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montrose café hub

montrose café hub

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Montrose Café Hub is a community building situated within the greenery of Montrose Playing Fields, north London. The building accommodates a café, community events space and changing facilities for the local youth sports programme. 

 
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The brief called for a truly modular building, requiring an innovative timber portal frame system, allowing for complete flexibility for future expansion. The radial plan, with the axial rotation of the portal frames, generates a system where the buildings form is its structure.

 
 
 
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High level openable windows passively ventilate the building throughout, optimised by the undulating green roof increasing in height at these key areas bookmarking the building.

 
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client barnet council
status 2018
objective community building
structure structure mode
m&e engineer integration