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45TH ANNUAL WOOD AWARDS
OTHER SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
Alconbury Weald Club, Alconbury Weald Huntingdon Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Wood species: Austrian Spruce
Sky Health & Fitness Centre Osterley, London Architect: dRMM Wood species: Spruce
Stihl Treetop Walkway, Westonbirt Gloucestershire Architect: Glenn Howells Architect Wood species: Scottish and Siberian Larch
Mottisfont Welcome Centre Mottisfont, Hampshire Architect: Burd Haward Architects Ltd Wood species: European Spruce, European Larch, Canadian Western Red Cedar, Thermally Modified Scandinavian Redwood, European Oak, Plywood and OSB Sheathing
COMMERCIAL & LEISURE: GLOUCESTER SERVICES
Location: Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire Architect: Glenn Howells Architects Client/owner: Westmorland Ltd Structural Engineer: BWB Consulting Main Contractor/Builder: Buckingham Group Joinery Company & Wood Supplier: B&K Structures Post Contract (Construction) Architect: AFL Architects Quantity Surveyor & Project Management: Frank Whittle Partnership Planning & Landscape Architect: Pegasus Planning Group Wood species: European Spruce
Gloucester Services is a 60,000 ft2 motor-
way service area located in the Cotswolds countryside, flanked by an area of natural beauty. It is testimony to family firm Westmorland’s intention to apply a different approach to motorway services area design,
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and provide services dedicated to food, farming and the community. Inspired by a farming background,
Westmorland opened the first family run motorway services in England: Tebay Services in Cumbria in 1972. Gloucester Services is only the company’s second serv- ices, and reflects the same ethos for sustainable buildings crafted in natural materials.
Glenn Howells Architects was appointed to design a motorway services inspired by a barn-like environment that would use natural, local materials as much as possible. The main building is bedded into the hill- side to lessen the impact on the landscape and to provide an acoustic barrier. The exposed internal glulam roof forms a striking cruck-frame like structure. Glulam was also the perfect material for the front of house areas like the foyer and restaurant. The glulam interior is complemented by retaining walls dressed in Cotswold dry stone.
ADF OCTOBER 2016
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