The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience

Charlestown of Aberlour, Speyside, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Industrial · Distillery And Visitor Centre · Temperate · 2018

A whisky distillery cut into the hills of Speyside, its production cells expressed as five linked domes under an undulating timber gridshell roof of some 380,000 mostly unique components. The roof carries a pre-grown wildflower living blanket and the building is partly buried to sit within a protected landscape. It was shortlisted for the 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Innovation highlights

• Timber gridshell roof of ~380,000 unique parts
• Pre-grown wildflower living roof
• Building set into the landform
• Production cells expressed as linked domes

Innovations in the catalogue

• Free-Form Timber Gridshell Roof
• Building Set Into the Landform
• Pre-Grown Wildflower Living Roof

Client / Developer

Edrington / The Macallan

Architect

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Engineer

Arup; landscape by Gillespies

Type

Distillery and visitor centre

#distillery #timber gridshell #green roof #landform #industrial

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