Langley Vale Visitors Centre

The aesthetic or poetic motivation for our proposal comes firstly from its setting and use and secondly from its purpose as a tribute to those affected by WW1 and as a commerarative landmark.  We considered these two issues as indivisible.

We started with an emotional response to the landscape which is a quintissentially English, gentle, ‘green and pleasant’ context. The building must engage with this particular landscape in an appropriately gentle, sensitive and initimate manner.

The design concept is also geared by an emotional response to issues of war and memory. The design and form of our proposal and its relationship with the ground landscape and particulary with the ground plane derived from these considerations.

Our idea, specifically is to provide a discrete, simple, abtract, familiar and memorable form that will draw and inspire the public to dwell on the memory and history associated with WW1 and also provide a beautiful architectural environment to learn about the woodland and local wildlife.