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Timber community centre built alongside London's last windmill

Local architecture studio Squire & Partners has created an elongated, black community centre in a park alongside the Brixton Windmill in London.

Named the Brixton Windmill Centre, the building stands in the small Windmill Gardens park in south London next to the city's last working windmill.

Squire & Partners designed the building to complement the 200-year-old, Grade II*-listed windmill, which is still used to produce flour.

Squire & Partners designed the Brixton Windmill Centre

"The architectural aim was really to completely make the windmill comfortable," explained Tim Gledstone, partner at Squire & Partners.

"It was always an object building by the very nature of its function," he told Dezeen. "But what was strange to us is putting any buildings back into parkland is slightly against policy. However, this park exists because of the windmill."

The community centre was built in Windmill Gardens

The architecture studio designed the long, single-storey building so that it doesn't compete with the tar-sealed windmill and as a nod towards the previous buildings that surrounded the mill.

As some of these buildings were only knocked down in the 1960s, their previous locations were known to the studio and played a part in winning planning permission to build the centre in a park.

Materials and colour are taken from the windmill

"What was clear to us was that all the supporting buildings of the windmill from its original days were missing. It had the miller's housing and stores, it never operated just as that building," said Gledstone.

"We knew where the historical buildings were sited and knew from a listed-building point of view that we could argue that we were complementing the setting of this listed building with the right kind of architecture."

The community centre opens onto the park

Both the 154-square-metre education and community centre's colour and its materials make reference to the 19th-century windmill.

The building has a Douglas fir frame with the two end gable walls made from soot-washed bricks and black weatherboard used for the longer facades.

The building has a timber frame

"This is the right kind of architecture for here, it very much complements the windmill with its robust materiality," said Gledstone.

"It was designed to survive the test of time with its durability, but also be robust. It can be completely locked up at night, is secure and needs almost zero maintenance," he continued.

"Each material is true to itself and performs extremely high to itself. There are no layers of maintenance added to them. But they resonate in harmony with the windmill itself."

Its main, flexible space can be divided by rolling cupboards

Slatted-timber screens on rollers protect glass doors that open into the community centre's central flexible space.

Squire & Partners designed a series of cupboards on rollers than can be used for storage and to divide up the space that will be used by school and community groups as well as a visitor centre.

Enclosed rooms are located at each end of central space with a kitchen and office space for the charity that runs the windmill – Friends of Windmill Gardens – at one end, and a grain store, cycle parking and toilets at the other.

"It's a series of rooms that can come together, they can act as one or they can break down into a series of classrooms and work for every single generation," said Gledstone.

"It's for little toddlers coming to the playground and learning about windmills and people coming home from work and booking themselves into baking classes and learning about full-cycle sustainable foods and whole-grain wheats."

The cupboards are also used for storage

Construction of the community centre was funded by Lambeth Council as the charity had outgrown a shared building in the park and needed a dedicated space for events and to help fund the upkeep of the windmill.

"It's a Grade-II*-listed building, so it's quite a serious burden on the community and therefore a burden on the members who have to upkeep it. Obviously, it's a criminal offence not to upkeep a listed building," explained Gledstone.

"The lottery funds got it quite a long way when they got it fully refurbished, but it needs an ongoing programme to help it keep going in terms of funding its upkeep."

A kitchen is located next to the main space

Squire & Partners, which is based nearby, carried out the planning application pro bono, to allow the project to gain funding from the local council.

"They said – 'look, we've got a chicken and egg problem. The funding has been put aside, but the funding won't be released until it's got planning, but planning can't happen as no one can afford to pay for it' – so at that stage we volunteered to donate our time to help get the application done," added Gledstone.

The charity used to share a building (right) in the park

Brixton-based Squire & Partners was founded in 1976 by Michael Squire. Last year, the studio designed a community agriculture school from locally sourced materials including mud bricks, cassava render, and bamboo screens in Cambodia.

Photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

Project credits:

Architect: Squire & Partners Client: Lambeth Council End user: Friends of Windmill Gardens Cultural ambassadors: Eley Kishimoto Structure: Heyne Tillett Steel Services: Hoare Lea Cost consultant: Equals Consulting Oak frame: Carpenter Oak Contractor: Logan's Construction Bespoke joinery: Modwood

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Timber community centre built alongside London's last windmill

Local architecture studio Squire & Partners has created an elongated, black community centre in a park alongside the Brixton Windmill in London.

Named the Brixton Windmill Centre, the building stands in the small Windmill Gardens park in south London next to the city's last working windmill.

Squire & Partners designed the building to complement the 200-year-old, Grade II*-listed windmill, which is still used to produce flour.

Squire & Partners designed the Brixton Windmill Centre

"The architectural aim was really to completely make the windmill comfortable," explained Tim Gledstone, partner at Squire & Partners.

"It was always an object building by the very nature of its function," he told Dezeen. "But what was strange to us is putting any buildings back into parkland is slightly against policy. However, this park exists because of the windmill."

The community centre was built in Windmill Gardens

The architecture studio designed the long, single-storey building so that it doesn't compete with the tar-sealed windmill and as a nod towards the previous buildings that surrounded the mill.

As some of these buildings were only knocked down in the 1960s, their previous locations were known to the studio and played a part in winning planning permission to build the centre in a park.

Materials and colour are taken from the windmill

"What was clear to us was that all the supporting buildings of the windmill from its original days were missing. It had the miller's housing and stores, it never operated just as that building," said Gledstone.

"We knew where the historical buildings were sited and knew from a listed-building point of view that we could argue that we were complementing the setting of this listed building with the right kind of architecture."

The community centre opens onto the park

Both the 154-square-metre education and community centre's colour and its materials make reference to the 19th-century windmill.

The building has a Douglas fir frame with the two end gable walls made from soot-washed bricks and black weatherboard used for the longer facades.

The building has a timber frame

"This is the right kind of architecture for here, it very much complements the windmill with its robust materiality," said Gledstone.

"It was designed to survive the test of time with its durability, but also be robust. It can be completely locked up at night, is secure and needs almost zero maintenance," he continued.

"Each material is true to itself and performs extremely high to itself. There are no layers of maintenance added to them. But they resonate in harmony with the windmill itself."

Its main, flexible space can be divided by rolling cupboards

Slatted-timber screens on rollers protect glass doors that open into the community centre's central flexible space.

Squire & Partners designed a series of cupboards on rollers than can be used for storage and to divide up the space that will be used by school and community groups as well as a visitor centre.

Enclosed rooms are located at each end of central space with a kitchen and office space for the charity that runs the windmill – Friends of Windmill Gardens – at one end, and a grain store, cycle parking and toilets at the other.

"It's a series of rooms that can come together, they can act as one or they can break down into a series of classrooms and work for every single generation," said Gledstone.

"It's for little toddlers coming to the playground and learning about windmills and people coming home from work and booking themselves into baking classes and learning about full-cycle sustainable foods and whole-grain wheats."

The cupboards are also used for storage

Construction of the community centre was funded by Lambeth Council as the charity had outgrown a shared building in the park and needed a dedicated space for events and to help fund the upkeep of the windmill.

"It's a Grade-II*-listed building, so it's quite a serious burden on the community and therefore a burden on the members who have to upkeep it. Obviously, it's a criminal offence not to upkeep a listed building," explained Gledstone.

"The lottery funds got it quite a long way when they got it fully refurbished, but it needs an ongoing programme to help it keep going in terms of funding its upkeep."

A kitchen is located next to the main space

Squire & Partners, which is based nearby, carried out the planning application pro bono, to allow the project to gain funding from the local council.

"They said – 'look, we've got a chicken and egg problem. The funding has been put aside, but the funding won't be released until it's got planning, but planning can't happen as no one can afford to pay for it' – so at that stage we volunteered to donate our time to help get the application done," added Gledstone.

The charity used to share a building (right) in the park

Brixton-based Squire & Partners was founded in 1976 by Michael Squire. Last year, the studio designed a community agriculture school from locally sourced materials including mud bricks, cassava render, and bamboo screens in Cambodia.

Photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

Project credits:

Architect: Squire & Partners Client: Lambeth Council End user: Friends of Windmill Gardens Cultural ambassadors: Eley Kishimoto Structure: Heyne Tillett Steel Services: Hoare Lea Cost consultant: Equals Consulting Oak frame: Carpenter Oak Contractor: Logan's Construction Bespoke joinery: Modwood

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Timber community centre built alongside London's last windmill

Local architecture studio Squire & Partners has created an elongated, black community centre in a park alongside the Brixton Windmill in London.

Named the Brixton Windmill Centre, the building stands in the small Windmill Gardens park in south London next to the city's last working windmill.

Squire & Partners designed the building to complement the 200-year-old, Grade II*-listed windmill, which is still used to produce flour.

Squire & Partners designed the Brixton Windmill Centre

"The architectural aim was really to completely make the windmill comfortable," explained Tim Gledstone, partner at Squire & Partners.

"It was always an object building by the very nature of its function," he told Dezeen. "But what was strange to us is putting any buildings back into parkland is slightly against policy. However, this park exists because of the windmill."

The community centre was built in Windmill Gardens

The architecture studio designed the long, single-storey building so that it doesn't compete with the tar-sealed windmill and as a nod towards the previous buildings that surrounded the mill.

As some of these buildings were only knocked down in the 1960s, their previous locations were known to the studio and played a part in winning planning permission to build the centre in a park.

Materials and colour are taken from the windmill

"What was clear to us was that all the supporting buildings of the windmill from its original days were missing. It had the miller's housing and stores, it never operated just as that building," said Gledstone.

"We knew where the historical buildings were sited and knew from a listed-building point of view that we could argue that we were complementing the setting of this listed building with the right kind of architecture."

The community centre opens onto the park

Both the 154-square-metre education and community centre's colour and its materials make reference to the 19th-century windmill.

The building has a Douglas fir frame with the two end gable walls made from soot-washed bricks and black weatherboard used for the longer facades.

The building has a timber frame

"This is the right kind of architecture for here, it very much complements the windmill with its robust materiality," said Gledstone.

"It was designed to survive the test of time with its durability, but also be robust. It can be completely locked up at night, is secure and needs almost zero maintenance," he continued.

"Each material is true to itself and performs extremely high to itself. There are no layers of maintenance added to them. But they resonate in harmony with the windmill itself."

Its main, flexible space can be divided by rolling cupboards

Slatted-timber screens on rollers protect glass doors that open into the community centre's central flexible space.

Squire & Partners designed a series of cupboards on rollers than can be used for storage and to divide up the space that will be used by school and community groups as well as a visitor centre.

Enclosed rooms are located at each end of central space with a kitchen and office space for the charity that runs the windmill – Friends of Windmill Gardens – at one end, and a grain store, cycle parking and toilets at the other.

"It's a series of rooms that can come together, they can act as one or they can break down into a series of classrooms and work for every single generation," said Gledstone.

"It's for little toddlers coming to the playground and learning about windmills and people coming home from work and booking themselves into baking classes and learning about full-cycle sustainable foods and whole-grain wheats."

The cupboards are also used for storage

Construction of the community centre was funded by Lambeth Council as the charity had outgrown a shared building in the park and needed a dedicated space for events and to help fund the upkeep of the windmill.

"It's a Grade-II*-listed building, so it's quite a serious burden on the community and therefore a burden on the members who have to upkeep it. Obviously, it's a criminal offence not to upkeep a listed building," explained Gledstone.

"The lottery funds got it quite a long way when they got it fully refurbished, but it needs an ongoing programme to help it keep going in terms of funding its upkeep."

A kitchen is located next to the main space

Squire & Partners, which is based nearby, carried out the planning application pro bono, to allow the project to gain funding from the local council.

"They said – 'look, we've got a chicken and egg problem. The funding has been put aside, but the funding won't be released until it's got planning, but planning can't happen as no one can afford to pay for it' – so at that stage we volunteered to donate our time to help get the application done," added Gledstone.

The charity used to share a building (right) in the park

Brixton-based Squire & Partners was founded in 1976 by Michael Squire. Last year, the studio designed a community agriculture school from locally sourced materials including mud bricks, cassava render, and bamboo screens in Cambodia.

Photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

Project credits:

Architect: Squire & Partners Client: Lambeth Council End user: Friends of Windmill Gardens Cultural ambassadors: Eley Kishimoto Structure: Heyne Tillett Steel Services: Hoare Lea Cost consultant: Equals Consulting Oak frame: Carpenter Oak Contractor: Logan's Construction Bespoke joinery: Modwood

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Timber community centre built alongside London's last windmill

Local architecture studio Squire & Partners has created an elongated, black community centre in a park alongside the Brixton Windmill in London.

Named the Brixton Windmill Centre, the building stands in the small Windmill Gardens park in south London next to the city's last working windmill.

Squire & Partners designed the building to complement the 200-year-old, Grade II*-listed windmill, which is still used to produce flour.

Squire & Partners designed the Brixton Windmill Centre

"The architectural aim was really to completely make the windmill comfortable," explained Tim Gledstone, partner at Squire & Partners.

"It was always an object building by the very nature of its function," he told Dezeen. "But what was strange to us is putting any buildings back into parkland is slightly against policy. However, this park exists because of the windmill."

The community centre was built in Windmill Gardens

The architecture studio designed the long, single-storey building so that it doesn't compete with the tar-sealed windmill and as a nod towards the previous buildings that surrounded the mill.

As some of these buildings were only knocked down in the 1960s, their previous locations were known to the studio and played a part in winning planning permission to build the centre in a park.

Materials and colour are taken from the windmill

"What was clear to us was that all the supporting buildings of the windmill from its original days were missing. It had the miller's housing and stores, it never operated just as that building," said Gledstone.

"We knew where the historical buildings were sited and knew from a listed-building point of view that we could argue that we were complementing the setting of this listed building with the right kind of architecture."

The community centre opens onto the park

Both the 154-square-metre education and community centre's colour and its materials make reference to the 19th-century windmill.

The building has a Douglas fir frame with the two end gable walls made from soot-washed bricks and black weatherboard used for the longer facades.

The building has a timber frame

"This is the right kind of architecture for here, it very much complements the windmill with its robust materiality," said Gledstone.

"It was designed to survive the test of time with its durability, but also be robust. It can be completely locked up at night, is secure and needs almost zero maintenance," he continued.

"Each material is true to itself and performs extremely high to itself. There are no layers of maintenance added to them. But they resonate in harmony with the windmill itself."

Its main, flexible space can be divided by rolling cupboards

Slatted-timber screens on rollers protect glass doors that open into the community centre's central flexible space.

Squire & Partners designed a series of cupboards on rollers than can be used for storage and to divide up the space that will be used by school and community groups as well as a visitor centre.

Enclosed rooms are located at each end of central space with a kitchen and office space for the charity that runs the windmill – Friends of Windmill Gardens – at one end, and a grain store, cycle parking and toilets at the other.

"It's a series of rooms that can come together, they can act as one or they can break down into a series of classrooms and work for every single generation," said Gledstone.

"It's for little toddlers coming to the playground and learning about windmills and people coming home from work and booking themselves into baking classes and learning about full-cycle sustainable foods and whole-grain wheats."

The cupboards are also used for storage

Construction of the community centre was funded by Lambeth Council as the charity had outgrown a shared building in the park and needed a dedicated space for events and to help fund the upkeep of the windmill.

"It's a Grade-II*-listed building, so it's quite a serious burden on the community and therefore a burden on the members who have to upkeep it. Obviously, it's a criminal offence not to upkeep a listed building," explained Gledstone.

"The lottery funds got it quite a long way when they got it fully refurbished, but it needs an ongoing programme to help it keep going in terms of funding its upkeep."

A kitchen is located next to the main space

Squire & Partners, which is based nearby, carried out the planning application pro bono, to allow the project to gain funding from the local council.

"They said – 'look, we've got a chicken and egg problem. The funding has been put aside, but the funding won't be released until it's got planning, but planning can't happen as no one can afford to pay for it' – so at that stage we volunteered to donate our time to help get the application done," added Gledstone.

The charity used to share a building (right) in the park

Brixton-based Squire & Partners was founded in 1976 by Michael Squire. Last year, the studio designed a community agriculture school from locally sourced materials including mud bricks, cassava render, and bamboo screens in Cambodia.

Photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

Project credits:

Architect: Squire & Partners Client: Lambeth Council End user: Friends of Windmill Gardens Cultural ambassadors: Eley Kishimoto Structure: Heyne Tillett Steel Services: Hoare Lea Cost consultant: Equals Consulting Oak frame: Carpenter Oak Contractor: Logan's Construction Bespoke joinery: Modwood

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Brixton Windmill Education and Community Centre, London

Brixton Windmill Education and Community Centre, Lambeth Architecture, South London Eduction Building News

Brixton Windmill in South London

16 July 2020

Brixton Windmill Education and Community Centrel

Architecture: Squire & Partners

Location: Lambeth, South London, England, UK

Squire & Partners have completed a new Education and Community Centre adjacent to Brixton Windmill for Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG) and Lambeth Council. The centre will support activities hosted by the Grade II* listed heritage building, and secure its use for future generations.

Brixton Windmill is a Grade II* listed structure built in 1816 as a working flour mill – locally known as Ashby’s Mill after the family of millers – set within Windmill Gardens at the end of Blenheim Gardens just off Brixton Hill.

The mill ceased production in 1934, and was first opened to the public in the 1960s when the land around it was laid out as a public park. Following intermittent periods of use and neglect the windmill was restored by Lambeth Council with Heritage Lottery funding and returned to public use in 2011. Since then FoWG volunteers have opened it to visitors.

FoWG offer regular guided tours and host a programme of events for the surrounding community, including the popular Beer & Bread festival and workshops for local schools. The charity also mills Brixton Windmill flour which is used by local bakeries, restaurants and retailers and plan to run baking workshops in the new centre.

The project to design a new Education and Community centre and support the future of Brixton Windmill was introduced to the practice in 2016 by local print designers Eley Kishimoto, who were acting as cultural ambassadors in the windmill’s bi-centenary year, and created their iconic ‘Flash’ sailcloth.

Squire & Partners were asked by FoWG – the charity that promotes the Grade II* listed windmill – to design a flexible building for a range of community activities, creating a catalyst to release funding from Lambeth Council. Submitted for planning in 2016, the building was completed in July 2020.

The Education Centre will serve the local community and allow FoWG to generate funds to continue their work preserving the heritage of Brixton Windmill. In addition, the building supports the expansion of the social enterprise, which mills flour using traditional techniques.

Conceived as a simple and beautiful timber framed space, the building is designed to serve a variety of users – including school groups, adult education initiatives, community groups and local residents – and act as a platform for FoWG to showcase the historic mill and host Open Days and festivals. The main space and cafe are also able to be hired for events from birthday parties to weddings, to create revenue for FoWG.

Designs respond to the original miller’s outbuildings with a contemporary crafted pitched roof structure using a Douglas Fir frame with tapered columns, and cladding the exterior in a dark weatherboard. A series of full height bi-fold glazed doors open onto a decked terrace overlooking Windmill Gardens and the Windmill. Sliding panels with vertical slats allow light into the space, and provide security when the building is unoccupied.

The structure is book-ended by two gable walls in a soot-washed Staffordshire Blue engineered brick to reference the black painted Windmill tower. A dark grey roof is punctuated with skylights to flood the internal space with natural light.

Internally, the main space celebrates the exposed timber frame and creates a warm muted palette with an under heated pale grey screed/resin floor, ply-lined walls and suspended pendant lights. Bespoke plywood joinery defines the café serving area and a pop up shop with in-built display areas. Low level units were designed to be used in multiple ways – as tables, storage, museum/shop display or seating.

Behind the main space, a series of smaller rooms provide a grain store, kitchen, administration, cycle parking and WCs.

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Architects: Squire & Partners

Client: Lambeth Council End user: Friends of Windmill Gardens Cultural ambassadors: Eley Kishimoto Structure: Heyne Tillett Steel Services: Hoare Lea Cost Consultant: Equals Consulting Oak Frame: Carpenter Oak Contractor: Logan’s Construction Bespoke Joinery: Modwood

Photography: Jack Hobhouse

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