Commercial · [location]
Visitor Pavilion
A public building in compressed straw — braced panels, a long clear span, and a fire rating that satisfied the commercial code.
- Type
- Public / commercial
- Fire resistance
- [REI rating]
- Structural code
- EN 1990–1998
- Completed
- [year]
The build
Commercial work is where the certificates stop being a nicety. A public building has to satisfy reaction-to-fire and resistance classification under EN 13501, structural design to the full Eurocode suite, and the national energy regulation — all of which a rendered compressed-straw assembly is tested against.
Diagonal timber bracing inside the panels carries the racking load across the long elevations. The result is a building that reads as ordinary to everyone using it and stores several tonnes of CO₂ in its walls.
The project
Photographs from the build.
Begin your build
Tell us your plot. We'll tell you what it costs.
A written specification and an honest number — no pressure, no jargon.