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Windermere Jetty Museum

A contemporary museum celebrating the heritage of boats and watercraft on Lake Windermere

Project Summary

A museum celebrating the maritime heritage of Lake Windermere, housing an internationally significant collection of historic vessels.

Client: Lakeland Arts

Location: Lake District, UK

Architect: Carmody Groarke

Area: 2,560 m²

Status: Completed 2019

Consultants

  • structural engineer: Arup
  • services engineer: Arup
  • project manager: Turner & Townsend
  • cost consultant: Turner & Townsend
  • acoustics: Arup
  • access consultant: Jane Toplis Associates
  • landscape architect: Jonathan Cook Landscape Architecture
  • wayfinding design: A Practice for Everyday Life
  • ecologist: Middlemarch Environmental
  • exhibition design: Real Studios
  • facade consultant: Montresor Partnership
  • contractor: Thomas Armstrong

Awards

  • Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize, 2021
  • RIBA National Award, 2021
  • RIBA North West Building of the Year, 2021
  • RIBA Client of the Year, 2021
  • Civic Trust National Panel Special Award, 2021
  • A+ Award, 2019
  • Royal Institute of Town Planning Award for Excellence, 2019
  • Architects' Journal Design of the Year, 2019
  • Architects' Journal Cultural Building of the Year, 2019

Features

Design Language

The design breaks down the scale of a large museum into a cluster of pitched roof forms arranged around the wet dock, aligned to the lakeshore. Extended canopies distinguish each building’s function and offer shelter within the landscape.

Materials

Oxidised copper cladding unifies all exterior surfaces and gives the museum an evolving, natural presence. Over time, the material will weather and blend into the surrounding environment.

Key Feature

Indoor and wet dock vessel displays

Key Feature

Boat conservation programme in a repurposed gravel plant

Key Feature

Clustered pitched roof design aligned to lakeshore

Key Feature

Oxidised copper façade patination

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