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SUSTAINABILITY & LANDSCAPING IN KENT

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01/06/2017

/ BBM Architects
Site progress in Sittingbourne, Kent

Sittingbourne, Kent

Client: Swale Borough Council

Project: New build Village/Community Hall

Access Lakeview village hall’s website here

SUSTAINABILITY & LANDSCAPING IN KENTThe completion works are moving along on site in Sittingbourne, great to see the soft and hard landscaping coming together! Lakeview Village Hall’s grand opening is scheduled for the beginning of July.

SUSTAINABILITY & LANDSCAPING IN KENTIn January 2015, BBM were awarded the appointment of architect for a new village hall within the rapidly enlarging neighbourhood of Great Easthall to the northeast of Sittingbourne in Kent. For the new building, named by local residents as Lakeview Village Hall, BBM’s pitch was to create a ‘marker on the map’; to provide a visual and community focal point within its emerging townscape and landscape setting.

SUSTAINABILITY & LANDSCAPING IN KENTDesign for the Ecology

The project also provides a good home for local ecology. The landscape has been designed with a variety of native woodland tree and shrub species as well as wildflower and grass meadows. A hibernacula provides a dedicated habitat for beneficial species. The building’s flat roof incorporates a wild flower meadow and, along with bat boxes fitted to the sides of the light canons, the building itself goes a long way to offsetting the ecological value of the footprint it displaced.

SUSTAINABILITY & LANDSCAPING IN KENTAnticipating the needs of the future, the architects were mindful to create a building that would easily accept change and expansion. There was always a hope that the building could at some point in the future provide changing facilities for the playing fields to the south of the village hall. The design anticipated the layout of a building being added on its southeast side. The plant room and utility connections were sized to allow this to happen as well. Additionally the external canopy would serve as a covered link to a future building potential on the west side. Along the north side of the site, the car park can be extended to meet an increased parking demand. The large light canon has a significant southwest facing pitch which the designers envisaged to allow for the future fitting of a photovoltaic (solar electric) array.

BBM and the rest of the design and client team are hopeful the Lakeview Village Hall will provide a great home and focus for neighbourhood events and parties well into the future. As part of the wider aspirations from the very beginning of the project, we hope the new facility will stimulate a sense of place and belonging to the residents of Great Easthall, be a ‘marker on the map’ in terms of architectural presence and at the same time be a good custodian of its local ecosystem and minimise environmental impacts in its use and construction.

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OAK SHAKES INSTALLED IN SITTINGBOURNE

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12/04/2017

/ BBM Architects
Site Progress

Sittingbourne, Kent

Client: Swale Borough Council

Project: New build Village/Community Hall

Access the New village hall’s website here


Further progress has been made on site this week in Sittingbourne! The oak shakes are currently being fitted to the light canons and the interior spaces are coming together. The new village hall is due to be completed next month and will be named “Lakeview Village Hall”.

The village hall is largely built out of timber. We were keen to exploit the sustainability credentials of wood as it is a grown material of minimal processing energy. With little pollution and best of all it is composed of locked carbon generated by the tree’s absorption of carbon dioxide. The timber products used in the design of this village hall include structurally insulated panels (SIPs), a glulam softwood structural frame, oak shakes on the light canons and glulam coppiced sweet chestnut external wall cladding. Coppiced sweet chestnut was a perfect choice as it is not only grown and processed within the Kent and Sussex Weald, it also pays homage to the hop poles that used the very same wood source and that were so prevalent in the landscapes around Sittingbourne. Internally, the Granwood floor blocks are formed of a wood/cement composite as are the acoustic ceiling panels.

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