Images + text from Dominique Perrault
PRIORY PARK PAVILION
Reigate, UK
international competition, winning project May 2005
estimated completion June 2007
client Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, Castlefield Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0SH, UK
contact Nina Porter, Project Manager
architect Dominique Perrault Architecte, Paris, France
+ engineering Buro Happold, Bath, UK; Momentum, Bath, UK
location Priory Park, Reigate
gross floor area 350 m²
built volume 1 224 m³
building height 3,60 m
start of conceptual design 2005
construction start January 2007
estimated construction period 6 months
budget 570 000 GBP or 832 000 € excluding taxes (value 2006)
program
Visitor Center of the Priory Park, information, café, toilets and office.
design concept
The Priory Park Pavilion - transparency with(in) the context and the landscape.
The Pavilion is searching for a dialectic between the artificial and the natural. Beyond the functional spatial quality, the project brings the play between
«nature» and «culture» into a self-reflexive, «scintillating» representation.
The Pavilion positions itself at the interface of the main entrance axises of the Park, between the sunken garden and the water play, on a green
carpet in front of the monk’s way. This green carpet, consisting of different circular lawns of different species, acts as the required picnic lawn, while
offering in a further dimension the necessary grounding for the pavilion. The pavilion alone, however, is not enough. It relies on its context to develop
communication with its environment.
Images + text from Dominique Perrault by disk received 230307
Surrey buildings
World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe
Priory Park Pavilion - Dominique Perrault
Comments / photos for the Priory Park Reigate page welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk
Reigate Architecture - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt