The new visitor and education centre at Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near Preston is set on a floating ‘island’ on a lake. The design, by Adam Khan Architects, won an RIBA competition and was inspired by the now-destroyed magical landscape of the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq, recorded by the anthropologist Wilfred Thesiger in the 1950s
LocationLancashire
ArchitectAdam Khan Architects
ClientBrockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve
Project TypeEducation
CollectionsZero Carbon
Structural EngineerPrice & Myers
Main ContractorBalfour Beatty Construction, Mansell Construction Services
Wood SupplierB & K Structures
Product InfoStructural Isolated Panel
Timber SpeciesEuropean whitewood, Oak, Larch
Timber ElementsFrame, Roof, Wall, Cladding
The new visitor and education centre at Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near Preston is set on a floating ‘island’ on a lake.
The design, by Adam Khan Architects, won an RIBA competition and was inspired by the now-destroyed magical landscape of the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq, recorded by the anthropologist Wilfred Thesiger in the 1950s.
Thesiger photographed the floating islands, houses and platforms, all built out of the indigenous material of the landscape – reeds.
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