CLITTERHOUSE PAVILLION
RIBA Competition
West St Studio with Giulia Filippone
2021
RIBA Competition
West St Studio with Giulia Filippone
2021
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Competition entry for a new sports pavilion and community cafe in West London as part of the redevelopment of Brent Cross. The pavilion has been designed first and foremost as a meeting place for the local community, providing not only facilities to support the surrounding playing fields, but also a place that was equally accommodating of dog walkers, sunbathers, and birdwatchers as it was sports men and women. Located at the centre of the park the pavilion straddles a proposed route through the landscape, bringing all visitors through the building on a generous boardwalk. The design is raised on a timber deck which provides an elevated viewpoint and floats over the undulating landscape. A broad timber colonnade winds around a newly planted screen of trees, providing places to sit amongst the leaves and watch a game, whilst enclosing a generous terrace - a town square within the park - with a double height cafe at its centre. Changing rooms are arranged off of the boardwalk so that all parts of the building are accessible to all.
The pavilion would be constructed of native structural timber, with deep glu-lam beams creating a dramatic, light-filled, south-west facing cafe space, and would sit lightly on the ground using a simple post and beam design on minimal pad foundations. The main external walls would consist of a highly insulated balloon frame, potentially fabricated off-site, and using wood fibre insulation to create an energy efficient construction which would be supplemented with modest use of photovoltaics mounted on the changing rooms, and an air source heat pump. 
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