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The Savill Building
- Windsor Great Park, Windsor, UK
Architect
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Glenn
Howells
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Date Built
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Opened to the
public 2006
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Location
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Windsor Great
Park
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| Description |
| The Windsor Great
Park website describes the building as having
an, "... undulating leaf-shaped roof, or
‘gridshell’. Expertise from Green Oak
Carpentry, and structural engineers Buro
Happold, ensured that the timber elements were
manipulated and locked into a shape creating
this strong, yet flowing, roof."
The roof is 98 metres long and extends 24
metres at its widest point and is, "... made
up of four layers with a regular one-metre
grid of larch, was built using over 20
kilometres of timber, felled from sustainable
forests on the estate. The aluminium roof
system, above the larch grid, has a 160mm
layer of insulation and was manufactured by
Keybemo. This serves as a waterproof shell,
and bears the oak rain screen." |
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