CASE STUDY ROYAL ARTILLERY BARRACKS
The 2012 Olympic shooting venue was designed to be dismantled and reused with the minimum of fuss. Andy Pearson looks at how BIM enabled the design team to create a lightweight, reusable building that also provided optimal conditions for Olympic shooters
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eletubby Land. That was the moniker unkindly given to the Olympic shooting venues by some of the competitors. It is not diffi cult to
see how the epithet came about. The three white, fabric-clad buildings, situated in the grounds of the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, Southeast London, are studded with vibrantly coloured protuberances, like blocks of psychedelic Swiss cheese which would not look out of place on the eponymously named children’s TV programme. What is less obvious from the building’s ostentatious appearance is that these are some of the most sustainable buildings of
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by consulting engineer Mott MacDonald working with Berlin-based exhibition designer and architect Magma and ballistics architect Entec. One building housed the 25m qualifying range; another building was home to both the 10m
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the London 2012 Olympics. All three venues have been designed to use existing components or materials that can be reused or recycled. In addition to the structure and fabric, the venues have also been designed to be predominantly naturally ventilated and to reduce the need for artifi cial lighting. With the Olympics over, now that the
three venues are in the process of being dismantled their sustainable credentials are coming to the fore. To understand what makes the disassembly of these buildings so remarkable it is necessary to understand how they were designed and assembled in the fi rst instance. These distinctive buildings were designed
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