montrose café hub
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.
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.
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.
client barnet council
status 2018
objective community building
structure structure mode
m&e engineer integration