The Savill Building, Englefield Green, Berkshire

Roof contractor: Green Oak Carpenters
Structural Engineers: Buro Happold

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	The Savill Building
Designer	Glenn Howells Architects, London, England, United Kingdom
Location	Englefield Green, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Date	2003 to 2006
Building Type	Visitors Center
Construction System	Timber, steel, and glass
Climate	Mild Temperate
Context	Park
Architectural Style	Modern
Street Address	The Royal Landscape (southeast corner of Windsor Great Park)
Notes	An undulating leaf-shaped roof of gridshell construction.

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Building Details
Client	The Crown Estate
Cost	£5M
Area	Gridshell skin: 1600 sq. m. of birch plywood
Height	Gridshell roof: 10 m.
Length	Gridshell roof: 98 m.
Width	Gridshell roof: 24 m.
Awards	Stirling Prize Nominee, 2007 Royal Institute of British Architects Design Award 2007, South.

Oak flooring from the estate's tree plantation. Roof cladding: silver-grey oak. Gridshell has a three-domed shape and a tubular-steel beam around the perimeter, stabilized by quadruped legs. The four-layer roof required more than 20 km. of timber from The Crown Estate's sustainable forest. Above this 1-meter gridshell of European larch, an aluminum roof by Keybemo provides waterproofing and support for the outermost oak rain screen.