Temple Advanced / James Gorst Architects

Temple Advanced / James Gorst Architects

Textual content description offered by the architects. James Gorst Architects has accomplished a brand new temple advanced within the village of Rake, Hampshire, throughout the South Downs Nationwide Park. The follow was chosen following a two-stage design competitors in early 2017 with a quick to switch the prevailing dilapidated Nineteen Seventies advanced.

The brand new constructing, which is open to the general public, contains a temple, library, chapels, assembly areas, a public lobby, and a catering kitchen inside newly landscaped grounds. The rationalized plan is organized as a collection of orthogonal pavilions related by a cloistered walkway, going through onto a central courtyard backyard. The interior association follows a development from secular to ritual areas, shifting from a timber portico and social lobby on the customer entrance within the east, via to the principle temple area within the west.

With a quick to create a constructing characterised by peace and ease, the James Gorst Architects group developed a restrained palette of timber, brick, and chalk lime mortar typical of the Hampshire context. The ensuing areas permit for quiet contemplation and encourage a non secular connection to the encompassing panorama.

The constructing demonstrates an exemplary method to passive design and long-term sustainability. James Gorst Architects adopted a ‘fabric-first’ method to the construct, with the principle structural body fully constructed off-site from glue-laminated timber, engineered to eradicate the necessity for any steelwork. Underfloor heating is offered by a floor supply warmth pump that’s buried within the panorama, with further energy offered by photovoltaic panels.

The interior temple’s pre-cast pendentive arches present thermal mass. A raised flooring slab naturally cools the inner areas with recent air equipped by an underground labyrinth air flow system, whereas high-level actuators within the temple clerestory permit heat air to flee.