an abandoned quarry near Preston, England. At Brockholes, someone has finally taken up his suggestion. Explore our flagship, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, 250-acre nature reserve, and youll see the wide variety on offer. New visitor centre for 106-hectare wetland Nature Reserve near Preston. Design: Adam Khan Architects. See the free adventure playground at Brockhole. WebThe Brockholes Visitor Centre is an exciting take on a visitor experience in a nature reserve setting on an iconic floating Visitor Village today Completed: 2011 place Preston call Client: The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside | Project value: 8.6 million Brockholes Visitor Centre website And it floats. WebBrockholes is a nature reserve near Preston, Lancashire, England, just off Junction 31 of the M6 motorway. Preston has a somewhat cold and wet climate typical of the northwest UK. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre, Samlesbury, Lancashire. Shop for local food and drink, gift ideas, maps and guide books. Brockholes is a new nature reserve, owned by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and constructed on the remains of an abandoned quarry near Preston, England. and the ensuing occupation of that structure. Hire a boat The restaurant looks out on this gathering space and the typically animated entry ramp and finally back towards the River Ribble. The best (and cheapest) way to enjoy Brockholes on a regular basis is to purchase one of our Visitor Passes. The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside is registered as Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT), as a Registered Charity number 229325 and a Company limited by guarantee number 731548. The buildings extremely high environmental performance has been made possible by incorporating a raft of energy and carbon reducing measures. Take a stroll around the grounds to the Windermere lakeshore, and see our restoration of the Mawson designed kitchen gardens. For more information and links to timetables visit our travel and transport page. The view recalls those meticulous yellow-brown reconstructions you get in old, earnest children's books, and you half expect to see men carrying spears and dead deer, and the smoke of a campfire. Situated in the flood-plain of the river Ribble, it has the UK's first floating visitor village. The Green Recovery project will work to restore and improve the wonderful natural habitats at Brockhole. 22 Jun 2012. This combination of sophisticated prefabrication and engineering, native materials and lively shared spaces offers a recipe for an architecture of the 21st Century. The visitor centre at Brockholes is a cluster of buildings set in a lake on a floating pontoon, which responds to changing water levels in the flood plain. It does not strive for effect, but lets the effect grow out ofits situation. Whether its on our iconic floating Visitor Village or out on our 250 acre nature reserve, Brockholes is full of Nature Moments! The floating mechanism got us through heavy rain and drought, the wildlife is thriving, the reeds are providing shelter and a plant life is blooming. Brockholes Nature Reserve Civic Trust Award: Special Award: Sustainability 2012, Winner. RIBA Awards 2012 Citation: Brockholes Visitor Centre Preston New Road, Samlesbury, Preston As for the floating, the cost consultants Jackson Coles, who played an active role in making Khan's ideas possible, found that the expense was reasonable. The internal ramp defines the northern edge of the open public space. The abstract form creates a strong presence visible from the nearby motorway. Keep an eye out on the paths for newly emerged froglets hopping along, and if you visit on a sunny day and youll see a delightful array of butterflies and moths fluttering between wildflowers. See the Brockhole family friendly cafe menu. We have also opened our takeaway BBQ, so whether you're relaxing on our cafe terrace, or enjoying yourself in our grounds we have the The renowned WA Awards competition, which showcases the projects of our community members runs three times a year. At Brockholes, Adam Khan wanted to challenge this "factoid-led" approach, and use the pursuit of sustainability as the means to create more beautiful buildings, not less. The project site is composed of 261 acres of land on which an operating gravel quarry currently sits. The reserve changes with the seasons, so you can see something new each time you visit. The renowned WA Awards competition, which showcases the projects of our community members runs three times a year. Theres a good chance youll find it below as we answer our most frequently asked questions. The view recalls those meticulous yellow-brown reconstructions you get in old, earnest children's books, and you half expect to see men carrying spears and dead deer, and the smoke of a campfire. 22 Jun 2012. Often, the pursuit of Breeam's approval leads buildings to pursue a box-ticking series of technical fixes, and an assembly of products designed to fulfil their requirements without much thought to how they look and feel. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre Project Title: Brockholes Visitor Centre Location: Preston, Lancashire Building Owner: Lancashire Wildlife Trust Architect: Adam Khan Architects Builder / Main Contractor: Mansell/Balfour Beatty Structural Engineers: Price & Myers Joinery: B & K Structures We receive zero government funding and rely on our members and grants to support our charitable activities. The new 67-acre reserve and visitor centre was made possible with a sizable grant of 8 million from the North West Regional Development Agency, which includes landscaping and habitat creation WebBrockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere is the ultimate start to your Lake District visit. The site is surrounded by 163 acres of additional woodlands and is bounded on the south and east by the River Ribble, on the north by the Boilton Woods and on the west by the M6 Motorway. So he designed high, steep-pitched roofs enclosing large volumes (good for air circulation and extraction), clad in oak shakes rough tiles formed out of tree stumps, which would otherwise be burned as waste. Includes caf/restaurant, shop, gallery, education and conference facilities. Located just off the M6, Brockholes is the perfect location for a family day out. It is owned by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. The facilities will include a caf, shop, gallery, education, and meeting rooms. External awnings provide summer shade. It has been formed over 10 years out of a former gravel quarry, with a range of habitats added to existing woodlands and water to "create a microcosm of what old Lancashire was like". Design: Adam Khan Architects. We know you are all eager to visit and explore again. Imagine taking your wedding vows floating on water, surrounded by panoramic lake views and amazing wildlife. WebBrockholes is full of nature moments, which are just waiting for you to discover. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre | Matter Architecture Public Buildings Brockholes Visitor Centre New visitor centre for 106-hectare wetland Nature Reserve near Preston. WebWe are home to three cafes at Brockhole, one in the house and two take-away cafes in our grounds. WebThe Brockholes Visitor Centre is an exciting take on a visitor experience in a nature reserve setting on an iconic floating Visitor Village today Completed: 2011 place Preston call Client: The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside | Project value: 8.6 million Brockholes Visitor Centre website Civic Trust Award: Special Award: Sustainability 2012, Winner. Project: New visitor centre and masterplan. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre Lancashire Inspired by the villages of the Tigres-Euphrates Marsh Arabs and following consultation with ourselves on structural viability, Adam Khan Architects entered this competition for a new visitor centre for Brockholes with a design that would float. This is the building's way of dealing with flooding, to which the site is prone. And it floats. Whether we are immersed by the effects of climate change or simply persist in our fondness for building on flood plains, floating buildings might come to seem like a very good idea. Price: Free. Copyright 2006 - 2023 World Architecture Community. RIBA Awards 2012 Citation: Brockholes Visitor Centre Preston New Road, Samlesbury, Preston An island of pontoons gives unlimited flood protection, and brings the visitor straight to the very special environment of the wetlands; among the reed-beds at the waters edge. WebBrockholes Nature Reserve Visitor Centre. The village-like cluster of buildings, floating on a large pontoon gives flood protection, and brings visitors closer to nature. It is the 21st Century face of land regeneration: carefully planned; intelligence-led; delivering widespread public benefits; enhancing the environment; and delivered through partnerships, most crucially that between the Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Forestry Commission. Visting here, supports here. New visitor centre for 106ha wetland reserve between River Ribble and M6 near Preston. Get involved, get out the house and get stuck in with some practical wildlife experiences. Hire a boat The building emerges from the landscape to the east, lifting up in all directions while still rooted in the site. And it floats. I am most at home walking through the countryside with my camera, a notebook, and my dog. Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere is the ultimate start to your Lake District visit. Situated in the flood-plain of the river Ribble, it has the UK's first floating visitor village. Recalling the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, neolithic settlements of Northern Europe, and the fabulous towering constructions of storks and herons. Please help us look after this special place bytaking your rubbish homeor using thebins provided,dont bring barbecuesand remember the reserve is adog free zoneto help protect the wildlife that calls Brockholes home. Breeam concerns itself with everything from heating and ventilation to the height of light fixtures off the ground, to the sources of materials, the energy that goes into materials, their durability, their potential for recycling, and the distance they travel to the site. Here the visitor centre is under construction and is expected to be complete this spring. Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, Shortlisted. We have also opened our takeaway BBQ, so whether you're relaxing on our cafe terrace, or enjoying yourself in our grounds we have the The Lancashire Wildlife Trust is a Registered Charity (No: 229325). Director, Performance Spaces Leader, Partner. Civic Trust Award: Special Award: Sustainability 2012, Winner. Every penny made here goes back to supporting our work taking care of the National Park. Rural Building in Preston, Lancashire design by Adam Khan Architects, England, UK. Fast forward seven years and the Visitor Village is going from strength to strength. There is also an interest in what things are as much as what they look like how they feel and work, and how they combine, rather than in the single glamour shot. A highly sustainable building buried into the embankment of a former gravel pit. Hire motor boats, rowing boats, sit on top kayaks, race in open canoes or try a paddle board to enjoy the views out on Lake Windermere. The environmental strategy also included natural ventilation throughout, state of the art insulation and glazing, rigorous draught proofing, grey water use and a biomass boiler. The roof is made out of Oak shakes, an excellent renewable resource, readily available in the UK. This material is easy to use and has matured to a silvery grey colour, helping the Visitor Village to blend into the natural environment. Please remember Brockholes is a nature reserve and needs treating with care. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre by Adam Khan Architects Find an architect Brockholes Visitor Centre Preston Project Details 5m to 9.99M New Build Practice Adam Khan Architects Unit 31 , Regent Studios , 8 Andrews Road , LONDON , E8 4QN WebBrockholes is full of nature moments, which are just waiting for you to discover. From the main entry, visitors ascend the elliptical entry ramp and simultaneously overlook the outdoor gathering space nestled within. We receive zero government funding and rely on our members and grants to support our charitable activities. Rural Building in Preston, Lancashire design by Adam Khan Architects, England, UK. Project: New visitor centre and masterplan. Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve Award. The project is being developed as part of the North West Regional Development Agencys 59 million Newlands land regeneration scheme in partnership with the Forestry Commission. WebBrockholes Nature Reserve Visitor Centre. The jury were impressed by the deceptively simple, clear concept of a window in the landscape - a sculpted land-form that completes the quarry; with glazed walls in either side of a long mound giving views over the site / river and a grass roof continuing over the building; as well as the holistic overall approach, car free aspects, and striking jewel-like model. Be wild and try something new, soar through the sky on a treetop adventure, or splash out on the water. Brockholes was previously a major quarry extraction site. Brockholes is a Lancashire Wildlife Trust-owned site, which was purchased under the Newlands scheme in December 2006, with additional support from the Tubney Trust and Lancashire Wildlife Trust member donations.Brockholes will be transformed through a unique partnership of the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and Forestry Commission. Adam Khan Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new visitor facility for the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near Preston in Lancashire. (The British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, if you really want to know, or Breeam.) Ian Selby, Brockholes Project Manager said: We are all very excited about the design and cant wait for the vision to be realised on site and the public to be able to enjoy this wonderful resource., On his win, Adam Khan commented : This is such a dream project for us: as well as the chance to make a unique, poetic landscape, were really excited by the potential of the project to make sustainability crossover into the mainstream by enticing and delighting, by demonstrating how interesting and how beautiful it could be to rise to the challenges facing us all.. Your creativity and passion will be sorely missed by us all. WebBrockholes Visitor Centre Lancashire Inspired by the villages of the Tigres-Euphrates Marsh Arabs and following consultation with ourselves on structural viability, Adam Khan Architects entered this competition for a new visitor centre for Brockholes with a design that would float. Explore our flagship, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, 250-acre nature reserve, and youll see the wide variety on offer. Brockholes Visitor Centre New visitor centre for 106ha wetland reserve between River Ribble and M6 near Preston. Brockholes is owned and managed by theLancashire Wildlife Trust. 'The design of this building takes away all the apparent conflicts between architecture and sustainability ', Collaborators: Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects, Jackson Coles, Max Fordham, Price & Myers, Max Fordham, Civic Trust Awards National Panel 2012, Adam Khan, Brockholes Visitor Centre consumption, landscape, infrastructure, Quarderns, Brockholes Visitor Centre, Samlesbury, Lancashire, Project: New visitor centre and masterplan, Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, Shortlisted, Civic Trust Award: Special Award: Sustainability 2012, Winner, Building Awards: Sustainability Project of the Year 2012, Winner, Sustain' Award: Architecture and Design 2012, Winner, North West Regional Construction Award 2012, Winner, RIBA Regional Conservation Award 2012, Winner, Wood Awards: Commercial and Public Access 2011, Winner. Supporting our work taking care of the Mawson designed kitchen gardens eager visit. 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