56 | Feature: Wood Awards 2022
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This combination of high-performing engineered timber with traditional joinery achieves an elegance, revealed in the butterfly truss design, which echoes traditional collegiate halls in its aesthetics, but also exploits the compressive strength of timber in its structure.
Homerton College Dining Hall was designed by architects Feilden Fowles, and structural engineers Structure Workshop. It was built by Barnes Construction, with joinery from Classic Barfitting. The wood supplier was Constructional Timber. The Wood Awards building judges, a team of world-leading professionals led by Jim Greaves of Hopkins Architects, visited all 20 buildings shortlisted in the Wood Awards before deciding the winner, in one of the UK’s most rigorous assessments for any competition.
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Having chosen Homerton College Dining Hall as the Gold winner, the judges said they were impressed by the harmony of the structure with the rest of the college, allowing for light and flow from the garden and to other areas of the college to create a building both “natural and iconic”.
Homerton College Dining Hall beat more than 200 buildings in the UK to claim the Gold Award. It was also the winner of the Education & Public Sector category, and of the Structural Award.
WINNERS IN OTHER CATEGORIES Homerton College Dining Hall was not the only winner of the night, with the likes of Abba Arena, Mews House, Douglas Fir House, and the Equal Access Project all winning their categories and showcasing the diverse use of timber, from large commercial arenas through to intimate private homes.
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Commercial & Leisure winner: Abba Arena PHOTOS: DIRK LINDNER
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Interiors winner: Equal Access Project – Inner Portico
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Private winner: Mews House PHOTOS: RORY GARDINER
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Restoration and Reuse winner: The Water Tower PHOTOS: DENNIS PEDERSEN, TARAN WILKHU, MIKE TONKIN, TONKIN LIU
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Small Project winner: Douglas Fir House PHOTOS: CHRISTIAN BRAILEY
◄ The dining hall, buttery, kitchens, and associated amenities give rise to a bright, airy and efficient setting by day, which can transform into a dramatic ceremonial setting at night. The ash-lined buttery serves as a café and provides an area to socialise or to study.
At the heart of the hall is an impressive timber structure with no interrupting supports that allows for a large, clear space; breath- taking to building professionals, educators, and students alike.
Each sweet chestnut glulam truss in the hall is formed of four members, which are connected at a central node and to the full- height columns on each side, while above these beams an engineered timber roof deck lends lateral stability.
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The Abba Arena was a notable winner, scooping the award in the Commercial & Leisure category. Home to the ground- breaking virtual concert series, Abba Voyage, the building in East London is the world’s largest demountable concert venue, with a capacity of 3,000.
From the auditorium – a four-storey seating area made of 1,650 unique CLT panels, each up to 9.9m long, to the exterior rainscreen made up of 1,400 finger-jointed larch fins, timber is integral to every part of the project.
Timber continues into the front of house, with the central concourse covered by a hybrid spruce glulam and steel canopy structure. Twenty-four hexagonal canopies, each with a diameter of 10m, combine to form the geometric roof structure where LED lighting is integrated into the glulam beams. The concourse is surrounded by seven CLT buildings, each clad with a complex larch rainscreen.
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