Meeting at The Studios, 8 Royal Street, London SE1 7LL, a 15 min walk from Waterloo East Railway Station
Join us for a visit to the award-winning architect’s studio and the adjacent Waterloo City Farm.
The studio is designed as a demountable structure, built of a Douglas fir timber frame clad with corrugated Onduline bitumen sheets. The materials are redolent of agricultural building forms, reinterpreted for its actual purpose to house an emerging team of architects.
Waterloo City Farm is a community farm located on a previously unused strip of land adjacent to the studios. The first phase of the pro-bono scheme provided a series of timber-framed animal pens to house the farm’s pigs, sheep and chickens, a composting toilet, planting areas and two polytunnels. A large timber framed barn was built as part of the second phase to provide the farm with much-needed educational facilities.
The site, which is owned by Guy’s and St Thomas ’Hospital, has been developed as a meanwhile use and all the buildings on the site have been designed to be demountable, allowing it to be taken down and reconstructed on a new site once its time on this one comes to an end.
The visit will be led by one of the team.
Tickets £10 available from Eventbrite. Please click on the link to go directly to the booking page.
