Senior
Architectural Systems has delivered the stunning façade package for the new
Welcome Building at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in
Surrey, working in collaboration with main contractor Buckingham Group and
supply chain partner Elite Aluminium Systems.
The
new building has transformed the entrance to the garden with its light and airy
design which has been devised by architects KSS as part of an overall
masterplan led by Fielden Clegg Bradley.
Comprising
a new shop, garden centre, restaurant and café with both indoor and outdoor
seating, the layout of the new facility is based around an open-air ‘village
square’ which provides an attractive outdoor space that can be used for special
events at the garden.
Senior’s
slim profile and thermally-enhanced SF52 aluminium curtain walling system has
been used to create the glazed façades of the new building, helping to flood
the interior space with natural light and perfectly framing the views of the
surrounding gardens.
The
sleek aluminium curtain walling system has been integrated with Senior’s
high-performance SPW501 aluminium commercial doors to provide safe and secure
access, with the versatile thermally-broken SPW600 aluminium casement windows
used throughout to provide adequate ventilation.
To
complement the natural beauty of the garden and to enhance the other materials
that have been used in the design of the building envelope, including timber
cladding, the aluminium frames of Senior’s fenestration systems were powder
coated at the company’s state of art facility at its head office in South
Yorkshire.
RHS
Wisley’s new Welcome Building was officially opened in June 2019 by gardener
and television personality Alan Titchmarsh.
