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DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS HOK with front of house interiors by Mizzi Studio and Lumsden Design, the Family Kitchen & Shop at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is an environmentally driven, education-led food space. Te restaurant has been designed as a highly sustainable timber building that aligns with the sustainability ethos of Kew Gardens, and with interiors intended to present a colourful, interactive space that teaches families all about the origins of their food. Building on the success of the recently opened Children’s Garden, the family kitchen project aims to educate children in the value of healthy eating, good food preparation, the origins of ingredients and natural produce. Providing 250 covers, the 1,150 sq m sustainable facility has been conceived out of a desire by Kew Gardens to enhance the experience of visiting children and their families. Te architecture of the building tells the story of sustainable, flexible and timeless design. Overarching structural timber elements provide the rhythm of the design, reflecting the common language of various buildings and landscapes within Kew Garden An important driver for the project team and client alike was the promotion of sustainable construction techniques and materials. As such the restaurant and retail spaces have been designed with exposed timber structural elements (glulam beams, CLT walls and CLT soffit), exposed mechanical and electrical services, triple-glazed curtain wall facade, finishes made from recycled materials and an array of photovoltaic panels on the roof. In line with Kew’s commitment to become ‘climate positive’ by 2030, the building services strategy has been developed to reduce the energy consumption of the building throughout its lifespan. Photovoltaic panels on the roof and a heat recovery system, amongst other measures,
Project Family
Kitchen & Shop, Kew Gardens
London
Clockwise A tiled pizza over, draped with bright red infinity mirror periscopes sits in the centre of the Family Kitchen. The restaurant colour scheme draws from the natural hues and tones of each season. The restaurant and retail spaces have been designed with exposed timber elements
contribute to the efficient ongoing operation and maintenance of the building. Te Family Kitchen & Shop building is on target to achieve BREEAM Excellent certification and boasts an embodied carbon reduction of more than 50% against industry benchmarks. Stuart Ward, Associate at HOK, said: ‘We have always seen the Family Kitchen & Shop as an extension of the Children’s Garden and as such, transparency, materiality and form were the key drivers for the building design. Te elegant timber frame accommodates a flexible front of house space which can take on multiple layouts and is inherently future proof. Te regular rhythm of the fully glazed main facade is a nod to the existing architecture elsewhere in the Gardens and the exposed timber offers a visual and tactile link to the natural world. ‘Sustainability is at the forefront of the client’s approach to its global research, and it was important this exciting new facility worked hard to reflect this ethos. We have utilised raw, tactile and robust materials with exposed detailing to create a space that is honest in its approach while promoting responsible and sustainable design and construction techniques. Apart from being renewable, one of timber’s most unique features is the fact that it’s a carbon negative option given the material both absorbs atmospheric carbon and creates considerably lower volumes of emissions during the manufacturing process.’ Mizzi Studio’s front of house interiors have been designed to create a magical world of gardens, forests and woodlands where human beings appear to have been shrunk to the size of small creatures living within nature. Tis vibrant, stimulating world aims to promote the global research undertaken by RBG scientists, and the importance of diet, in an interactive, theatrical and learning-based setting.
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