Work in Progress

Adventure Rope

Artshed

Cycle Station

The Wood

Adventure Rope

Location

Woodland Enterprise Centre Flimwell East Sussex 

Structure

Chestnut round pole with polycarbonate cladding.

The Project

This is set to be new UK headquarters for the France-
based company, Adventure Rope Ltd. As designers and 
manufactures of timber and rope equipment for recreation 
and training, they believe that relocating from Wales to 
East Sussex woodland would be ideal for the company's 
image. It will also give them access to the areas large 
timber reserves and Kent ports for exporting to Europe. 
The buildings structure echoes the adventure courses 
that are designed and made within it. 

The round poles that dominate the roof area are 
dedicated to training the people who will operate the 
courses that they make. The roof will also have an area
sheltered by a fabric membrane for outdoor verbal 
tutorials in the canopy. This allows the adjacent 
woodland to remain clear. 

Environmentally the buildings will be low-impact both in 
construction and use terms. Only the trees required to 
build the building will be cleared, retaining all sustainable 
trees and planting new ones where ever possible. No soil 
will be brought to or leave the site and all wastewater 
will be treated locally. 

Value

£350,000 

Artshed

Location

St. Anne’s Garden, Wardour Street, Soho, London 

Structure

Larch parabolic frame with enamelled skin.

The Project

ArtShed is collaborative project between artists, 
engineers and architects for St Anne’s Gardens, an 
ancient plague burial ground in central London's Soho. 
Providing a small public toilet aimed for use by children 
and the disabled. 

The plan is split into two areas, the toilet and the porch.
The external skin will be a painted stove enamelled steel 
skin while the internal skin will be of polycarbonate panels
protecting collected objects to be mounted by the artists
within the wall thickness. 

Further funding for the project has to be raised but it is 
hoped that the construction work will commence late 
2005. 

Value

£95,000

Further Infomation

www.Sohogreen.com

Cycle Station

Location

Avenue Vert, Paris to London cycle way.

Structure

Chestnut laminated trussed frame with fabric clad 
prefabricated units.

The Project

A lightweight prefabricated timber structure to be built in
various locations over the Avenue Vert cycle network, 
linking central London with central Paris. The building is 
designed to provide low cost accommodation for walkers, 
skaters, cyclists and riders travelling off road between 
the two cities. 

The building will provide a similar function to medieval 
coaching inns. 

Value

£350,000

Further Infomation

The Wood

Location

Cambridge, England

Structure

Reciprocating Larch frame with glass and glazed tile 
cladding.

The Project

Glazed grotto swimming pool enclosure over an existing
swimming pool. Over but off set from the pool will be an
open timber framed hall used mostly for sport and public
events. This is set into a 1 hectare wooded site of a 
former gravel quarry in central Cambridge. The site 
includes three other existing timber structures that will
be linked by a timber bridge.

Value

Private Home