The Big Roof, Forest School Camps

Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Education · Low-Carbon Timber Utility Building · Temperate · 2024

A 745 sqm single-storey storage, teaching, dining and equipment-repair building for a children's camping charity in the Cambridgeshire Fens, replacing three dilapidated agricultural sheds. A seven-metre 'lantern' bay projects above the roofline so tents can be hung to dry year-round. The timber building was delivered for the same cost as an equivalent steel-frame shed.

Innovation highlights

  • Long-span timber trusses replacing steel portal frames
  • Timber shed at the cost of a steel shed
  • Low-cost, low-carbon material palette
  • Tent-drying 'lantern' bay

Innovations in the catalogue

  • Cost-Matched Long-Span Timber Truss Shed
  • Low-Cost Hardwearing Material Palette
  • Projecting Lantern for Passive Tent Drying
Client / Developer
Forest School Camps charity
Architect
Mole Architects with Invisible Studio
Type
Low-Carbon Timber Utility Building

#timber #low carbon #low cost #shed typology #rural

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