Lambeth Green
One that got away… a pavilion for Lambeth Green. The Garden Museum held a competition to gain proposals for how you might create a pavilion entrance to the new green public realm and park that is being created to the design of Dan Pearson Studio. Our entry, named the Hortus Conclusus, was designed to subtly integrate into the new green space, whilst complimenting the existing Garden Museum.
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A distinctive lateral landmark to bolster the site’s historic and religious importance, the Lambeth Green Hortus Conclusus takes a semi-spiral approach through the epicentre of the new Lambeth Green site. Designed to increase public usage of St Mary’s Gardens, while boosting sightlines from Lambeth Bridge and the Albert Embankment, the Hortus Conclusus provides acoustic protection from the busy road junction using thoughtfully chosen red brick, mosaics designed by the London School of Mosaic, glazed tile and mirror cladding.
Embedded in these ‘inhabited walls’ are a pair of pavilions which were designed to provide an accessible space for volunteers and gardeners. The walls themselves are a bold centrepoint, providing playful pedestrian-friendly shelter, and an inclusive and accessible sloping entrance into St Mary’s Gardens and the Garden Museum. Preserving and enhancing the site’s existing biodiversity, including the established treelines, the green roofs of the twinned pavilions are matched by burnt wood cladding, with bird-hide style shuttered windows to protect the buildings at night.
