OmVed Gardens
A collection of timber framed buildings on a greenscape hub in North London
About
London
2024
- Architect
Smerin Architects
- Engineer
Lyons O’Neill
- Main contractor
Newtonwood
- Features
A mix of materials to create 6 distinct structures, using UK grown kiln-dried Douglas fir, larch, and larch glulam
OmVed Gardens, located in North London, is a garden, exhibition, and educational space designed to foster creativity, ecology, and sustainable practices. Carpenter Oak was commissioned to construct six distinct contemporary timber buildings as part of an enlargement of the Gardens, enabling the organisation to promote and carry out their vision and values.
The architect’s design intent was focussed on sustainability and to use British grown, thin, small section timber. Kiln dried, planed all-round Douglas fir was used for the Barn seminar and events space, the Kitchen and Sky Garden above with a connecting footbridge made with dried larch, the Seed Library and the Toilet Block and Broom staff building. The largest building, the Greenhouse, was constructed with sap-free larch glulam as the open space for this required an engineered wood to span the large volume.
Carpenter Oak’s appointment involved detailed fabrication geometry and fabrication design. Our design team managed the complex form by creating component-by-component fabrication detailing to ensure the design intent.
