Temple Difficult / James Gorst Architects

The model new establishing, which is open to most of the people, incorporates a temple, library, chapels, meeting areas, a public foyer, and a catering kitchen inside newly landscaped grounds. The rationalized plan is organized as a set of orthogonal pavilions linked by a cloistered walkway, coping with onto a central courtyard yard. The inside affiliation follows a improvement from secular to ritual areas, transferring from a timber portico and social foyer on the shopper entrance throughout the east, via to the first temple home throughout the west.

With a brief to create a establishing characterised by peace and ease, the James Gorst Architects workers developed a restrained palette of timber, brick, and chalk lime mortar typical of the Hampshire context. The following areas allow for quiet contemplation and encourage a spiritual connection to the encircling panorama.

The establishing demonstrates an exemplary methodology to passive design and long-term sustainability. James Gorst Architects adopted a ‘fabric-first’ methodology to the assemble, with the first structural physique completely constructed off-site from glue-laminated timber, engineered to eradicate the need for any steelwork. Underfloor heating is obtainable by a ground provide heat pump that’s buried throughout the panorama, with additional vitality provided by photovoltaic panels.

The within temple’s pre-cast pendentive arches current thermal mass. A raised flooring slab naturally cools the internal areas with modern air supplied by an underground labyrinth air circulate system, whereas high-level actuators throughout the temple clerestory allow warmth air to flee.