Construction year: 1996 - 2002
Contemporary architectural style
Square meters: 638 m2
Client: Private
Location: Sussex, England
Function: Museum
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Project author: Edward Cullinan
Country of birth: Inglaterra
Graduated University: Universidad de Cambridge
Cullinans collaborated with structural engineers, Buro Happold, and the Green Oak Carpentry Company to develop this innovative, low energy structure. The gridshell was formed from a flat lattice of green oak that was lowered into a three-dimensional shape with the use of gravity.
The lower level, the Archive, serves as the Museum's storage, administration centre and exhibition hall. Sunken into the ground, it protects its contents from weather changes using minimal energy. The upper level, the Workshop, is the space for the Museum's carpenters to restore and build the timber frames that will go into the Museum's many collected buildings.
"Cullinan Studio - Projects - Downland Gridshell." Cullinan Studio - Projects - Downland Gridshell. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.
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