INTRODUCING A PAVILION FOR DUNHAM MASSEY BY WARREN LAMPSON SUEN

Sanctuary from the Trenches...

Dunham Massey

April 1917 to January 1919 Dunham Massey Hall was the Stamford Military Hospital. Offered to the Red Cross by the family who lived here, the hospital first opened with 25 beds rising to 52 by the time peace was declared on 11 November 1918. In total 282 soldiers were treated here.
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the

from the

Dunham did become a Sanctuary Trenches for many of these

men, archive evidence suggests that some men who came with injuries had to go back out to the front or back into training once they had recovered. o mark the centenary of the

First

World War the National Trust and Imperial War Museum are embarking

on a four year programme to commemorate those who died in the conflict and the effects it had on society.

About the Project

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Manchester School of Architecture National Trust are working together on a Pavilion Project for the garden at Dunham Massey.
he and the

offsite manufacture as an exemplar architectural intervention for a public site.

he design will be a micro passive-pa- which are regularly visited by all sectors vilion, a single space structure that of the community, from the very young to

Winter Garden and grounds at Dunham Massey,

he site for this project is the

should provide shelter but also be acces- the very old, enjoying a range of activities sible and educational; it should be adapt- throughout the day and the year. able and capable of rapid prototyping and

uring

WWI,

military structures like

trenches and bunkers dominated the across

landscape

Europe. To The

protect

troops from the enemys small arms fire and artillery, trenches and bunkers were prominently constructed. cramped conditions created by trenches and bunkers made life really tough for the soldiers.

he design of the pavilion is inspired by this kind of extreme and unique condi-

tion experienced by soldiers during

WWI.

Inspirations from WWI

aking inspirations from

and trenches, the pavilion

WWI bunkers Entrenched

strength, but it also frames the view towards the sky.

The

density of the waffle

aims to resemble the cramped conditions grid is optimised that it will block any latesoldiers experienced during contemporary design.

WWI

within a rial view of the pedestrian.

This resembles the feeling of being in a trench during WWI where the only available view is upwards.
y providing the pedestrian with the unique feelsing similar to that in

s an arched tunnel in form, the pavilion is designed to be placed along

major pathway within the garden.

With

a framed waffle system, not only will it trenches, the pavilion can be used as a loreduce the materials required to build the cation for a narrative journey or exhibition pavilion without sacrificing any structural about the

WWI.

Early Design Concept

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he final design of the pavilion aims to significantly strengthen the sense of

pedestrian entering it.

To achieve this, the

two end of the pavilion is increased in size whereas the middle part is now narrower. his creates an varying experience for people walking through the pavilion. at the same time, the experience betrenches, which is not regular in

And, WWI

come much more similar to being in real form and depth.

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he whole pavilion is designed in a waffle system.

Modules can be cut by CNC machines from plywood sheets, and be assembled on site into the pavilion.
or the supply of material, a deal was agreed with

Weyerhaeuser

where

Wey-

erhaeuser will be donating

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plywood sheets.

Eucalyptus The advantage

of using this product is it can reduce the cost for the pavilion and this type of plywood product is harvested from eucalyptus and pine trees, which is sustainable.

he cost for transportation and CNC machine renting will be the major expense

of the whole project.

CNC

manufacturing

Manchester Metropolitan Universitys workshop where it cost around 10 per hour.

process will be carried out in

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Construction & Materiality

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Sanctuary, Dunham Massey

...Entrenched

Warren Lampson Suen 2013

warrenlampsonsuen@gmail.com