East . Hayatsu Architects . BHSLA
The British Museum invited us to be part of their Visitor Welcome Programme Competition. The Museum faces the complex challenge of welcoming over 6 million visitors annually. The competition brief was to make the queuing and security processes more efficient and enjoyable, designing new forecourt landscapes and Visitor Welcome Pavilions for both the Great Russell Street and Montague Place entrances.
East and Hayatsu Architects, together with the landscape architects BHSLA collaborated to propose a transformation of the British Museum’s entrances into immersive, tactile landscapes. Inspired by the ancient forms of construction such as Stone Henge and Lanyon Quoit, New Visitor Welcome Pavilions used a universal language of primary architectural elements, re-imagined within a sustainable and demountable contemporary design.
The two-stage competition was organised through Greater London Authority’s architecture and urbanism public procurement framework. The shortlisted teams were Collective Cultures (OMMX + YAA Projects + Msoma Architects + Adam Nathaniel Furman) + J&L Gibbons, Periscope + Assemble, Publica + Carmody Groake, Studio Weave + Wright & Wright Architects + Webb Yates Engineers + Tom Massey Studio + Daisy Froud. Continue reading East . Hayatsu . BHSLA
